Isobel Lennart
1) Funny girl
Series
Criterion collection volume 1240
Language
English
Formats
Description
Witness the birth of a movie star as Barbra Streisand makes a screen debut for the ages in this musical spectacular. From humor to pathos, she hits every note as popular 1920s singer-comedian Fanny Brice, a young Jewish New Yorker whose spirit and supernova talent propel her to fame in the Ziegfeld Follies, but whose devotion to an unreliable gambler brings drama and heartbreak into her life.
Series
Studio classic volume 10
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true-life story of Gladys Aylward, an English missionary that led a group of children through war-torn China in the 1930's. Nominated for an Academy Award, Best Director.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005, 1959.
Language
English
Description
When one of New York's top drama critics pans a good friend's show and its leading lady's performance, war is declared by both. The reviewer, his wife, four bratty kids, and their English sheepdog move to the country, but it does not solve the reviewer's problems.
5) Funny girl
Publisher
RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Follows the early career of Fanny Brice, her rise to stardom with the Ziegfeld Follies, and her stormy romance with Nicky Arnstein.
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Even though he recently lost his job as a department-store clerk, Steve Mason buys an electric train set for a child he scarcely knows. It must be Christmas time. Robert Mitchum and Janet Leigh are warmly matched in Holiday Affair, a seasonal favorite scripted by Isobel Lennart and directed by Hope/Crosby "road movies" veteran Don Hartman. Mitchum plays Mason, helping a child who'd otherwise find disappointment under the Christmas tree. The boy's...
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A recently-unemployed man is helping a child who'd otherwise find disappointment under the Christmas tree. The boy's war-widowed mom notes the gesture, and she's drawn to the handsome stranger--but could she possibly choose a man without a job to the moneyed attorney she's been seeing?
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
On Moonlight Bay (1951, 95 min.): Tomboy Marjorie and college man Bill are lovebirds who hear wedding bells ahead but WWI rages "over there". Will harmony find this Hoosier home?
By the light of the silvery moon (1953, 100 min.): The young lovers return in a moonlit sequel to On Moonlight Bay in this remembrance of WWI-era Americana.
12) Funny girl
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A musical film that follows the early career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice.
13) Fitzwilly
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When Miss Vicki's rich father dies, her loyal butler, Claude Fitzwilliam, leads the household staff to rob from various businesses by charging goods to various wealthy people and misdirecting the shipments, all to keep Miss Vicki's standard of living.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Jerry Ryan is wandering aimlessly around New York, having given up his law career in Nebraska when his wife asked for a divorce. He meets up with Gittel Mosca, an impoverished dancer from Greenwich Village, and the two try to straighten out their lives together.
17) A holiday affair
Publisher
Westlake Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In this Christmas drama, a young widow trying to raise a son by working as a comparison shopper gets a handsome toy salesman fired, and a romantic triangle ensues.
18) Lost angel
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"A little girl named Alpha looks like a typical six-year-old. But to the professors at Pickering Institute of Child Psychology, she's an experiment: an orphan raised to be a genius. After breezy New York newsman Mike Regan interviews the prodigy and gets her thinking about life beyond ivy-clad walls, Alpha flees her 'home' for adventure. The enterprising tot tracks Mike to a boxing match and soon gets involved with his job, his love life and, maybe,...
19) A holiday affair
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In this Christmas drama, a young widow trying to raise a son by working as a comparison shopper gets a handsome toy salesman fired, and a romantic triangle ensues.
20) Skirts ahoy!
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Three women with 'man trouble' decide to enlist in the navy as WAVE officers. At training camp they experience a series of romantic misadventures.