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Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
3 Blu-rays (approximately 226 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"This collection includes three 1930s classics starring screen legend Carole Lombard." - container.
Hands Across the Table (1935): "Mitchell Leisen directed this classic screwball comedy starring Carole Lombard and Fred McMurray. Regi Allen (Lombard) is a marriage-minded manicurist employed in a swanky hotel barbershop where she hopes to find herself a wealthy husband. She soon meets charming playboy Theodore Drew III, a fellow gold-digger and dedicated...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (175 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Relive the hilarious, crazy adventures of Woody Woodpecker, everyone's favorite wacky red-headed bird, in The Woody Woodpecker Screwball Collection! Created by renowned cartoonist Walter Lantz, these 25 original theatrical cartoons showcase some of the wildest antics in animation history. Newly remastered in high definition, Woody is joined by his friends including Andy Panda, Wally Walrus, and Buzz Buzzard. Featuring rare treasures including archival...
Publisher
Warner Brothers Home Video
Pub. Date
2011, 1957.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A lieutenant has a knack for PR activities like placating big shots, calming romantic waters, deflating puffed-up journalists and puffing a profane-mouthed gob into the public's eye of the perfect enlisted man.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (78 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young lady is suspected of insanity after she squanders her entire inheritance yet refuses to accept her poor financial state. Dr. Enright is the handsome doctor assigned to her case, unbeknownst to Jane. Posing as her chauffeur, he drives her out west to her rich grandmother, from whom Jane hopes to recoup her fortune. Refusing to give Jane a dime, instead her grandmother allows her to work the family's played-out gold mine. Jane's ex-boyfriend...
11) The awful truth
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this farce, Cary Grant (in the role that first defined the Cary Grant persona) and Irene Dunne exude charm, cunning, and artless affection as an urbane couple who, fed up with each other's infidelities, resolve to file for divorce. But try as they might to move on, the mischievous Jerry can't help meddling in Lucy's ill-matched engagement to a corn-fed Oklahoma businessman (Ralph Bellamy), and a mortified Lucy begins to realize that she may be...
12) Bringing up Baby
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.
13) True confession
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Helen Bartlett would never bore anyone with the truth. A chronic liar married to a struggling lawyer, the aspiring writer claims she is innocent when the cops accuse her of murder. Unable to tell if she is really telling the truth, Helen's husband pleads self-defense and manages to convince the jury. After her newfound notoriety makes them rich, a mysterious blackmailer threatens to reveal the real killer's name unless Helen pays for his silence --Container....
14) Wedding present
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (81 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After a reporter's girlfriend leaves him and becomes engaged to someone else, he decides to quit his job and try to win her back.
15) The front page
Series
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The Front Page follows hard-boiled reporter Hildy Johnson who has vowed to quit the business and marry his sweetheart. But when a political radical escapes from custody on the eve of his hanging, the reporter's room is plunged into comedic chaos, and Hildy's brash editor sees it as an opportunity to manipulate the reporter into staying." -- back of container.
16) Merrily we live
Publisher
ClassicFlix
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A novelist who got into a car accident is mistakenly assumed to be a tramp and is offered a job of a servant in the house of a philanthropist.
Series
Criterion collection volume 736
Language
English
Formats
Description
Opposites attract with magnetic force in this romantic road-trip delight, about a spoiled runaway socialite and a roguish man-of-the-people reporter who is determined to get the scoop on her scandalous disappearance. The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the...
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With this furiously witty comedy of manners, Katharine Hepburn revitalized her career and cemented her status as the era's most iconic leading lady--thanks in great part to her own shrewd orchestrations. While starring in the Philip Barry stage play The Philadelphia Story, Hepburn acquired the screen rights, handpicking her friend George Cukor to direct. The intoxicating screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart pits the formidable Philadelphia socialite...
19) The lady Eve
Series
Criterion collection volume 103
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
A trio of classy card sharks targets the socially awkward heir to brewery millions for his money, until one of them falls in love with him.
20) Easy living
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mary Smith is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she's his mistress, and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter"--Container.
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