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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This story of the decades-long relationship between Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift chronicles her devotion to the troubled star through a near fatal car crash and the descent into alcoholism and addiction that effectively ended his Hollywood career.
Author
Language
English
Description
"No celebrity rivals Elizabeth Taylor's glamour and guts or her level of fame. She was the last major star to come out of the old Hollywood studio system and she is a legend known for her beauty and her magnetic screen presence in a career that spanned most of the twentieth century and nearly sixty films. But her private life was even more compelling than her Oscar-winning on-screen performances. During her seventy-nine years of rapid-fire love and...
3) Liz & Dick
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
For nearly a quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were Hollywood royalty and their fiery romance, often called the marriage of the century, was the most notorious, publicized and celebrated love affair of its day. Swarmed by paparazzi worldwide, their love affair was played out entirely in front of the media from the time they met on the set of the major motion picture Cleopatra, left their respective spouses, married and divorced,...
4) Genocide
Publisher
MulticomTV
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
GENOCIDE, an Academy Award winning documentary, takes a harrowing look at life during the Holocaust. Orson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor lend their voices to this heartbreaking historical account. **Academy Awards** Winner for Best Documentary, Features.
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1954.
Language
English
Description
Reporter Charles Wills (Van Johnson), in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth (Oscar-winner Elizabeth Taylor) following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion (Donna Reed). After he and Helen marry, Charles pursues his novelistic ambition while supporting his new bride with a job at a newspaper wire service. But when an old investment suddenly makes the family wealthy, their marriage begins to unravel...
6) Identikit
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
In what remains the most obscure, bizarre and wildly misunderstood film of her entire career - and perhaps even '70s Italian cinema - Elizabeth Taylor stars as a disturbed woman who arrives in Rome to find a city fragmented by autocratic law, leftist violence and her own increasingly unhinged mission to find the most dangerous liaison of all.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was remade in 1951 by George Stevens as A PLACE IN THE SUN. Montgomery Clift stars as George Eastman, a handsome and charming but basically aimless young man who goes to work in a factory run by a distant, wealthy relative. Feeling lonely one evening, he has a brief rendezvous with assembly-line worker Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters),...
Publisher
ClassicFlix
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In turn-of-the-century New York, stockbroker Clarence Day, Sr. runs the family household in the same manner as he does his business. He's demanding and strong-willed, insisting that every detail measure up to his satisfaction. But he' a good provider and devoted husband to his patient wife Vinnie, who tolerates her spouse2s tirades while lovingly looking after their four (red-headed) sons. After insisting that no relatives be allowed to visit, Clarence...
Publisher
Synergitic Distribution
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Recent widow, Mrs. Palfrey, moves into a London retirement hotel among an odd assortment of people. When she slips on a walk and is aided by a penniless young writer, she invites him to dine at the Claremont and plays along when the other dining guests assume he's her grandson. A friendship develops giving her a companion with whom she can talk about memories and poetry as she gives him ideas and support for his writing. But what of her actual family?...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Dowling Taylor comes this riveting chronicle of a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and calculated fall of the black elite, from Emancipation through Reconstruction to the Jim Crow Era-embodied in the experiences of an influential figure of the time, academic, entrepreneur, and political activist and black history pioneer Daniel Murray. "Brilliantly researched......
12) National Velvet
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
A determined girl and boy and a spirited thoroughbred horse join forces to attain the seemingly impossible dream of winning the Grand National Steeplechase.
13) Lassie come home
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A young boy's beloved collie is sold by his impoverished family, and makes a cross-country journey back to her original family.
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1999, c1967
Language
English
Description
Katharina, a headstrong, sharp-tongued young beauty is wooed by Petruchio, a smart but seemingly eccentric man. Her father and her sister Bianca want to marry her off, so that the gentle Bianca can wed her love, Lucentio. Kate and Petruchio fight a battle of wills but only one can be triumphant.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Chaos reigns when the beautiful daughter of a family casually announces her plans to marry. What follows is a warmly humorous story, with wedding preparations, ruffled egos and the unavoidable meeting with the prospective in-laws.
18) Cleopatra
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©1963
Language
English
Description
Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of this epic-spectacle; its opulence and sweeping grandeur have never been more glorious. Elizabeth Taylor stars as Cleopatra, the glamorous and cunning queen of Egypt. To secure her hold on power, she seduces the rulers of Rome, only to meet her match in Marc Antony, played by Richard Burton. Their passionate romance could decide the fate of the world's greatest empires.
19) Butterfield 8
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A high-class call girl in New York and a socially prominant man fall in love. However, he can't forget her past and she resents his distrust, so they battle their emotions and each other, leading to a powerful and explosive climax.
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