(0)Preston Sturges
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1944.
Language
English
Description
A small-town girl goes overboard with war-time patriotic zeal and marries a soldier she's only met once. He disappears after one night, then she thinks she's pregnant... but she just can't remember her husband's name. Nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the **Academy Awards.** *"Great verbal gags and non-sequiturs, fast paced action, and a thorough irreverence for all things deemed respectable...make it a lasting delight." - Geoff Andrew, **Time...
Publisher
Universal Studio Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Lee Leander is a petty shoplifter on trial for swiping an expensive bracelet from a local jewelry store. When her trial is postponed until after New Year's, sympathetic Assistant District Attorney John Sargent bails her out of jail. Together, they find themselves falling in love when he invites her to his family's home for the holidays where she discovers the warmth and love she's never had but always wanted.
3) The lady Eve
Series
Criterion collection volume 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. Aboard a cruise liner sailing up the coast of South America, Stanwyck's conniving card sharp sets her sights on Fonda's nerdy snake researcher, who happens to be the heir to a brewery fortune. But when the con artist falls for her...
Series
Criterion collection volume 742
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Tom and Gerry, a married New York couple who are on the skids, financially and romantically. With Tom hot on her trail, Gerry takes off for Florida on a mission to solve the pair's money troubles, which she accomplishes in a highly unorthodox manner.
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Born on the day his father died a hero in WWI, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith enlists proudly when World War II begins. Although anxious to serve his country, Woodrow is quickly discharged because of his chronic hay fever. Ashamed to return to his home and his girlfriend, he takes a shipyard job while his buddies forward home his letters from the 'Pacific.'