Fred Astaire
Language
English
Description
Where does Santa's suit come from? Why does he slide down the chimney? Why does he live at the North Pole? The answers to all these questions and the origins of our favorite holiday traditions are revealed in this classic about Kris Kringle, the world's most famous gift-giver.
3) Funny Face
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Paris, the City of Light, shines even brighter when Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire team up, bringing their luminous starpower to this exquisite **Oscar**-nominated musical featuring songs by George and Ira Gershwin. Featuring iconic performances from two legends of the silver screen, this joyous, stylish film is sure to leave you singing and dancing. Nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the **Academy Awards**. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at...
4) Top hat
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Rogers and Astaire are caught up in a mistaken identity plot, in which Rogers assumes that Astaire is already married, and is alternatively charmed and repelled by his advances.
6) Swing time
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Fred Astaire plays a gambler intent on raising $25,000 in New York in order to marry his fiance back home. Romantic complications occur when he meets dancing teacher, Ginger Rogers. Memorable songs include "The Way you look tonight".
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
All hands on deck! In the fifth of 10 Astaire/Rogers pairings, Fred trades his top hat for a sailor's cap, Randolph Scott gets the girl, Ginger gets a tap solo, and viewers get the unending delight of seven sparkling Irving Berlin numbers. Ginger is a dancer whose former partner Fred has joined the Navy. He looks her up when he gets leave, bringing along his buddy, who catches the eye of Ginger's plain-jane sister.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Santa Claus is comin' to town!: The Burgermeister has outlawed toys from the children of Sombertown. Now, Kris Kringle will get his start as the world's most famous gift giver - Santa Claus - by struggling to bring toys and happiness to children.
The little drummer boy: An orphan drummer boy who hated humanity finds his life changed forever when he meets three wise men on route to Bethlehem.
Mister Magoo's Christmas carol: The nearsighted Mr. Magoo...
11) Easter parade
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Astaire is trying to forget ex-dance partner Miller while rising to stardom with Garland. Too good to watch just at Easter time.
12) The band wagon
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Fading movie musical star Tony Hunter, down and out in Hollywood, decides to try his luck on the Broadway stage.
13) Daddy long legs
Series
Language
English
Description
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 finally meet face-to-face two years later, romance blossoms but is complicated by Jervis's hesitance towards their age differences.
Pub. Date
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.
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire sing and dance their way into your heart in the sensational musical comedy Holiday Inn. Nominated for 3 Academy Awards, this special edition features 13 holiday songs by famed composer Irving Berlin, including White Christmas - one of the biggest-selling recordings in music history! Crosby plays a song and dance man who leaves showbiz to run an inn that is open only on holidays. Astaire plays his former partner and rival...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Birth of the Blues: (89 min., b&w) As a child, Jeff Lambert hangs out in New Orleans' Basin Street, playing hot swing on his clarinet instead of the classics his father prefers. He's inspired by an African-American group there and, some years later, at the turn of the century, sets out to form a jazz band of his own. Patterned after the story of trombonist Jack Teagarden of the Original Dixieland Jazz Group.
Blue Skies (93 min., col.): Dancing star...
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
William Gridley, an American diplomat in London, gets mixed up with his beautiful landlady, Carlye Hardwick. Gridley discovers that she is suspected of murdering her husband and fears he may be next although he has fallen in love with her. Carlye's estranged husband suddenly shows up looking for a fortune in jewels hidden in the Hardwick house. Then during an argument, Caryle accidently makes her husband as dead as everyone thinks. But a witness,...
20) On the beach
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A group of survivors attempt to live normal lives in post-apocalyptic Australia, waiting for the inevitable arrival of killer radiation.