Anita Loos
4) The women
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Clothing designer Mary Haines lives in a beautiful country home with her wealthy financier husband and their 11-year-old daughter. Her best friend Sylvie Fowler is the editor at a prominent fashion magazine. The women dictate the latest trends in taste and style for New York City fashionistas. When Mary's husband becomes involved with perfume salesgirl Crystal Allen at Saks Fifth Avenue, her friendship with Sylvie is put to the test. Everyone in their...
6) The women
Language
English
Description
Mary Haines (Norma Shearer) loses her husband to ruthless Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford) who is aided and abetted by Sylvia Fowler (Rosalind Russell) whose own spouse has taken up with another woman. In Reno, in the throes of divorce, all wage war on one another.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
To Edna Gladney, founder of the Texas Children's home and Aid Society, every abandoned child deserves the miracle of a loving home. Edna's devotion echoes today as she declares, "There are no illegitimate babies-- only illegitimate parents."
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
First, Jenny was orphaned by the 1906 earthquake and fire and has gone on to become the madame of a prosperous bawdy house. After putting her son up for adoption, he becomes a district attorney dedicated to closing down such houses. She kills an underling who wants her son dead and is now facing execution. Last, A mistaken arrest, a prison term, and lack of employment leads to a young woman's involvement with gangsters. In a brothel she meets a wealthy...
12) Hold your man
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Ruby is a cynical blonde who is not above swindling her dates. When con man Eddie Hall barges into her life, Ruby knows she's met her soul mate. She and Eddie set about a partnership in small-time crime but a routine scheme goes bad, and Ruby ends up in a reformatory. In every kind of trouble, she's sure Eddie has deserted her. But she's changed him in ways she never suspected"--Container.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Eadie's not easy, but she'll get her man! ... Just point her in the direction of New York's millionaires! Fresh from Missouri, plucky and ambitious Eadie Chapman ... intends to bag a rich hubby without abandoning her virtue. Just act like a lady, she tells gal pal and fellow huntress Kitty ... at a swanky soirée. 'If they wanted ladies, ' Kitty says, 'they'd be home with their wives.'"--Container.
15) Riffraff
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A fisherman and a cannery worker fall in love, but their life thereafter is hardly idyllic.
16) The women
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Mary Haines (Norma Shearer) loses her husband to ruthless Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford) who is aided and abetted by Sylvia Fowler (Rosalind Russell) whose own spouse has taken up with another woman. In Reno, in the throes of divorce, all wage war on one another.
20) Susan and God
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Wealthy, impulsive Susan Trexel undergoes a religious conversion, one undoubtedly destined to last as long as this season's hemline length. In the meantime, Susan insists everyone around her - including her neglected husband and child - alter their lives (and loves) to conform to her latest whim.