Ava Gardner
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Just before her death in 1990, Ava Gardner finished recording a chronicle of her life. Born to a poor farmer, she underwent a transformation to a sultry movie star. She reveals her roots and her tempestuous private life, including a long and complex friendship with Howard Hughes.
Publisher
Madacy Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Made for each other: Newlyweds John and Jane Mason face an uphill struggle. They are plagued by money problems and to top it all off, their baby son is sick and can only be saved by a serum that must be flown from Salt Lake City to New York - in a snowstorm. Through all the trumoil, their love never falters, proving that they were indeed made for each other." --
"Snows of Kilimanjaro: Writer Harry Street has been gravely wounded in an African hunting...
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Seven brides for seven brothers (1954, 102 min.): Adam is the eldest of seven brothers who goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home where she discover he has six brothers - all living in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Adam reads about the Roman capture of the Sabine women and develops an inspired solution to his...
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
With extraordinary beauty, talent and grace, Spanish dancer Maria Vargas (Ava Gardner) was born to be a star. Aided by American movie director Harry Dawes (Humphrey Bogart), she attains great success and fortune in Hollywood's land of dreams. But, though she gives her all for stardom, there is one thing Maria will never compromise - her soul.
7) On the beach
Series
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
When the entire Northern hemisphere is destroyed in an atomic war, the residents of Melbourne, Australia, realize that it is only time keeping them safe before a cloud of radioactive materials reaches their part of the world too.
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A defrocked, alcoholic, American minister becomes a tour guide, and while travelling in Mexico with a bus-load of school teachers and their 18-year old charge, becomes entangled with the girl, with a woman of eloquence and wisdom, and with an earthy and beautiful former love.
11) The Sentinel
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A beautiful model learns that the New York City brownstone where she rents an apartment guards the gateway into hell.
Series
Criterion collection ; 176
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Melodramatic thriller based on the Hemingway story about two hit men who become curious about the life and death of the man they were hired to kill.
14) Mogambo
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Clark Gable portrays Victor, a safari guide, in this remake of Gable's 1932 Red Dust. Ava Gardner plays tough-hided, vulnerable Eloise, and Grace Kelly is the prim anthropologist's wife who catches Victor's roving eye.
Series
Publisher
Entertainment One Film
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Cohen Media Group is proud to present a new restoration of the timeless romance based on the legend of the Flying Dutchman. At a Costa Brava port in the 1930s, singer Pandora meets the dashing but doomed yachtsman Captain Hendrik van der Zee, who falls under the spell and pushes her to commit an ultimate act of love. This delirious, gorgeous romantic drama reveals Lewin to be one of mid-century cinema's greatest stylists." --
17) Earthquake
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
When the most catastrophic earthquake of all time rips through Southern California, it levels Los Angeles and sends shock waves through the lives of all who live there.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
At noon, on October 25, the Transcontinental Express left Geneva Station with almost a thousand people aboard. Their destination: Basel, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and Stockholm. A thrilling adventure ensues as top-secret American military authorities struggle to thwart a highly contagious bacteria carried by one of the train's passengers
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The story of Arthur Pendragon, King of all England, whose reign and company of knights are dedicated to the ideals of peace, justice, and chivalry. Lancelot, the king's favorite knight, and his beautiful Queen Guinevere are torn between their secret love for each other and their loyalty to Arthur.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Judge Roy Bean is a self-made man who proclaims himself the law west of the Pecos, writes admiring letters to Lily Langtry, and rides into a gun-blaze of glory whooping, "For Texas and Miss Lily!". This film is the tell-tale saga of a frontier legend.