Robert Osborne
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a secure radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes during WWII. Weaving interviews and clips with never-before-heard audio...
Author
Publisher
Abbeville Press
Pub. Date
©1994
Language
English
Description
Of all the thousands of achievement awards presented each year, none captures the world's imagination in the same compelling way as the Oscar. What other public ritual is more eagerly witnessed yearly by such vast numbers of devotees as Hollywood's Academy Awards ceremony? What other medium is so central a mythmaker for modern man, so prolific a source of powerful images and icons? Loved by audiences everywhere, the movies are exuberantly celebrated...
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Hardy Apples is both a practical guide and a loving tribute to the wonderful abundance and diversity of apple cultivars available to the northern gardener and orchardist. Full of tips, facts, beautiful photographs and fascinating stories about apples both popular and obscure, this volume is sure to inform and entertain in equal measure. Drawing on over 40 years of experience propagating and selling apple cultivars from his nursery in Corn Hill, New...
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English
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Walter Neff is a smooth talking insurance salesman who meets the very attractive Phyllis Dietrichson when he calls to renew her husband's automobile policy. The couple are immediately drawn to each other and have an affair. They scheme together to murder Phyllis' husband for life insurance money with a double indemnity clause. Unfortunately, all does not go as planned. Barton Keyes is the wily insurance investigator who must sort things out.
15) Network
Language
English
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A satirical look at the politics and power struggles of television executives as a network news anchorman turns the tables on the "ratings".
16) The heiress
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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
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"A frustrated city girl decides to disguise herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with handsome Major Kirby and he insists on taking her to his military academy after the train is stalled"--Container.
19) Scarface
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"One of the most influential movies of all time, the original Scarface is an exciting story of organized crime's brutal control over Chicago during the prohibition era [about] Tony Camonte, an ambitious criminal with a ruthless drive to be the city's top crime boss. This compelling tale of ambition, betrayal and revenge is a groundbreaking masterpiece that influenced all gangster films to follow."--Container.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"When New York con man Babe Stewart decides to lie low in a small town, he falls for a librarian seeking adventure and a way out of her predictable existence. Gambling on marriage, they head back to the city, where Stewart tries to hide his former life from his new bride"--Container.