Elliott Nugent
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Three-cornered moon : Considered by some to be the first screwball comedy, this film portrays a Brooklyn family as various members look for employment after Mom loses a fortune on the stock market.
Maid of Salem: An independent young woman is accused of casting evil spells by the Puritan townsfolk.
I met him in Paris: A successful designer must choose between three suitors: a creative playwright, a dashing playboy and a hometown boy.
Bluebeard's...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Just for you: Musical comedy about widower Jordan Blake, a successful Broadway producer who's not very successful as a father until a musical comedy star shows him the way.
Here comes the groom: Musical comedy about a reporter who must find a bride in five days if he wants to keep the war orphans he is eager to adopt.
Author
Language
English
Description
Ronnie Jackson (Bob Hope) is a baby photographer who fantasizes being a private eye. A baroness (Dorothy Lamour) actually mistakes him for one and asks for help locating her missing husband. This is followed by sinister doings in a gloomy mansion & sanatorium, with Peter Lorre & Lon Chaney Jr. Hope's character ends up framed for murder with every plot twist & parody of thriller cliches imaginable.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A decade after the death of an eccentric millionaire, his remaining relatives gather for the reading of the will at his abandoned mansion. Tension builds after his niece Joyce is named the sole inheritor and it is revealed that one of the other relatives will get everything if the heiress goes insane within the next 30 days. The timid Wally vows to protect Joyce who must spend the night in the haunted mansion along with her jealous relatives, a creepy...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Caught in the draft: Hope plays a gun-shy movie star who gets drafted. He pulls through and ends up a hero and wins the heart of the colonel's daughter. Give me a sailor: A comedy about mixed-up relationships. Sailors Jim and Walter Brewster are brothers in love with the same girl, Nancy, who has an ugly duckling sister, Letty. Letty agrees to help Jim win Nancy if he will help her win Walter. Jim tries, but nothing seems to work, that is until a...
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Lemon drop kid: A small-time con artist gets in over his head when he swindles a tough gangster out of some gambling profits and concocts a scheme to pay back the money by tricking his pals into collecting money for a made-up charity. Road to Rio: Two stowaways on an ocean bound ship fall for a beautiful girl under the spell of her evil aunt. Road to Bali: An unscrupulous South Sea island prince hires two vaudeville performers as pearl divers, and...
12) The male animal
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2009, 1942]
Language
English
Description
"His fangs are bared, his hackles raised, his gin bottle nearly empty. The Male Animal is out of his lair, storming battle-of-the-sexes bulwarks, skewering college athletics and speaking his mind when folks of a narrower hat size seek to stop him. Bookish Prof. Tommy Turner [is] struggling to get in touch with his man-of-action side during the weekend of the big football game, the arrival of an ex-gridiron star once, perhaps still, fancied by Turner's...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Here comes Cookie: A wealthy retiree surprises everyone by deeding his entire fortune to his ditzy daughter. But when the newly rich young woman becomes convinced the family is actually on the verge of bankruptcy, complications abound -- Six of a kind: Sharing a car on a drive to California with another couple turns into a comedy marathon -- Love in bloom: Lighthearted story of a young woman on the run from her past. Just when she thinks she's escaped...
14) 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.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Stockbroker Steve Bennett is being pressured to lie to his clients, but his better moral judgement just won't let him. So, when his boss and his partner bet him that no one can go without a falsehood in a 24-hour period, Steve takes on the challenge. He soon finds himself in the company of his boss's attractive niece as well as a conniving showgirl and some other interesting guests"--Container.
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"A decade after the death of an eccentric millionaire, his remaining relatives gather for the reading of the will at his abandoned mansion set deep in the Louisiana bayous. Tension builds after his niece Joyce is named the sole inheritor and it is revealed that one the other relatives will get everything if the heiress goes insane within the next thirty days. The timid Wally vows to protect Joyce who must spend the night in the haunted mansion along...
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Guilty hands: when a lawyer discovers that his daughter plans to wed one of his past clients, he commits a horrible act to ensure it never happens.
The mouthpiece: after a traumatic experience, a prosecutor changes his lifestyle in order to cope.
Secrets of the French police: a man tricks a French woman into posing as a Russian.
The Match King: a man rises from rags to riches but is then distracted by a beautiful woman.
Ever in my heart: a German...
18) American heroes
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Comedy, musical review and American patriotism are the themes in this four-movie collection for 1940s-1950s movie star fans.