Summary: A musical comedy film about an aspiring songwriter, four single actresses, and the staging of a new musical play on Broadway. Includes dances choreographed by Busby Berkeley.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GOLSummary: A stern lady communist comes to Paris to retrieve three wayward comrades and a Russian composer, but instead warms up to capitalist attractions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SILSummary: Struggling songwriter Dave Seville opens his home to a talented trio of chipmunks named Alvin, Simon, and Theodore. When they become overnight music sensations, a greedy record producer tries to exploit the 'boys.' Now Dave must use a little human ingenuity and a lot of 'munk mischief to get his furry family back before it's too late.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALVCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ALVSummary: Rock star John Norman Howard has noticed that his career has begun to decline. Too many years of concerts, bad managers and life on the road have made him cynical. Then he meets the innocent, pure and very talented singer Esther Hoffman. John shows Esther the way to stardom while forsaking his own career. As they fall in love, her success only makes his decline even more apparent.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STASummary: Arriving at her new college, Beca finds herself not right for any clique but somehow is muscled into one that she never would have picked on her own: alongside mean girls, sweet girls and weird girls whose only thing in common is how good they sound when they sing together. When Beca leads this a cappella singing group out of their traditional arrangements and perfect harmonies into all-new...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Entertainment 2012
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PITCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Pitch 2012Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF PiSummary: 1950, rural Alabama. It's a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis. Deep in debt, Tyrone is desperate to lure the young cotton pickers and local Army base recruits into his juke joint and away from the rival club across the way. He lays off his regular talent and hires the famous electric guitar player, Guitar Sam, for a one night only gig. When...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media Films 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HONSummary: At six, Vitus is both incredibly talented and wonderfully precocious. When it becomes evident that he has an exceptionally high IQ and can play piano like a young Mozart, expectations run high. His parents love him, his grandfather understands him, but no one knows the truth - that his real genius is in his heart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VITSummary: Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix. At least, he will be ready to race once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough, but loses it when a pretty swimming pool manager takes his mind off things. It seems he will lose both the race and the girl. His problems don't get any easier when rival Elmo Mancini, a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Pierre is a ballroom-dance instructor with courtly manners whose pupils tend to be well-heeled teenagers. Partly as a dare and partly as a joke, he is offered the job of supervising a South Bronx high school detention class, where the students regard him as a visitor from the moon. They resist him, but he fascinates them, and before long, Pierre has talked them into learning a few steps. He...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Jude is a dock worker from Liverpool who travels to the United States in the 1960s to find his estranged father. There, he falls in love with sheltered American teenager Lucy. When her brother, Max, is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, they become involved in peace activism.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ACRSummary: A dancer in a Brooklyn night club catches the eye of a magazine publisher, who sees in her potential as a future cover girl.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS COVSummary: Easter parade: Don Hewes and Nadine Hale are a dancing team, but on the day before Easter she refuses to sign a new contract with him. So he takes the next dancer he meets, Hannah Brown, as a new partner. He vows to make Hannah a success before the next Easter parade. After a while Don and Hannah are so successful that Florence Ziegfeld is interested in them. With Nadine dancing for the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRESummary: Alex Fletcher is a washed-up 80s pop star who has been reduced to working the nostalgia circuit of county fairs and amusement parks. The charismatic and talented musician gets a chance at a comeback when reigning pop diva Cora Corman invites him to write and record a duet with her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MUSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MusicSummary: 20 year old Sophie is preparing to marry at her mother's hotel on a Greek island. She has a carefree life, a loving fiancé, and great friends. She is only missing one thing: a father. By reading her mother's diary she discovers that she has three possible fathers. Sophie secretly invites all three men to the wedding in a desperate bid to discover which of them is her father. But not all goes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Rudy Veloz, a Barrio singing star determened to jump the salsa circuit and aim for big-time success in the mainstream. The rise-and-fall-and-rise storyling takes Rudy on a bumy ride through life in the fast lane: drugs, compromises, easy credit, easy women, broken promises, and shattered dreams." -- container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CROSummary: An orphan adopted by a kind hotel manager who rents rooms to down-on-their-luck entertainers lives happily enough until the owner of the hotel complains about the noise her showbiz friends make and threatens to close the hotel and send her back to the orphanage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LITSummary: A young orphan, Oliver is left to fend for himself until he is befriended by a band of young thieves who quickly train him in their craft. But Oliver is not content to be a thief for he knows that life holds great joys and true happiness cannot be stolen, but must be earned.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OSummary: As if the result of some strange mass-media fluke, the popular radio program "A Prairie Home Companion" somehow managed to survive the television age to entertain its audience every Saturday night from the stage of the historic Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn. Week after week, hangdog host G.K. serves as unflappable emcee to an amiable hodgepodge of radio-friendly acts that include the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PRASummary: Prince stars as "The Kid," a Minneapolis club musician, who struggles with both a tumultuous homelife and his own smoldering anger while taking refuge in his music and his steamy love for sultry Apollonia Kotero. Semi-autobiographical.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Purple 1984Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PUR RATED RSummary: When Kitty discovers Nick is having an affair with the sultry seductress Tula, their rocky relationship gets a whole lot rockier. Nick finds himself facing a full-scale revolt from his daughters at home, and Kitty enlists her oddball cousin Bo to track down Tula. Deals with love and hate, life and death, and romance and cigarettes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ROMSummary: In 1969, Elliot Tiber, an interior designer living in Greenwich Village, New York, has to move back upstate to help his parents run their dilapidated Catskills motel, The El Monaco. Upon hearing that a planned music and arts festival has lost its permit from the neighboring town of Wallkill, NY, Elliot calls producer Michael Lang at Woodstock Ventures to offer his family's motel to the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TAKAndrews, Julie
Summary: A young novice, uncertain about becoming a nun, becomes governess to seven children of an autocratic ex-naval captain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2015
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SOUCruise, Tom
Summary: In 1987, a small town girl travels to Los Angeles with dreams of becoming a famous singer and finds herself working at "the Bourbon Room," a popular nightclub on the Sunset Strip.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ROCCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ROCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROC RATED PG-13Martinez, Melanie
Contents: Wheels on the bus -- Class fight -- The principal -- Show & tell -- Nurse's office -- Drama club -- Strawberry Shortcake -- Lunchbox friends -- Orange juice -- Detention -- Teacher's pet -- High school sweethearts -- Recess.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019