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Beale, Edie 1917-2002 Beale, Edith Bouvier -1977 Birkenau (Concentration camp) Eger, Edith Eva Man-woman relationships Drama Mothers and daughters New York (State) East Hampton Biography Recluses New York (State) East Hampton Biography Talking Heads (Musical group) Television programs Tudor-Hart, Edith 1908-1973Summary: Featuring an incredible array of the greatest musicians of the '70s and early '80s. It stands alone in the history of rock n roll as the first ever late-night live concert show on TV, capturing the spirit of a time when rock was exploding in so many new, exciting directions. For nine thrilling years, The Special brought audience the very best live music from every genre, rare performances right...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MIDSummary: This Christmas sees the Doctor join forces with a masked superhero for an epic New York adventure. With brain-swapping aliens poised to attack, the Doctor and Nardole link up with an investigative reporter and a mysterious figure known only as the Ghost. Can the Doctor save Manhattan? And what will be revealed when we see behind the mask?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCSummary: The Great returns in Season Two from Golden Globe and Academy Award nominee Tony McNamara (The Favourite). Catherine finally takes the Russian throne for her own- but if she thought coup-ing her husband was difficult, it's nothing compared to the realities of liberating a country that doesn't want to be. She'll battle her court, her team, even her own mother in a bid to bring the Enlightenment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GRESummary: Portrait of the relationship between two eccentric recluses, Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and talk about their past behind the walls of their East Hampton mansion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC GRESummary: The Final Season revolves around more court machinations, complicated relationships, and coup attempts. Catherine is still in charge, meeting with peasants and nobles to get input on her quest to modernize Russia. She₂s working on bonding with Peter and their young son Paul. Meanwhile, the sidelined Peter tries his hand at "First Husband" duties like hunting and inventing new cuisines but soon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: President Truman led the nation through the end of World War II, the beginning of the Cold War, the struggle for civil rights and the creation of the United Nations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRUSummary: East Hampton, the mid-1970's: documentary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles set up camp in a decrepit mansion known as Grey Gardens, where the eccentric Edith "Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale live amid piles of trash and mounds of cats. The film becomes an instant cult classic. Fast forward to the present day: "Grey Gardens" has inspired a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BEASummary: Based on the life stories Edith "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale who are the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis. They were raised as Park Avenue débutantes, but withdrew from New York society. They took shelter at their Long Island summer home called 'Grey Gardens.' As their wealth and contact with the outside world dwindled, so did...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once and aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GREJehanne, Edith
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LOVWakefield, Tim
Summary: Explores the careers of two knuckleball pitchers and documents the difficulties and uncertainties of throwing a knuckleball.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KNUSummary: Tells the story of Newland Archer, whose engagement to an innocent socialite binds him to the codes and rituals of his upbringing. When her cousin arrives in town on a wave of scandal after separating from her husband, she ignites passions in Newland he never knew existed. Swelling with exquisite period detail, this film is an alternately heartbreaking and satirical look at the brutality of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Major Sinclair Yeates is a retired English army officer who becomes a Resident Magistrate in pre-independence West Ireland. Living in a ramshackle country house surrounded by the community's eccentric inhabitants, Major Yeates struggles to apply judicial logic in a country where the inevitable never happens, but the improbable frequently does.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV IRISummary: Delves into the world of the supernatural with six bizarre, inexplicable, and frightening ghost stories as told by some of the greatest mystery authors of all time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Vision 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHASummary: "Television's original genius. In the infancy of any medium, there will be someone who realize its potential well before anyone else. Ernie Kovacs was such a visionary, and between 1951 and 1962 he broke rules that hadn't even been made yet, creating a television "language" that is now taken for granted. ... over 13 hours of programs that span the all-too-brief but brilliant television career...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory LLC 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ERNSummary: The story of New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg's friendship with a Cambodian interpreter, Dith Pran, during the time of the 1975 Khmer Rouge revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KILSummary: Pursued by creditors, Joe swerves into a driveway of a seemingly abandoned Sunset Boulevard mansion. He finds Norma, an ex-screen queen dreaming of a dramatic comeback and her husband/servant living there. She takes a fancy to Joe and, learning that he is a scriptwriter, persuades him to help her with her comeback screenplay. Being broke he accepts. He falls in love with young script reader,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2002
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SUNSummary: Blade on the feather: Jason is a reclusive author who is visited by Daniel. Daniel is a young admirer of Jason's. After Daniel seduces Jason's daughter, dark secrets to emerge. Both men are more than they claim to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Koch Vision 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DENSummary: Comedy about a witch who was burned at the stake 300 years ago. She plans to take revenge by marrying the descendent of her persecutors and ruining his political aspirations, but doesn't count on falling in love!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY ISummary: In this classic tale of adventure, duty and honor conflict in a German prisoner-of-war camp when an aristocratic French officer becomes friends with the German commandant, a fellow aristocrat, while simultaneously cooperating in a daring escape with his French comrades, who are commoners.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A ravishing romance about three wealthy New Yorkers caught in a tragic love triangle, the ironically-titled story chronicles the grandeur and hypocrisy of high society in the 1870's"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AGESummary: Every family has its secrets. Director Peter Stephan Jungk had always known that his Austrian-born great aunt, Edith Tudor-Hart, was a talented documentary photographer. But it was not until twenty years after her death in 1973 that he learned she had led a double life, and changed the course of history. Jungk unravels what had been a well-kept secret by speaking with military historians, photo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRATalking Heads (Musical group)
Summary: A film of the Talking Heads in concert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1999