Jacques D'Amboise
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
“Who am I? I’m a man; an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.”
In this rich, expansive, spirited memoir, Jacques d’Amboise, one of America’s most celebrated classical dancers, and former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet for more than three decades, tells the extraordinary story of his life
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1850 Oregon, Adam, a backwoodsman and the eldest of seven brothers, goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home. Only then does Milly discover that Adam has six other brothers all living with him in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Then, after reading a story, Adam develops an idea that will create the solution to...
3) Carousel
Language
English
Description
"Billy Bigelow, a smooth-talking carny barker ... falls in love with a millworker ... As their romance unfolds, Billy is killed while committing a robbery, before the birth of his daughter. Now in heaven, years later, he returns to earth for one day to attend his daughter's high school graduation and teach her a very important lesson."--Container.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
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Seven brides for seven brothers: When the new bride of a roughneck Oregon pioneer finds she has to keep house for her husband's six rowdy brothers, she decides to groom them so that they can find brides of their own.
Viva Las Vegas; A young man comes...