Claudette Colbert
Author
Language
English
Description
Claudette Colbert, born Émilie Chauchoin in Saint-Mande, France, (September 13, 1903 - July 30, 1996) was a French and American actress who began her career in Broadway productions during the late 1920s and progressed to films with the advent of talking pictures. With her Mid-Atlantic accent, witty dialogues, aristocratic demeanor, and flair for light comedy and emotional drama, Colbert became one of the most popular film stars of the 1930s and 1940s....
Series
Criterion collection volume 736
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
Opposites attract with magnetic force in this romantic road-trip delight, about a spoiled runaway socialite and a roguish man-of-the-people reporter who is determined to get the scoop on her scandalous disappearance. The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the...
Series
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
The Hiltons are an average family living in a Midwestern town. The father of the household has waived his 3A status and enlisted to go overseas. His wife must now act as father and mother to their two daughters and keep their father's memory alive.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
"Newspaper reporter Peter Dawes (MacMurray) and stenographer Marilyn David (Colbert), nicknamed Lynn, meet regularly on a park bench sharing popcorn along with their dreams. Their budding romance is soon threatened by a chance meeting between Marilyn and Charles Gray (Ray Milland), an English nobleman visiting America."--Set container.
Publisher
Universial Studios Hme Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Cleopatra: A stylish and lavish portrayal of the notorious Egyptian empress's love for Roman general Marc Antony. Imitation of Life: Two women struggle through financial hardship and racial prejudice to raise their daughters. Midnight: An our-of-work American showgirl gets caught up in Parisian high society. The Palm Beach story: Two sets of identical twins marry one another's sweethearts, and then are forced by financial troubles to seek more profitable...
11) Family honeymoon
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
"Though it is the first time to the altar for Grant (MacMurray), his bride Katie (Colbert) is a widow with three children and their wedding ceremony becomes a comedy of errors."--Set container.
Series
Language
English
Description
The true story of the lives of three U.S. Army nurses who leave San Francisco for their tour of duty in Hawaii in December 1941. The attack on Pearl Harbor changes their destination, and their lives. Led by Lt. Janet Davidson, the nurses are sent to Bataan, in the Philippines. Faced with untested nurses, the group quickly become battle-weary veterans. When Bataan falls, the American forces flee to the offshore island of Corregidor, where they find...
14) Boom town
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
In search of black-gold fortunes, two men will dream, scheme and team up to become rich. Things between the friends get rough, as one man steals the love of a woman from the other.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
He's a private eye on the run from a conspiracy rap in a phony murder case. She's a dizzy poet he takes hostage, and takes on the adventure of her life to track down the real killer. Naturally, despite constant peril and the PI's penchant for goofball disguises, romance blooms. Join two iconic stars in a comic world that's wacky, witty and completely wonderful.
16) Parrish
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley. His mother winds up marrying Sala's rival Judd Raike, a ruthless planter who wants to drive Sala out of business. Judd insists that Parrish learn the business from the ground up.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Edition
Full frame.
Language
English
Description
Set during the widening struggle for American independence. A newly married couple, homesteading in New York's Mohawk Valley, is driven into a nearby fort by repeated attacks from Indian tribes allied with the British.
18) Zaza
Series
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Description
An unforgettable tale of forbidden love set against the spectacular backdrop of Frances Belle Epoque. When a beautiful singer falls for a married man, she begins a journey of romance and heartbreak that takes her from humble village theaters to the dazzling lights of the grandest stage in Paris.
19) Three came home
Language
English
Description
During World War II, the Far East island of Borneo is captured by the Japanese. Based on true events this is the story of American author Agnes Newton Keith who along with her husband, a British administrator, is arrested. Their family is separated and placed into different prison camps. The camp commander takes an avid interest in the authoress, but does not intervene when she is subject to torture, starvation and humiliation at the hands of the...
20) No time for love
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Language
English
Description
A working class man falls for a sophisticated fashion photographer but things change when he loses his job and she hires him as her assistant.