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Andrews, Julie Andrews, Julie. Arthur, Jean Blondell, Joan Ophuls, Max Welles, Orson Williams, Esther.Summary: Eighteen of Alfred Hitchcock's early films (1926-1939), and two episodes of his television program (1955-1962). Includes 55 minutes of movie trailers spanning Hitchcock's legendary career.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ALFCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD HITSummary: 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: A man travels the Mississippi on a steamboat, making money to hire a lawyer to clear his nephew's name; upholding the law in a small southern town, Judge Billy Priest also plays matchmaker for his nephew; a country doctor upsets his small town when he has an affair with a widow; a young man's efforts to become a hero are thwarted when he joins the Armed Forces but is posted in his home town;...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JOHAndrews, 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
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SOUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SoSummary: Gypsy Esmerelda and malformed bellringer Quasimodo fall victim to the machinations of church and underworld leaders in medieval Paris.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Murder!: Based on the novel and play called Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson. It was Hitchcock's third all-talkie film. When a woman (Norah Baring) is convicted of murder, one of the men selected to serve on the murder trial jury (Herbert Marshall) believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime and takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Alfred 2010Summary: Glamorous socialite Helen Wright takes what she wants - clothes, alcohol, men - and uses them up and tosses them aside. Then she meets a brilliant young violinist, Paul Boray. But this is one toy she can't break.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HUMSummary: Set in San Francisco's Chinatown in the late 1950's. Pretty Mei Li has stowed away on a Chinese steamer with her professor father to become a mail-order bride for nightclub owner Sammy Fong. Sammy, however, is completely infatuated with saucy showgirl Linda Low, who is intent on making him jealous enough to propose to her. As Sammy sets out to assign his marriage contract (and Mei Li) to Wang...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS FLOArthur, Jean
Summary: Comedy in which the daughter of an eccentric family falls for the son of a wealthy New York family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY YOUSummary: This is the story of the growth and maturity of Magnolia, a showboat star, who falls for Gaylord Ravenal, a riverboat gambler.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The destitute, selfish Duke of Bristol persuades a lovely, unselfish American heiress to attempt a month-long trial marriage in a Scottish castle. Another mismatched couple-- his impoverished, timid bachelor pal and a shrewish, wealthy widow-- join them, and all discover their shortcomings in this comedy of manners.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ONSummary: 19th-century "folklore collectors" Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm are con artists. They perform exorcisms of "evil enchantments" (for a healthy fee) while wandering about in French-occupied Germany during the Napoleonic wars. Wilhelm is a swashbuckling cad with an answer for everything, while Jacob is a dreamer who looks at life through fairytale-tinted spectacles. When French Gen. Delatombe gets wise...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2005
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY BROOphuls, Max
Summary: After selling jewelry to surreptitiously pay down her debt, a woman's lies to her husband initiate a chain reaction of tragic misunderstandings.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EARSummary: Hoffmann is a lovelorn young man in Nuremberg who is watching his latest love, Stella, dance in the ballet. In the interval he goes to the tavern where he tells his friends the tales of the three major loves of his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA TALSummary: " ... Alfred Abel (Metropolis, Dr. Mabuse) plays Lorenz Lubota, a man obsessed with his own desires to achieve fame and wealth, who must confront the barriers of class keeping him from a woman (Lya de Putti) with whom he has had a fateful encounter."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Flicker Alley 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PHASummary: Years after being abandoned at an orphanage by her father, Gabrielle Chanel finds a job in a tailor shop where she meets, and soon begins an affair with French millionaire Etienne Balsan. Through Baron Balsan she is introduced into French society and given the opportunity to design her own style of hats. Though her career takes off, her personal life becomes more complicated when she falls in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COC RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COCWilliams, Esther.
Summary: Cynthia must choose between her wealthy husband and the soldier she loves; Maria steps in for her twin brother when he abandons the bullfighting ring; a singing soldier abandons his pre-war life for love; an Ohio schoolteacher falls in love with a Tahitian girl; Williams portrays Australian swimmer and film star Annette Kellerman; swimming star Julie Hallerton falls in love with her boss who is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ESTSummary: A bemused would-be poet gets entangled with an unctuous cemetery entrepreneur, a mom-obsessed mortician and other bizarre characters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Blondell, Joan
Summary: An ambitious man working as part of a surreal and disturbing traveling carnival sets out to become a mentalist and take over the job of someone else in the sideshow.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NIGWelles, Orson
Summary: A plain, independent-minded governess finds romance and a terrifying secret working at the home of the mysterious Mr. Rochester.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In this semi-biographical film, a famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An eccentric society girl with an equally eccentric family hires a tramp as a butler, who then teaches her that money isn't everything.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Delta Entertainment 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Andrews, Julie.
Summary: A woman singer masquerades as a man impersonating a woman in Paris, circa 1934. This brings her success in her professional life but complicates her personal life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000