Frances Marion
3) Emma
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Emma Thatcher becomes housekeeper to the Smith family after the mother dies giving birth to her fourth child. After the children are grown, Mr. Smith and Emma marry. Unfortunately, he dies suddenly. When it is discovered that he left everything to Emma in his will, three of the children bring a charge of murder against her.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Lady Diana Mayo is carried into the desert by an Arab chieftan, who takes one look at her and wants her, right then and there.
The son of a sheik is lured into a thieves' trap by a beautiful girl. When he escapes, he kidnaps the girl, they fall in love, and ride off into the sunset together.
6) The champ
Language
English
Description
The story of an ex-boxing champion managing to support his son while training for his comeback. He also fights a custody battle that continues until the Champ returns to the ring, where he wins--and loses.
7) Camille
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure.
8) Stella Maris
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A woman, paralyzed from birth and shielded from the world, is cured by an operation.
9) 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.
11) Stella Dallas
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Even after her marriage to well-bred Stephen Dallas ends, irrepressible Stella is determined to give their daughter the life she never had. When it comes down to her child's happiness versus her own, Stella's sacrifice is the epitome of bravery.
14) The champ
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The world looks at Billy Flynn and sees a has-been who seemingly never was, an ex-boxing champion slammed to the mat years ago by booze and gambling. But Billy's son T.J. sees what the world doesn't. He knows his flawed-but-loving father is, was and always will be The Champ"--Container.
15) Dinner at eight
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It is a vastly entertaining behind-closed-doors glimpse into the lives of the troubled and troublemaking who's who of people invited to a posh Manhattan party, is served with ample helpings of humor and melodrama. Buoyed by the success of the studio's multi-starred, multistoried Grand Hotel the year before, producer David O. Selznick aspired to something grander and found it in this George Cukor-directed adaptation of the George S. Kaufman/Edna Ferber...
Publisher
Image Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The first program in a series of 48 movies that helped change America. During the first decades of the 20th century no issue was too controversial for movies ... from prohibition to abortion, unions, atheism, the vote for women, worker safety, juvenile justice, homelessness and immigration, these films became the catalyst for social change.
Publisher
Image Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The second program in a series of 48 movies that helped change America. During the first decades of the 20th century no issue was too controversial for movies ... from prohibition to abortion, unions, atheism, the vote for women, worker safety, juvenile justice, homelessness and immigration, these films became the catalyst for social change.
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Three thousand men are crammed into cells designed to hold 1800. And with the overcrowding comes the hard-time toughness, the mess-hall ritual, the dark agony of the hole, the cigarettes as currency, the hidden shivs, the hushed voices in the yard, the scheming and desperation of men with nothing to lose. Included in this historic triple-feature set are the rarely seen French- and Spanish-language 'parallel production' versions"--Container.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Dinner at Eight: A Park Avenue snob gives a dinner party for a visiting English peer. Little does she realize that her shipping magnate husband is bankrupt and that her daughter is having an affair with an older man.
China seas: Rugged Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries. Both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancée...
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
None
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Description
In the early decades of cinema, some of the most innovative and celebrated filmmakers in America were women. Alice Guy-Blaché helped establish the basics of cinematic language, while others boldly continued its development: slapstick queen Mabel Normand (who taught Charlie Chaplin the craft of directing), action star Grace Cunard, and LGBTQ icon Alla Nazimova. Unafraid of controversy, filmmakers such as Lois Weber and Dorothy Davenport Reid tackled...