Barbara Stanwyck
Language
English
Formats
Description
Journalist Elizabeth Lane is one of the country's most famous food writer. In her columns, she describes herself as a hard working farm woman, taking care of her children and being an excellent cook. But this is all lies. In reality she is an unmarried New Yorker who can't even boil an egg. The owner of the magazine she works for has decided that a heroic sailor will spend his Christmas on "her" farm. Miss Lane knows that her career is over if the...
Publisher
Image/Madacy Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Father's little dividend: In this sequel to Father of tthe Bride, newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are going to have a baby, a fact her father will have to come to grips with in this hilarious family tale.
Meet John Doe: After getting fired from the newspaper where she works, reporter Ann Mitchell takes a final pot shot at her former employer by printing a fake letter from "John Doe." In protest of society's ills, he threatens...
3) Annie Oakley
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Energetic biographical drama based on the life and legend of sharpshooter Annie Oakley and her on-off relationship with Wild Bill Hickock.
Series
Language
English
Formats
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. Barton Keyes is the wily insurance investigator who must sort things out.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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,...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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.
Language
English
Description
"Gary Cooper portrays a former baseball player whose misfortunes have changed his life. Barbara Stanwyck, a news reporter, interviews "John Doe" (Cooper). Her report falls into the hands of a crooked politician who exploits "John Doe" by making him a good will ambassador in a phony political drive, leaving Cooper on the brink of suicide. This film represents director Frank Capra at his best." -- Container.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Young, rich, bedridden Barbara Stanwyck dials a telephone number one night and overhears two men plotting the murder of an unidentified woman. She becomes frantic. Her terror is intensified by mysterious calls from an old college rival and a friend of her father. With time running out, Stanwyck pieces evidence together that leads her to suspect that it is her husband who wants her murdered.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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.
12) Clash by night
Publisher
Turner Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A party girl decides she has had enough of the wild lifestyle and returns to her childhood home, where she finds security with a new husband but soon finds herself in an affair with his best friend.
13) The lady Eve
Series
Criterion collection ; 103
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Barbara Stanwyck sizzles, Henry Fonda bumbles, and Preston Sturges runs riot in one of the all-time great screwballs, a pitch-perfect blend of comic zing and swoon worthy romance that Sturges wrote, directed, and produced." --
14) 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.
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A Christmas carol: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge has a change of heart after spirits whisk him into the past, present and future.
Christmas in Connecticut: A magazine columnist totally devoid of the homemaking skills espoused in her column needs get some fast, as her boss has invited himself and a recently returned war hero for her home for Christmas.
It happened on 5th Avenue: GI families hit by the post-World War II housing crunch take over an abandoned...
16) Titanic
Series
Language
English
Description
The story of a passionate romance aboard the doomed ocean liner Titanic, framed by an account of a present-day salvager's efforts to investigate the ruins of the ship.
17) Roustabout
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Elvis plays a bad-boy singer roaming the highways on his Japanese motorcycle.
19) The Lady Eve
Series
Criterion collection ; 103
Language
English
Description
"Barbara Stanwyck sizzles, Henry Fonda bumbles, and Preston Sturges runs riot in one of the all-time great screwballs, a pitch-perfect blend of comic zing and swoon worthy romance that Sturges wrote, directed, and produced." --