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Blacklisting of entertainers Drama Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Drama Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Drama Nineteen forties Drama Screenwriters Screenwriters Drama Screenwriters United States Drama West Indians England London Drama World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns England DramaSummary: Set in 1940 London, the story is an ode to how women played a major role in boosting national morale during the Blitz of London in the second World War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THESummary: Screenwriter Mark Christopher gets a Christmas present that isn't on his Santa list: a 17-year-old delinquent named Susan, deposited in his bachelor pad by a cop pal who doesn't want to see the kid spend Christmas behind bars. Touched by Susan's plight, Mark decides there's only one way to keep her out of juvie: marry her in name only and get an annulment when she comes of age. But after a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SUSSummary: Dixon Steele is an alcoholic screenwriter who has some success but is now in the midst of a long dry spell. One of his neighbors is Laurel Gray, a would-be actress and a smart cookie. Steele is a bitter, angry man who succeeds in insulting everyone he sees while drinking at noon in his usual hangout. Dix has taken a job adapting a trashy novel for the screen--but he doesn't want to read the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures Industries 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INSummary: A down on his luck screenwriter reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson, to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later the night, Mildred is found murdered and Steele, who has a history of violent behavior, becomes the prime suspect. A neighbor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A screenwriter with a three-day deadline for a script asks a secretary to help concoct ideas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Paris 1964Summary: Leonor Reyes was once a groundbreaking figure in the Filipino film industry during its ragtag action cinema glory days, but now she struggles with old age, mounting bills, and the untimely death of her son. While revisiting an unfinished script about a fearless protagonist trying to avenge his brother's murder, Leonor is struck on the head by a falling television set and knocked into a coma. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LEOSummary: A grief-stricken screenwriter unknowingly enters a three-way relationship with a woman and her film executive husband - to chilling results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DYISummary: When veteran comedy writer Charlie Burnz meets New York singer Emma Payge, they form an unlikely yet hilarious and touching friendship that kicks the generation gap aside and redefines the meaning of love and trust.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HERCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HERCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HERCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie HereSummary: Sammy Glick is a Jewish boy born in New York's Lower East Side. He decides to climb the ladder of success by any mean necessary. Through backstabbing and double-crossing, Sammy fights to become the motion picture industry's top screenwriter. A rags to riches story about the world of 1930s Hollywood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Vision 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WHANashif, Kais
Summary: When a young Palestinian man, who has never done any creative writing in his life, as a result of unlikely circumstances becomes a screenwriter for a popular soap opera, an Israeli officer at the checkpoint that he passes daily, whose wife is a big fan ofthe show, agrees to help him with the plot ideas in exchange for a promise that the series will end with a wedding, but the Palestinian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TELTurturro, John
Summary: A 1940s-era New York playwright is lured to Hollywood to work as a screenwriter, but when he becomes stuck in his writing he finds his life going out of control.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BARSummary: Mel Brooks, the comedian, director and screenwriter, has energetically avoided a documentary profile from being made, until now. He has agreed to throw himself into a new documentary about his storied career, giving American Masters exclusive interviews and complete access to his film archives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MELSummary: Marty is a struggling screenwriter who wants nothing more than to finish his script. Instead, he becomes entangled with the Los Angeles gangster underworld when his odd, but well-meaning friends kidnap a volatile gangster's shih tzu. The ordeal gives Marty all the inspiration he needs; now, he must live long enough to finish his story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SEVSummary: The successful career of 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo comes to a crushing end when he and other Hollywood figures are blacklisted for their political beliefs. It tells the story of his fight against the U.S. government and studio bosses in a war over words and freedom, which entangled everyone in Hollywood from Hedda Hopper and John Wayne to Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRUSummary: Five original films, set between 1969 and 1982, celebrate the courage and solidarity of London's West Indian community. From a group of activists taking on a seemingly hopeless battle against police persecution, to a teenager experiencing a blues party full of dance, danger and romance, they're a powerful reminder of how brave individuals can spark change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020