Cole Porter
1) De-Lovely
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 125 min.) (DVD) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An original musical portrait of American composer Cole Porter, filled with his unforgettable songs. Porter looks back on his life as if it were one of his spectacular stage shows, with the people and events of his life becoming the actors and actions onstage. Through elaborate production numbers and popular hits, Porter's elegant, excessive past comes to light - including his deeply complicated relationship with his wife, Linda Lee Porter, who was...
2) The pirate
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4in.
Language
English
Description
A Caribbean beauty, who is engaged to a local rich man, has a mad crush on the legendary pirate, Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with the beauty and to impress her, he poses as the pirate.
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (427 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Seven brides for seven brothers (1954, 102 min.): Adam is the eldest of seven brothers who goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home where she discover he has six brothers - all living in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Adam reads about the Roman capture of the Sabine women and develops an inspired solution to his...
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A backstage yarn about two hoofers, Johnny Brett and King Shaw, who are an ambitious dance team working in a dance hall for little or nothing. A mistake in names shoots King instead of Johnny into the lead of a Broadway musical. On opening night King is unable to perform due to intoxication, and Johnny is forced to perform to save his partner's reputation. The show's producers realize their mistake in identity and all is resolved.
5) Les girls
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Music by Cole Porter, winner of Best Costume Design Oscar. An entertainer's memoir chronicling her cabaret days unleashes a talons and fact-baring litigation that proves girls will be girls.
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (427 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Show boat (1951, 108 min.): When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not knowing she is pregnant.
Annie get...
7) Kiss me Kate
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two squabbling, 20th-century ex-marrieds are cast as squabbling Renaissance romantics in a musical version of The taming of the shrew. On stage they fight it out and backstage they continue to clash.
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From 1950 to 1955, every Sunday night NBC's Colgate Comedy Hour presented live musical variety television featuring the top names in vaudeville, theater, radio and film. In this 1954 production of the famed Cole Porter musical comedy 'Anything Goes,' Frank Sinatra and Ethel Mermen made their television debuts, belting out classic tunes in this blockbuster song and dance production.
"On a luxurious ocean liner, a nightclub singer helps a fellow American...
Series
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 569 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Anna and the King of Siam: Anna and her son travel to the exotic kingdom of Siam to educate the harem and children of the King. (1946).
Cole Porter's Can-can: A Parisian nightclub dancer in the nineties is sued for performing the Can Can. (1960).
Daddy long legs: Millionaire playboy Jervis Pendleton III becomes enamored with a young woman living in a French orphanage, and decides to anonymously sponsor her college education in America. When they...
11) High society
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this musical comedy, a society wedding is being arranged in Newport, Rhode Island. The beautiful Tracy Samantha Lord is to marry George Kittredge. However, Tracy's ex-husband, the songwriter C.K. Dexter-Haven, has never stopped loving her and has hopes of winning her back. A New York scandal sheet reporter and photographer arrive to cover the wedding and complicate the tangled romances.
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Hart cousins - Blossom, Harry, and Chiquita - inherit Southern plantation Magnolia Manor, which proves to be a 'termite trap' and tax liability. They decide to turn the place into a hotel for army wives and put on a show to pay bills.