Alice Brady
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Series
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English
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Description
Irene, an eccentric, wealthy Manhattanite, wins a society-ball scavenger hunt after finding a "forgotten man" -- an apparent down-and-out drifter -- at a dump. She gives him work as the family butler and soon falls head over heels for him. Her attempts to both woo Godfrey and indoctrinate him in the household's dysfunction make for a string of madcap high jinks.
Series
Criterion collection volume 320
Language
English
Description
Beginning in 1832, shows ten years in the life of Abraham Lincoln, before he became known to his nation and the world. He moves from a Kentucky cabin to Springfield, Illinois, to begin his law practice.
Series
Studio classic volume 33
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"The story centers on the O'Leary family, piioneer settlers whose eldest boys achieve notoriety and power in bustling Chicago. After Jack gets elected mayor with the help of his popular brother Dion, the two lock horns over the future of Chicago's slums. Using his cabaret singer wife as a pawn in their dispute, Dion accelerates their intense rivalry as the whole town takes sides. It is not until a massive fire wipes out all of old Chicago that the...
Publisher
The Film Detective
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Follows the madcap antics of a ditzy debutante who stumbles upon a 'forgotten man' at the city dump. Determined to help Godfrey out, she offers him work in her household and he soon becomes the perfect butler for her eccentric family. As the family's antics grow increasingly more absurd, it is only a matter of time before Godfrey's secret past is revealed.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The gay divorcee: Mimi Glossop wants a divorce so her Aunt Hortense hires a professional to play the correspondent in apparent infidelity. American dancer Guy Holden meets Mimi while visiting Brightbourne (Brighton) and she thinks he is the correspondent--www.imdb.com.
Shall we dance: A budding romance between a ballet master and a tapdancer becomes complicated when rumors surface that they're already married--www.imdb.com.
Swing time: A performer...
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Movie star Mavis Arden is bound by a contract stating that she cannot marry for five years which her press agent, Morgan strictly enforces. While on a publicity tour, their car breaks down and leaves them stuck in a boarding house full of odd characters. One in particular catches Mavis eye, the robust farmhand, Bud. Mavis seductively pursues Bud and quickly learns the ramifications of small town gossip. Mayhem mounts as police, following a tip, suspect...
Publisher
Digiview
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
My man Godfrey: A zany millionaire family invite a tramp to be their butler and find that he is richer than they are.
Life with father: Adaptation of Clarence Day's humorous autobiographical account of family life with his strong-minded father in the late 1800's.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The gay divorcee: Oscar-winner The Continental revels in precision-dance joy, Cole Porter's Night and Day sways with timeless grace, and Fred and Ginger's first top billing sets the tone for more film hits to come. Top hat: Dale Tremont confuses showman Jerry Travers with another man, and is alternately charmed and disgusted by his advances, because she thinks he's married. Shall we dance: A George and Ira Gershwin score has Fred tapping to Slap That...
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Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A delightful story of an inventive and determined young woman who will stop at nothing to get what she wants. The daughter of an unemployed musician, Patricia Cardwell, decides she will persuade conductor Leopold Stokowski to help her launch an orchestra that will employ her father and 99 other out-of-work musicians. Though faced with this seemingly impossible task, Patricia leads her unemployed orchestra to the home of the unsuspecting Stokowski...
Publisher
Treasure Box Collection
Pub. Date
[2006?]
Language
English
Description
My man Godfrey: On a scavenger hunt for a society ball, haughty Cornelia Bullock discovers Godfrey, a dirty, bum hanging around the city dump. She's looking for a "forgotten man" and Godfrey fits the bill perfectly. Hoping to win her first prize, she offers him five dollars to come along with her. However he refuses, casting her aside. Minutes later, when her lovely younger sister Irene makes the same request, an enamored Godrey accepts. The hunt...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Penny Craig is a high-spirited girl who conspires with her sisters to reunite their divorced parents. Her millionaire father, however, has plans of his own to marry a beautiful socialite. The sisters let nothing (and no one) stand in their way to break up the romance and bring their father home"--Container.
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Mae West had an inexhaustibly playful interest in language, and a rare, sometimes perplexing, and even lofty wit, spiced by low-down slang. Well before the second wave of feminism, she wrote all her own material, insisted on total control of her work, and was wildly popular for a short time, right before the Production Code lowered the boom on adult attitudes being expressed in films. She made only 12 movies, but three are first-rate, and these were...