Summary: After the death of his mother, Raju's father remarries a devious and cunning woman who gets her husband certified as mentally deranged. Raju is brought up without any education and skills, and works on the estate as a laborer. His stepmother wants him to marry an illiterate girl, so that she can continue to dominate him, but he marries Laxmi who is educated and shrewd enough to know that Raju...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shemaroo Video 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BETSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: Max Bialystock was once the king of Broadway, but now he only seems to be able to produce flops. Things turn around for Max when he's visited by the neurotic accountant Leo Bloom, who proposes a scheme tailor-made for producers who can only make flops: raise far more money than you need, then make sure the show is despised. No one will be interested in it, so you can pocket the surplus. With...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS PROSummary: Conner4Real faces a crisis of popularity after his sophomore album flops, leaving his fans, sycophants and rivals all wondering what to do when he's no longer the dopest star of all.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY POPSummary: Two squabbling, 20th-century ex-marrieds are cast as squabbling Renaissance romantics in a musical version of The taming of the shrew. On stage they fight it out and backstage they continue to clash.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KISSummary: A gentleman-gambler falls in love with a missionary, while a floating crap-game operator avoids marriage to his long-time fiancee.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000
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3 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GUYSummary: Staying true to the groundbreaking Broadway show that put a vivid urban spin on the land of Oz. Winner of seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, the original hit Broadway show became a cultural touchstone that also spawned the classic film. Here a Tony-winning creative team has brought together the imaginative acrobats of Cirque du Soleil and a cast of extraordinary singers and dancers to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS WIZSummary: Barbie heads to New York for a summer program, where she meets another Barbie Roberts and competes in the Spotlight Solo competition.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by NCircle Entertainment 2021
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD BarbieSummary: The fishermen of Cornwall are signed to Universal Records and achieve a top ten hit with their debut album of Sea Shanties.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FISCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD FISCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FiSummary: 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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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRESummary: This hilarious and high-spirited musical stars Danny Kaye as a professor of high-brow music who inadvertently becomes involved with a sensual saloon singer (Virginia Mayo) and a crooked criminal gang.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SONSummary: For me and my gal: Musical comedy about a vaudeville song-and-dance team who buck tough times and World War I on their way to success in show business.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCMSummary: Carousel: Billy Bigelow, a smooth-talking carny barker falls in love with a millworker. He wants a better life for his family, but he goes about it the wrong way and is killed during a robbery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CARSummary: Once upon a time, there lived in Denmark a young shoemaker named Hans Christian Andersen whose magical tales delighted boys and girls throughout the land. Hans one day journeys beyond the borders of his small village, across the sea and into the dazzling city of Copenhagen. There he encounters marvels and wonders beyond his wildest dreams, and finds the inspiration for some of his most...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY MUSICALS HANSummary: For Bumper, life is just a bowl of cherries. Living in New York City's Central Park, the happy-go-lucky hobo king spends his time singing and enjoying himself without a care in the world. But when he rescues a beautiful amnesiac from a park lake, his cares suddenly increase. Not only has he fallen in love with the pretty blonde, but he has also discovered she's the missing sweetheart of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HALSummary: Ariel is a fun-loving and mischievous mermaid who is enchanted with all things human. Disregarding her father's order to stay away from the world above the sea, she swims to the surface and, in a raging storm, rescues Prince Eric, the man of her dreams. Determined to be human, she strikes a bargain with the devious sea witch, Ursula, and trades her fins and beautiful voice for legs. With her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LITCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LiCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD LittleSummary: A spectacular retelling of Gaston Leroux's immortal horror tale stars Claude Rains as the masked phantom of the Paris opera house; a crazed composer who schemes to make a beautiful young soprano, the star of the opera company and wreak revenge on those who stole his music. Nelson Eddy, the heroic baritone, tries to win the affections of Foster as he tracks down the disfigured "monster" who has...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2014