Ava Gardner
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Just before her death in 1990, Ava Gardner finished recording a chronicle of her life. Born to a poor farmer, she underwent a transformation to a sultry movie star. She reveals her roots and her tempestuous private life, including a long and complex friendship with Howard Hughes.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Ava Gardner was one of Hollywood's great stars during the 1940s and 1950s, an Oscar-nominated leading lady who co-starred with Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, and Humphrey Bogart, among others. Born poor in rural North Carolina, Gardner was given a Hollywood tryout thanks to a stunning photo of her displayed in a shop window. Faithfully recording Ava's reminiscences in this book, Peter Evans describes their late-night conversations when Ava, having had...
3) On the beach
Language
English
Description
Radioactive fallout from a nuclear war has wiped out the entire northern hemisphere, with the exception of Australia. With fallout expected momentarily, the Australians review their lives, establish new relationships and prepare for their tragic demise.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by MGM/UA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1996, 1954]
Language
English
Description
With extraordinary beauty, talent and grace, Spanish dancer Maria Vargas (Ava Gardner) was born to be a star. Aided by American movie director Harry Dawes (Humphrey Bogart), she attains great success and fortune in Hollywood's land of dreams. But, though she gives her all for stardom, there is one thing Maria will never compromise - her soul.
Series
Criterion collection volume 176
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Melodramatic thrillers based on the Hemingway story about two hit men and their target, who accepts his fate as though he were already dead.
9) Show boat
Language
English
Description
Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.
Author
Language
English
Description
The life of celebrated American writer Harry Street flashes back before his eyes as he lies dying from a wound suffered at the foot of Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro. As he is tended to by his traveling companion, Helen, he recalls many things: his first wife and Paris literary inspiration, Cynthia Green; his second wife, Countess Liz; and his formative years with Uncle Bill. Ernest Hemingway's classic tale was listed as one of the top ten films of...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Show boat (1951, 108 min.): When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not knowing she is pregnant. Annie get your...
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A defrocked, alcoholic, American minister becomes a tour guide, and while travelling in Mexico with a bus-load of school teachers and their 18-year old charge, becomes entangled with the girl, with a woman of eloquence and wisdom, and with an earthy and beautiful former love.
14) Show boat
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.
Series
Publisher
Island View Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The Snows of Kilimanjaro: a successful but disillusioned writer, near death from a hunting wound, recalls his amorous intrigues and experiences as hunter and world traveler.
Farewell to arms: Romance of an American ambulance driver wounded in World War I who falls in love with his nurse.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Judge Roy Bean is a self-made man who proclaims himself the law west of the Pecos, writes admiring letters to Lily Langtry, and rides into a gun-blaze of glory whooping, "For Texas and Miss Lily!". This film is the tell-tale saga of a frontier legend.
Publisher
Distributed by Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A young window dresser's problems begin when he kisses a statue of Venus, which comes to life. This Venus turns out to be the genuine article on an earthly assignment. Her presence causes everyone around her to fall in love, except for the window dresser, who is terrified of her advances toward him. The young man suddenly becomes the object of a furious employer and a jealous fiancée.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Harry Street, a frustrated author/big game hunter lies dying in the shadow of Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro, reliving his life, adventures, ambitions, frustrations ... and many loves. Wounded both in his leg and in his spirit, Street lapses in and out of consciousness while memories of his love life pass before his eyes: from the spoiled countess who sought to possess him to the one who loved but left him, taking his spark of life with her long before...
19) Bhowani Junction
Series
Pub. Date
1956.
Language
English
Description
As the British prepare to leave India, half-English, half Indian army officer Victoria Jones is forced to choose between races, allegiences and the three men she loves.
20) Lone star
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Will Texas be independent or a U.S. state? Ex-President Andrew Jackson recruits cattleman Devereaux Burke to travel through hostile Indian land, find Texas hero Sam Houston and persuade him to support annexation. In exchange, Burke will gain a contract to sell beef to U.S. forces during the war with Mexico sure to follow statehood.