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Mary Astor
4) Red dust
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When wisecracking Vantine hides away on Carson's plantation, he sizes her up as an easy target for his charm. But things change when an engineer and his beautiful wife show up and Carson writes Vantine off as nothing more than a 'cute little trick.' Now, with the two women vying for Carson's affection, a rivalry forms that soon boils over into jealousy and violence.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"William Reardon (Academy Award winner Melvyn Douglas, 1979, Best Supporting Actor, Being There) leaves his cushy job with the District Attorney to open up a private detective agency. But when things get tough, he goes back to the D.A. office, leaving his wife Sally (Academy Award nominee Joan Blondell, 1951, Best Supporting Actress, The Blue Veil) to close up the agency. When a woman comes in with what seems like an easy case, Sally takes it on herself,...
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
Stephen (Melvyn Douglas, Being There) and Edith (Mary Astor, The Maltese Falcon, 1941) are a widower and a divorcee, respectively, spending their winter at the same ski resort with their families. When a snowstorm traps the two at the resort, Stephen and Edith start falling for each other. But both Stephen's and Edith's children don't want their parents to get married again, and will do whatever it takes to keep them apart in this beguiling romantic...
Series
Preston Sturges the filmmaker collection volume V. 5
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"Money makes the world go 'round, or so Gerry (Claudette Colbert) believes when she decides to divorce her struggling husband (Joel McCrea) to support him by marrying a millionaire."
8) Dodsworth
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A middle-aged American retires and he and his wife go to Europe where they find a new set of values and relationships.
9) Fiesta
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Maria Morales goes into the bull fighting ring in order to redeem her brother's name after he flees the ring to pursue a career as a composer.
10) The great lie
Series
Bette Davis collection volume 3
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Tempestuous and ambitious concert pianist Sandra Kovac shares a bond with down-to-earth Maggie Van Allen and her little boy, Pete. Sandra's chic New York friends can't imagine what the two women have in common. What they don't know is that Pete is Sandra's son - the son of the heroic aviator both women love.
11) Midnight
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A penniless showgirl, impersonating a Hungarian countess, quickly adapts to her new lifestyle with the help of an aristocrat. But she finds herself from falling in love with yet another poor man.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In Easter parade, Don Hewes and Nadine Hale are a dancing team, but on the day before Easter she refuses to sign a new contract with him.
In Meet me in St. Louis, the well-off Smith family has four beautiful daughters, including Esther and little Tootie. The family is shocked when Mr. Smith reveals that he has been transfered to a nice position in New York.
In Singin' in the rain, Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are the darlings of the silent silver...
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The Bishop murder case: Detective Philo Vance must find a murderer who calls himself Bishop and who marks his victims with a note containing a nursery rhyme excerpt.
The Kennel murder case: Philo Vance investigates when "one of the Coe brothers is found dead in his bedroom, locked from the inside, and the other brother is found the next morning dead in the downstairs closet. There is also the clue of a wounded Doberman Pinscher, a mysteriously broken...
Series
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
In The Maltese falcon, Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed while tailing a man. The woman who asked his partner to follow the man turns out to be someone who is not what she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the 'Maltese Falcon', a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind. In Satan met a lady, Sam Spade is now PI Ted Shane,...