Donald Ogden Stewart
Series
Criterion collection volume 901
Language
English
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Description
"With this furiously witty comedy of manners, Katharine Hepburn revitalized her career and cemented her status as the era's most iconic leading lady--thanks in great part to her own shrewd orchestrations. While starring in the Philip Barry stage play The Philadelphia Story, Hepburn acquired the screen rights, handpicking her friend George Cukor to direct. The intoxicating screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart pits the formidable Philadelphia socialite...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Obsessed with the desire to give his only son the best of everything, a man destroys his whole world in this riveting drama. When the boy is five, his father commits arson to pay for a vital operation. This fateful step launches a rocket-like career of business success. In the process he ruins his partner, destroys his wife's love for him and then her will to live, and finally faces jail himself for what turns out to have been an empty dream.
4) The Holiday
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Language
English
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Description
An acrobatically inclined free spirit, following a whirlwind engagement, literally tumbles into the lives of his fianče's aristocratic family, setting up a clash of values with her staid father while firing the rebellious imagination of her brash, black-sheep sister. With a sparkling surface and an undercurrent of melancholy, the film is an enchanting ode to nonconformists and pie-in-the-sky dreamers everywhere, as well as a thoughtful reflection...
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Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Virginia Marshland is a vivacious young woman from the wrong side of the tracks, whose rebellious ways fascinate small town widowed judge Cass Timberlane. He's lonely enough to believe that his stuffy friends will accept her, and their marriage. But Virginia is too spirited by play the part of a dutiful society wife for long, and soon becomes tempted by a friend of Timberlane's, a man about town who seems to offer the sophistication and adventure...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Although each is engaged to someone else, when Nickie and Terry meet aboard an ocean liner, they fall in love. After they agree to rendezvous six months later atop the Empire State Building, tragedy strikes, and the lovers' future takes an uncertain turn.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The classic love story of two people that fall in love on an ocean liner, then vow to meet at the Empire State Building six months later if their love remains. But a tragic accident prevents their rendezvous and the lovers' future takes an emotional and uncertain turn.
10) Life with father
Publisher
Madacy Entertainment Group
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of Clarence Day's humorous autobiographical account of family life with his strong-minded father in the late 1800s.
12) Love affair
Series
Publisher
Moving Picture Archive
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A French man and American woman fall in love on a ship going from Europe to New York. They plan a meeting six months later atop the Empire State Building.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
The Philadelphia story: The tale of a fault-finding, bride-to-be socialite who gets her comeuppance.
Bringing up baby: When scatter-brained heiress Katharine Hepburn meets mild-mannered museum curator Cary Grant, the results are riotous.
14) Love affair
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Michel Marnet asks true love Terry McKay for some time to prove himself worthy and they make a date to meet six months later, but a heart-breaking accident occurs to Terry on the way.
16) Marie Antoinette
Series
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of Marie Antoinette and the chaos of the French Revolution.
17) Love affair
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Language
English
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Description
"Golden-age Hollywood's humanist master Leo McCarey brings his graceful touch and relaxed naturalism to this sublime romance, one of cinema's most intoxicating tear-wringers. Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer are chic strangers who meet and fall in love aboard an ocean liner bound for New York. Though they are both involved with other people, they make a pact to reconnect six months later at the top of the Empire State Building--until the hand of fate...
18) Without love
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Pat Jamieson is a scientist working on a high-altitude oxygen mask for World War II fighter pilots. He has nowhere to conduct his research until he meets Jamie Rowan, a woman with a large empty country house. She has no hopes of marrying for love but Jamie wants to help the war effort and she likes Pat, so to satisfy the proprieties they agree on a business arrangement: a marriage of convenience and partnership. They happily work on oxygen mixes instead...
19) Smilin' through
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Language
English
Description
"John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kathleen, the 5 year old orphaned niece of Moonyean, and she quickly grows up to look just like her aunt. Kathleen meets and falls in love with a mysterious stranger from America, Kenneth Wayne. When John hears of this he is furious, and we learn that it was Kenneth's father, Jeremy, who had killed Moonyean...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Sadie McKee: story of a maid who has to choose between marrying for love or marrying for money.
Strange cargo: gritty drama of escaped cons and a dame confronting the elements and each other after a daring prison break.
A woman's face: Anna Holm, a professional blackmailer, despises herself and the world because of a disfiguring facial scar.
Flamingo Road: a tough carnival dancer is stranded in a small town and soon makes an enemy of the politically...