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Barbara Stanwyck
Series
Classic holiday DVD collection volume 1
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A famous Smart housekeeping columnist writes about living on a farm, raising her children and being a good cook. In reality she is an unmarried New Yorker who can't boil an egg. When her boss says he's coming to spend Christmas with her, and is bringing a recently returned war hero with him, her job is on the line.
2) Ball of Fire
Language
English
Formats
Description
A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia encounter a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover. Nominated for 4 **Academy Awards**.
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Walter Neff is a smooth talking insurance salesman who meets the very attractive Phyllis Dietrichson when he calls to renew her husband's automobile policy. The couple are immediately drawn to each other and have an affair. They scheme together to murder Phyllis' husband for life insurance money with a double indemnity clause. Unfortunately, all does not go as planned.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Internes can't take money: A desperate woman must turn to Dr. Kildare for help getting her child back from gangsters.
The great man's lady: a reflective 100-year old woman looks back on her life and how her sacrifice helped her husband become one of the nation's greatest men.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
All I desire: An aging stage actress returns to the small hometown and the family she abandoned ten years earlier, and new scandals erupt and old ones resurface.
There's always tomorrow: An unlucky-in-love fashion designer must decide whether or not to succumb to her feelings for a married man.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Karen Duncan, a famous concert pianist is living her dream until she's stricken with tuberculosis. She's sent to Swiss sanatorium to rest, unaware her illness is terminal. There she falls for her caretaker, Dr. Anthony Stanton, who has trouble getting her to face the seriousness of the condition. With the help of her neighbor, Karen rebels against Dr. Stanton's strict rules and eventually meets a dashing racecar driver. Soon, Karen is sneaking out...
Pub. Date
1938.
Language
English
Description
Madcap heiress and debutante pals solve a murder mystery in spite of disappearing corpses, official disbelief and a newspaperman who claims it is just another of the "mad Miss Manton's" silly hoaxes. In the end, the heiress and the newspaperman fall in love.
10) Ball of fire
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Realizing they have to hear how real people talk, a group of lexicographers end up assisting a beautiful singer get away from the mob.
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.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Victoria Barkley is the matriarch of one of the most power families in 1870s California, controlling cattle herds, gold mines, citrus groves, and logging camps. Along with her close-knit brood, Victoria must perserve through the trials and tribulations of the Old West"--Container.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Victoria Barkley is the matriarch of one of the most power families in 1870s California, controlling cattle herds, gold mines, citrus groves, and logging camps. Along with her close-knit brood, Victoria must perserve through the trials and tribulations of the Old West"--Container.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Classy shoplifter Lee Leander, on trial for swiping a diamond bracelet, has her case postponed by Assistant District Attorney John Sargent until after Christmas. Taking pity on her, he bails her out of jail. He's driving home to Indiana for the holidays, and when he finds Lee's a Hoosier too, offers to drop her at her mother's on the way. When she's rejected by her mother, he brings her home to his place where his mother, his aunt and their farmhand,...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Fighting caravans: Clint Belmet convinces French-born Felice into posing as his wife to help him evade a misdemeanor jail term. Clint joins a wagon train heading for California, taking Felice with him, and begins to fall in love with the girl.
A farewell to arms: An American officer in the Italian ambulance corps falls in love with an English Red Cross nurse.
Meet John Doe: A genial homeless unemployed baseball pitcher is hoaxed into protesting...
16) Titanic
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Determined to remove her family from the superficial, high-society world in which her husband Richard (Clifton Webb) in engrossed, Julia Sturges (Barbara Stanwyck) boards the R.M.S. Titanic in England on its maiden voyage to America, along with her two children. Learning of her plans, however, Richard purchases a steerage ticket aboard the ship in hopes of reconciling with his family. But when fate, ice and an overzealous ship captain step in, the...
17) The Lady Eve
Series
Preston Sturges the filmmaker collection volume V. 3
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"It's the ultimate battle of the sexes when a wealthy heir (Henry Fonda) falls (literally!) for a con woman (Barbara Stanwyck) with a shady past."
18) The violent men
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A large sprawling western drama about a ruthless land baron who loses his grip on things due to violent forces opposing him.
19) The big valley
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The Barkleys are the wealthiest and most powerful family in California's San Joaquin Valley in the 1870s, owning and controlling cattle herds, gold mines, citrus groves, and logging camps. Follow their joys and heartache in this Western soap opera.
20) Stella Dallas
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Stella, an uncouth, lower-class woman, marries wealthy, well-bred Stephen Dallas to escape her poor surroundings. When their class differences lead to divorce, she undergoes a self-sacrificing struggle to give their daughter a better life, away from her damaging influence.