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Jack Benny
2) Jack Benny
Series
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Five classic episodes of the Jack Benny Show.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Carlie and Terry constitute a vaudeville team in a traveling musical show; also in the company are Eddie, the stage manager; Bonnie, a comedienne; and Polly, the wardrobe mistress. Terry's habit of constantly falling in love with the leading lady causes him to marry Daphne, a two-timing songstress. When he finds her with another man, Eddie threatens to kill himself, but his little partner reassures him that Happy days are here again, and the show...
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
An innocent angel is faced with the dubious task of destroying an all-to-indulgent Earth. Since persecution and hatred have soared out of control, Heaven sends Athanael, a trumpet player in Heaven's orchestra, to Earth to play the first four notes of the 'Judgment Day Overture.' The notes must be played precisely at midnight from a hotel rooftop to initiate Earth's annihilation. But the plans are botched when Athanael is faced with the trials and...
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The world is on the brink of war-- but the show must go on. So Joseph Tura, the Polish actor who put the ham in Hamlet, stares beyond the footlights and says, "To be or not to be... " Thus does a Warsaw theatrical troupe outwit Nazi occupiers by playing the roles of their lives.
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Charley and Jack pressure fellow student Fancourt to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Complications begin when Fancourt, in drag, becomes the love object of old Spettigue and Sir Francis Chesney.
Series
Criterion collection volume 670
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"As nervy as it is hilarious, a masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch, To Be Or Not To Be; is a Hollywood film of the boldest black humor, which went into production soon after the U.S. entered World War II. Lubitsch manages to brilliantly balance political satire, romance, slapstick, and urgent wartime suspense in a comic high-wire act that has never been equaled."--Container.
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in...