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1) Master class
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
62 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
2) Soul men
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Louis and Floyd are two former backup soul singers who have not spoken to each other in 20 years. They reluctantly agree to travel across the country together to a reunion concert to honor their recently deceased lead singer. Cleo is a beautiful young woman who is believed to be Floyd's daughter. She accompanies them as their new singer.
3) Romance
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Remastered edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (76 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This tale of a woman whose tender relationship with the younger clergyman is crushed by her remorse over her illicit affair with a wealthy man. Suffused with glamour and ardent emotion.
6) Whitney
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
The headline-making relationship between iconic singer, actress, producer, model Whitney Houston and singer-songwriter Bobby Brown, from the time they first met to their tumultuous marriage. This biopic is a testament of love, triumph, and the overwhelming rewards and deadly cost of fame and fortune.
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A newly divorced woman is consumed by vindictive fantasies of her ex-husband and his young bride until she finds unexpected companionship in a bold and sassy jazz singer and a down-on-his-luck elevator operator in her fashionable Fifth Avenue building.
8) Ball of fire
Series
Language
English
Description
Realizing they have to hear how real people talk, a group of lexicographers end up assisting a beautiful singer get away from the mob.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jazz age singing sensation Ruth Etting had it all, but it took more than talent to make it big. Her rise to fame at the hands of her Chicago gangster boyfriend turned her life off stage into a world of fear and abuse.
10) Joyful noise
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The small town of Pacashau, Georgia, has fallen on hard times, but the people are counting on the Divinity Church Choir to lift their spirits by winning the National Joyful Noise Competition. The discord between its two leading ladies threatens to tear them apart. Their newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill, stubbornly wants to stick with their tried-and-true traditional style, G.G. Sparrow thinks tried-and-true translates to tired-and-old.
11) The great Caruso
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Recreates Caruso's career, from beginning as a young cafe singer through his 18-year triumph at the Met, centering on his happy marriage to Dorothy Benjamin and his troubles with her family.
13) Marguerite
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
1921 not far from Paris. It is party day at Marguerite Dumont's castle. Nobody knows much about this woman except that she is rich and that her whole life is devoted to her passion: music. When a young, provocative journalist decides to write a rave article on her latest performance, Marguerite starts to believe even further in her talent. This gives her the courage she needs to follow her dream.
14) Maytime
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (131 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One of the top-grossing films of 1937, Maytime is the poignant, glorious musical that has long been acknowledged as a supreme masterpiece of its genre. See and hear Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy at the height of their vocal powers and popularity.
15) Sparkle
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in Harlem in 1958, this musical tells the story of three sisters struggling to find stardom as a singing group. But they learn that wishing on a star is one thing, and that being the star can be a one-way ticket to self-destruction.
16) G.I. blues
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Elvis plays an Oklahoma singer who gets out of the army and wants to open a club.
17) Jailhouse rock
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young man is sent to prison when he accidentally kills a man in a barroom brawl. While behind bars he takes up singing and is helped in the record business by a beautiful young woman.
18) Kiss me, stupid
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2015.
Edition
Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (125 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A jealous piano teacher Orville Spooner sends his beautiful wife, Zelda, away for the night while he tries to sell a song to a famous nightclub singer Dino, who is stranded in town.
19) Sparkle
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1960s, Sparkle and her two sisters form a singing group and dream of becoming stars beyond the affluent Detroit suburb where they come from, and where they are already well-known. But as the sisters become more famous, the close-knit nature of their family begins to fall apart. Features the late Whitney Houston's final screen performance.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A thief is on the run from a life of crime. A nightclub singer is hoping to escape from the blues of heartache. Two lost souls who have become fugitives from the past. Now fate is bringing them together in the unfolding present. Halfway around the world, in a mysterious and enchanted village, they will each seek a way to literally save their lives, while discovering a love that will radically change them both.
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