Summary: "Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made--a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar investment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRIBeatty, Warren
Summary: When an aspiring actress is brought to Hollywood on a contract under Howard Hughes, she falls in love with her driver despite their employer's restrictions against relationships between his staff.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RUL PG-13Summary: "There is no dispute. The Warner Bros. Cartoons are the funniest animated shorts in all of film history, and its classic cartoon stars Bugs Bunny, Tweety and Sylvester, Porky Pig, The Road Runner, and Wile E. Coyote, to name but a few are the most popular of all time. This second collection of rarely seen gems - all presented here for the first time on Blu-ray - features twenty-five more titles...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A Scottish soldier is assigned the task of disarming a bomb in a small French town at the close of World War I. The townspeople have deserted the town leaving behind the inmates of the local insane asylum who embrace the soldier as their king.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KINSummary: Splendor in the grass: Two 1920s Kansas teenagers find their intense sexual feelings for each other are putting them at odds with their families and the rigid respectability of the town they live in.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE GRESummary: A switchboard operator gets caught up in the personal lives of the clients of an answering service, including that of a playboy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS BELSummary: During the carefree and fun era of the 1920s, an innocent country girl comes to the big city in search of a husband.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Home Video 2003
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Thoroughly 2003Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS THOSummary: In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a macabre universe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SORSummary: A young couple travels to a secluded island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared an extravagant menu. What they don't know is tonight's clientele have been selected for a specific reason, and they are all involved in the spectacle he intends to perform.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MENCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MENCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MenuSummary: When the clouds roll by: A wealthy young bachelor allows a pompous head-shrinker to influence his romantic pursuit of Greenwich Village artist Katherine Williams; The mollycoddle: A dandified American returns to his home in the wild west after being educated in England.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Flicker Alley 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WHESummary: Ex-lovers reunite when they both become stranded in an airport overnight. They find themselves drawn together to revisit their past to discuss what could have been and what may happen in the future.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COMEDY WHA1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WHASummary: The daughters of a cosmetic company tycoon must learn what it's like without money and hired help, when a scandal in the company forces them to work for a living, while trying to clear their late father's name.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MATSummary: Featured are a series of comic sketches about a post-nuclear London: a girl is seventeen months pregnant, a father turns into a parrot, a man becomes a chest of drawers, and another man becomes a bed sitting room.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEDSummary: "Six unemployed men, inspired by a touring group of male strippers, decide they can make a small fortune by putting on a striptease show of their ow -- with one small difference. They intend to go the "full monty" and strip completely naked! In this hilarious, heartfelt comedy, these six friends discover the inner strength to bare it all in front of the world."--Back of container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FULSummary: Tackling an extremely sensitive issue in a vibrant, humorous way, this is the story of Yehezkel and his wife Levana. Well into their 70s, they are living contented lives inside a Jerusalem retirement home. But they are shocked when their dear friend Max falls prey to an irreversible illness. Looking to escape a slow, painful death, Max asks Yehezkel for help to end his suffering.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2015
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FARSummary: "Celebrate the animation that's entertained generations! Warner Bros. commemorates their 100th anniversary with your favorite Looney Tunes stars, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester, Tweety, Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner, Foghorn Leghorn and more. The Looney Tunes Complete Platinum Collection showcases 150 theatrical shorts, from fan-favorites, one-shot classics and complete...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LOOSummary: Babo 73: The president of the United Status, who, when he isn't at the White House conducts his top-secret affairs on a deserted beach.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY UPSummary: Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen for a very specific purpose.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HUNSummary: For Marnie, high school was a horror movie, and her brother's wedding is the sequel when her archrival comes back to haunt her as his bride. It's nice girl versus mean girl in this hysterical reunion with the one person Marnie would really like to forget. And if that weren't enough, Marnie's mom reunites with her own high school nemesis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY YOUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE YOUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD YSummary: Set in England on the cusp of World War II, the final film by Ernst Lubitsch is a zany comedy of manners that sends up British class hierarchy with his famously light touch. Cluny Brown is an irrepressible heroine with a zeal for plumbing. Sent to work as a parlormaid at a stuffy country manor, she proceeds to turn the household upside down with plenty of help from Adam Belinski, an eccentric...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY CLUSummary: Beloved dog Bailey is given an instruction by his boy Ethan -- no longer a boy -- to protect Ethan's granddaughter CJ at any cost. Again, Bailey takes this command to heart, through several lives, always finding his way home no matter what.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019