Gail Patrick
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Irene, an eccentric, wealthy Manhattanite, wins a society-ball scavenger hunt after finding a "forgotten man" -- an apparent down-and-out drifter -- at a dump. She gives him work as the family butler and soon falls head over heels for him. Her attempts to both woo Godfrey and indoctrinate him in the household's dysfunction make for a string of madcap high jinks.
3) Stage door
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The film depicts the fears, setbacks and daily struggles of aspiring young performers, and, for the very few, stardom and success.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Disc 1: Theodora goes wild: A small-time author whose racy bestsellers, written under a pseudonym, bring her notoriety when a New Yorker discovers her secret. Together again: The mayor's widow falls for a sculptor as he works on a statue of her late husband.
Disc 2: The doctor takes a wife: A feminist writer is forced to pretend she's married to a man whom she loathes. A night to remember: A woman and her mystery writer husband take an apartment...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In this pre-code classic, Death, intent on entering the human world for a holiday, takes the form of a prince visiting a family of wealthy soclialites and encounters all of the pleasures and pains that go with a flesh-and-blood existence.
Publisher
Digiview
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
My man Godfrey: A zany millionaire family invite a tramp to be their butler and find that he is richer than they are.
Life with father: Adaptation of Clarence Day's humorous autobiographical account of family life with his strong-minded father in the late 1800's.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Manhattan melodrama: The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Evelyn Prentice: John Prentice is a successful Manhattan defense attorney. When his wife Evelyn ends an affair, her ex-lover blackmails her and he is murdered. Another woman is accused of the crime and Evelyn begs John to defend her.
Double wedding: A bohemian painter butts heads with his girlfriend's...
9) Love crazy
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"On the night of her fourth wedding anniversary, Susan Ireland discovers her hubby Steve has been out carousing with an old flame. With the support of her overenthusiastic mother, she files for divorce, but the cunning Steve feigns insanity in order to postpone the proceedings and convince her she's got it all wrong. The plan almost works, but the trickery is turned when Susan has him committed to an asylum. Steve tries to escape and win back her...
Publisher
Treasure Box Collection
Pub. Date
[2006?]
Language
English
Description
My man Godfrey: On a scavenger hunt for a society ball, haughty Cornelia Bullock discovers Godfrey, a dirty, bum hanging around the city dump. She's looking for a "forgotten man" and Godfrey fits the bill perfectly. Hoping to win her first prize, she offers him five dollars to come along with her. However he refuses, casting her aside. Minutes later, when her lovely younger sister Irene makes the same request, an enamored Godrey accepts. The hunt...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Mr. Blandings builds his dream house: Cary Grant plays a successful New York advertising executive who wants to escape his current living situation. He decides to design his own dream house in the suburbs and the project turns wrong when the bills never end and the problems never stop.
My favorite wife: A funny thing happens to Nick on his way to his honeymoon suite. He meets his wife. No, not his bride. He meets the wife that was lost at sea seven...
12) Mad about music
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In an attempt to maintain her glamorous screen image, a famous film actress (Gail Patrick) is forced by her studio to hide her 14-year-old daughter (Deanna Durbin) in a Swiss boarding school away from the publicity-hungry press. To keep her real identity secret from the other school girls, she invents a fictitious father, claiming he is a globe-trotting big game hunter. Forced to prove his existence, she tries to coax a friendly composer (Herbert...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
My favorite wife: A funny thing happens to Nick on his way to his honeymoon suite. He meets his wife. No, not his bride. He meets the wife that was lost at sea seven years ago and presumed dead ; Mr. & Mrs. Smith: New York sophisticates David Smith and Ann Smith née Krausheimer have been lovingly and passionately married for three years, or so they believed. They are told individually that due to a technicality - an unresolved municipal and state...
14) Gallant sons
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
High school sleuths prove solving a murder is mere child's play in this fast-paced whodunit. When his gambler father is wrongly convicted of murder, Johnny is determined to prove his dad's innocence. Following a series of clues that point to the real killer, Johnny and pals decided to stage a play that will force a confession and drop the curtain on a murderer.
17) Stage door
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Stars galore shine in this nominee for 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture. A fast, witty story of aspiring actresses living at a theatrical boarding house. Based on an Edna Ferber/George S. Kaufman play, the tale was considerably rewritten for film, so much that Kaufman quipped it should be called Screen Door. What matters most to an acting hopeful is an open door. With humor and heart, this excellent movie suggests some things matter more"...
18) We were dancing
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Princess Victoria 'Vicki' Wilomirska and Baron Nicholas Eugen August Wolfgang 'Nikki' Prax are expatriate European nobles with no assets or property except their aristocratic pedigrees. They have become professional house guests at homes of socially ambitious nouveau riche Americans who want the prestige of playing hosts to these titled spongers. However, when Vicki and Nikki want to get married, they find that married royals are not in demand as...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Mad about music: The neglected daughter of a famous actress conjures up an elaborate fantasy lafe in a comedy of mistaken identity.
That certain age: A crush on an older man threatens to derail a teeaged girl's high school musical revue.
Three smart girls grow up: Now that their parents are back together, the Craig girls think life is going to be easy. It is, until Kay falls in love with Joan's fiance.
Because of him: A young woman who wants to...