Summary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KATSummary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY KILSummary: Rural England, 1865. Katherine is stifled by her loveless marriage to a bitter man twice her age, whose family are cold and unforgiving. When she embarks on a passionate affair with a young worker on her husband's estate, a force is unleashed inside her, so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LADCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LAD RATED RSummary: Darren Silverman is a guy who gets himself into a new relationship with a hottie, who is messing up a long lasting friendship between Darren and his two buddies. The buddies then decide that they need to "help" Darren with his girlfriend -- by kidnapping her and re-introducing Darren to an old high school sweetheart who is headed toward a convent life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Georgia Byrd is a department store employee who leads a life of frustrated desires. She particularly likes the bashful salesman from the outdoor furnishings department. But when she learns she only has a few weeks left to live, Georgia gathers her money, quits her job, and flies to the swank European resort she's always dreamed of visiting. Naturally, her new carelessness with money and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LaSummary: Jeremiah Johnson: Jeremiah is an American soldier who goes west to escape the Mexican War and becomes a mountain man. He is taken in by an old trapper who teaches him how to survive. After unavoidably violating an Indian burial ground, he loses his new Indian wife and their adopted child to vengeance. A vendetta between him and the Crows ruins his idyllic life as a fur trapper.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN GRESummary: The citizens of Hope Valley find the true meaning of the season with a Wishing Tree that, through the magic of the holiday, helps everyone's wishes come true. And for Elizabeth, this means having Jack back. Together they help Robert with a family problem, while Abigail, Bill and the other people from Hope Valley work together to create a special Christmas parade that warms the hearts and brings...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHESummary: Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and she as the soon-to-be widow of an inmate whose execution Hank helps conduct. In the aftermath of the execution, both lose their children to tragic deaths and they form an unlikely bond.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MONSummary: A splashy, colorful look at life under the big top that weaves the personal stories of the performers in with the spectacle and color of the circus. Includes an incredible train wreck.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: A Christmas carol: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge has a change of heart after spirits whisk him into the past, present and future.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY GRESummary: Set in 1940 London, the story is an ode to how women played a major role in boosting national morale during the Blitz of London in the second World War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THESummary: A year after his wife's passing, devoted father of two Wade Felton (Walton Goggins)--with much prodding from his concerned social circle--made a reluctant reentry into the dating pool for the first time in decades. He'd be taken aback as he learned how much his fidelity and family orientation made him the rarest of commodities to a sea of eligible women.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS Studios 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV UNISummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: On Christmas Eve, psychologist Marcia Fieldstone asks her radio audience to share their dreams for the holiday season. Eight-year-old Jonah calls in from Seattle, with a wish for his dad to find a new wife. Mom died a year-and-a-half ago. Baltimore Sun reporter Annie Reed also hears the broadcast, when Jonah's architect father Sam gets on the air. Sam talks about the magical moment he met his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Tri-Star Pictures 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SLESummary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRESummary: Dancing great Bill Williamson takes a look back on the beginnings of his career and his romance with fellow rising star Selina. Their romance is brief because Selina does not want to settle down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005