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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...
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),...
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.
10) 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.
11) 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.
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...
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.
14) 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,...
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