Miriam Hopkins
1) Carrie
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[1951]
Language
English
Description
Based on the Theodore Dreiser novel that publishers deemed "too immoral," William Wyler's Carrie is a power-house of human passions transformed into soul-withering frailties. As Carrie, the smalltown girl come to Chicago, Jennifer Jones "seems to have stepped out of the pages of the book" (Time). And Laurence Olivier gives one of his finest portrayals as love-doomed Hurstwood. "Olivier has always given credit to Wyler for teaching him how to act in...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Bette Davis plays established writer Kit Marlowe, whose friend Millie, a melodramatic writer of trashy novels, is envious of Kit's husband and child. The 20-year friendship endures until Kit meets an exciting new man, and their friendship is put to the test.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
It's 1864 and the Confederacy's last hope is an infusion of gold to buy war materials. The gold is available, if someone can smuggle it from a town far west of all the fighting - Virginia City, Nevada. An undercover Union officer is determined to stop a gold-laden train from rolling into Dixie.
4) The heiress
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A wealthy girl falls in love with a penniless man her father is sure only wants her for her money. When she plans to elope, her father threatens to disinherit her. Will she still go through with the marriage?
Series
Criterion collection volume 592
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"A trio of Americans in Paris who enter into a very adult 'gentleman's' agreement, in this continental pre-Code comedy freely adapted by Ben Hecht (Notorious) from a play. A risque relationship comedy and a witty take on creative pursuits, it concerns a commercial artist unable, or unwilling, to choose between the equally dashing painter and playwright she meets on a train en route to the City of Light."
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When thief Gaston Monescu meets his true love in pickpocket Lily, they embark on a scam to rob lovely perfume company executive Mariette Colet. But when Gaston becomes romantically entangled with Mme. Colet, their larcenous ruse is jeopardized and Gaston is forced to choose between two beautiful women.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Old acquaintance: Old friends Kit Marlowe and Millie Drake adopt contrasting lifestyles: Kit is a single, critically acclaimed author while married Millie writes popular pulp novels. Jezebel: A haughty headstrong Southern Belle in antebellum Louisiana loses her fiance due to her stubborn vanity and pride and vows to get him back.
10) The old maid
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Headstrong, beautiful Tina has nothing but disdain for her Aunt Charlotte. Tina does not think that her aunt has any understanding of a young girls heart, but Charlotte knows more than Tina thinks. For unloved, unlovable Aunt Charlotte is really Tina's mother, whose romance with a Civil War soldier who didn't return resulted in Tina's birth.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Loosely adapted from William Faulkner's controversial novel Sanctuary, this notorious pre-Code melodrama stars Miriam Hopkins as Temple Drake, the coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge. When a boozehound date strands her at a bootleggers' hideout, Temple is subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
13) The chase
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Focuses on a small, corrupt Texas town where a prison break exposes local secrets, lies, and violence.
14) These three
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A young student makes a false accusation against her teachers and upsets the lives of all involved.
15) Fast and loose
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A raucous, romantic comedy about a woman who can buy anything she wants ...except love. Marion Lenox is the carefree daughter of one of the wealthiest men on Long Island. When Marion abandons her family's aristocratic lifestyle for a humble car mechanic, her parents will do anything to shoot down Cupid's arrow"--Container.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Loosely adapted from William Faulkner's controversial novel Sanctuary, this notorious pre-Code melodrama stars Miriam Hopkins as Temple Drake, the coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge. When a boozehound date strands her at a bootleggers hideout, Temple is subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
17) Barbary Coast
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Mary Rutledge arrives from the East, finds her fiance dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Louis Charnalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s.
18) She loves me not
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"An uproarious comedy jam-packed with laughter and hit songs. After witnessing a mob hit, showgirl Curly Flagg hides out in the one place she knows the gangsters will never find her: the boys' dorm at Princeton University. As she adjusts to life as a "college boy" under the guidance of students Paul and Buzz, Curly quickly learns that life was much simpler when she was just running from the mob!"--Container.
19) Carrie
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A married American man deserts his successful wife and steals money from his boss. After escaping, he heads to the Big Apple.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Now, voyager: A young woman escapes the smothering influence of her wealthy and very conservative mother through the help of a psychiatrist and an ocean cruise where she finds love, helping her to become her own person.
Dark victory: The life of a fast-moving Long Island socialite skids to a stop when she discovers that she has less than a year to live.
Old acquaintance: Old friends Kit Marlowe and Millie Drake adopt contrasting lifestyles: Kit...