Joan Crawford
1) Shining Hour
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
When Joan Crawford saw The Shining Hour on the Broadway stage, she pleaded with M-G-M executives to let her spread her acting wings in the film version. Ms. Crawford got her way, playing a New York siren who marries a prosperous farmer and moves to Wisconsin. There she is drawn to his handsome brother, even as she befriends the brother's selfless wife. The passionate triangle plays out in the best tradition of classic screen melodrama: glossy and...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Saloon owner Vienna battles the local townspeople headed by Emma, the local sexually repressed, lynch-happy female rancher out to frame her for a string of robberies. Johnny Logan is a guitar-strumming drifter with a dark past who was once in love with Vienna and has been offered a job in her saloon. Nicholas Ray's epic western is considered one of the most original westerns of all time. The women are far tougher than the men and some saw a bizarre...
3) Dancing lady
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An attractive dancer is rescued from jail by a rich man, who helps her to have her first big opportunity at a musical play on Broadway.
4) Chained
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (76 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A woman marries an older man in New York after flirting with an Argentine rancher on a cruise.
5) The women
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (133 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequence ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mary Haines loses her husband to ruthless Crystal Allen who is aided and abetted by Sylvia Fowler whose own spouse has taken up with another woman. In Reno, in the throes of divorce, all wage war on one another.
Pub. Date
1963, 2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lucy Harbin goes berserk when she finds her husband in bed with another woman. With her three-year-old daughter accidentally witnessing the grisly act, Lucy axes the couple to death, then spends twenty years in a mental institution for the double murder. After she is released, she moves in with her brother, his wife, and her own daughter, now age twenty-three. Her nightmare is over, or is it? When a series of axe murders suddenly occurs in the neighborhood,...
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
Language
None
Description
Diana is outwardly the hit of the party but inwardly virtuous and idealistic. Her friend Ann is thoroughly selfish and amoral. Both are attracted to Ben Black, soon-to-be millionaire. He takes Diana's flirtations with other boys as a sign of disinterest in him and marries Ann. Big mistake. Ben and Diana begin to realize their true love for each other and plan a new life together as drunken Ann falls down the stairs to her death--Imdb.com
8) Grand Hotel
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he misses the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya's pearls, but ends up stealing her heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats his lowly bookkeeper, Kringelein, but in the end it is Kringelein who holds all...
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young widow that is part of a cadre of con artists intends to steal a valuable necklace owned by one of the bluebloods. But the heist may go awry when a witty and handsome nephew of the targeted victim steals the light fingered femme's heart.
12) Humoresque
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Glamorous socialite Helen Wright takes what she wants - clothes, alcohol, men - and uses them up and tosses them aside. Then she meets a brilliant young violinist, Paul Boray. But this is one toy she can't break.
13) A woman's face
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"When Anna Holm looks at aristocratic Torsten Barring, she sees romance. When Torsten looks at her, he sees horror: a web of scar tissue that twists her face into a grotesque mask. Eager to win Torsten's love, Anna endures 12 plastic surgeries and emerges a beauty. Lovely, says Torsten, but could you do just one more favor? Murder the little boy who stands between me and a vast inheritance"--Container.
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
12 videodiscs : sound, black and white, color ; 2006
Language
English
Description
"Go back through time to the golden age of Hollywood when stars were legends and fans were legion. Sit back and relax with legendary stars, legendary movies, legendary stories and legendary performances ... you'll quickly see why this collection is named Hollywood legends"--Container.