Lana Turner
3) Peyton Place
Series
Studio classic volume 16
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbor. Beneath the town's placid god-fearing exterior lay any number of dark secrets.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
The story of two widows and their troubled daughters. In the search for success as an actress, Lora neglects her daughter. Lora's black housekeeper's daughter repudiates her mother by trying to pass for white. As the years pass, each of the four women realizes that she has been living an emotionally fruitless existence.
7) Madame X
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Holly Anderson is blackmailed by her evil mother-in-law into leaving her politician husband and their baby. Twenty years later, she finds herself on trial for murder-- where she is defended by her own son.
8) Homecoming
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A self-centered society doctor goes to war and finds himself changed by it, and falls deeply in love with a nurse, despite having a wife waiting for him at home.
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Remastered edition.
Language
English
Description
Taking an assumed name to hide his real identity, Adam rents a house from Rosemary Howard, the only single woman in a paradise filled with lonely housewives and workaholic husbands. There's trouble in Paradise when Adam begins advising the wives on their sex lives while their husbands grow increasingly jealous and indignant.
11) Cass Timberlane
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Virginia Marshland is a vivacious young woman from the wrong side of the tracks, whose rebellious ways fascinate small town widowed judge Cass Timberlane. He's lonely enough to believe that his stuffy friends will accept her, and their marriage. But Virginia is too spirited to play the part of a dutiful society wife for long, and soon becomes tempted by a friend of Timberlane's, a man about town who seems to offer the sophistication and adventure...
Series
Language
English
Description
1934 version: Two single mothers join together to form a successful business, but find that material success does nothing to stabilize their personal lives.
1959 version: Two single mothers, a down-on-her-luck actress and a homeless woman, attempt to find happiness for themselves and their daughters.
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
It's almost time for the big Christmas Dance and Andy Hardy has a new tuxedo and opera hat to wear to the event and an $20 jalopy to take him there. Now all he needs is a date. Problem is Andy has two gorgeous dates lined up. And a third, a new girl next door named Betsy, is also aching to go.
16) Ziegfeld girl
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Success and heartbreak are awaiting three young women chosen for the Ziegfeld follies.
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Warner Archive Collection.
Language
English
Description
Set in 19th-century Europe and New Zealand, this sweeping romance tells the story of two beautiful sisters, one headstrong and one gentle, and of the man who marries one even though he loves the other. The film's riptides of emotion are matched by breathtaking physical tumult: a fierce Maori uprising plus a catastrophic earthquake and tidal wave that earned the film a 1947 Oscar for special effects.
Pub. Date
1934.
Edition
Standard format (1.33:first, 1934 version) & widescreen format (1.85:first, 1959 version).
Language
English
Description
1934 version: Two single mothers join together to form a successful business, but find that material success does nothing to stabilize their personal lives.
1959 version: Two single mothers-- a down-on-her-luck actress and a homeless woman-- attempt to find happiness for themselves and their daughters.