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1) Green book
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When Tony Lip, a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on The Green Book to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger, as well as unexpected humanity and humor, they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the...
2) Road to Bali
Series
Language
English
Description
In Road to Bali, Hope and Crosby are vaudeville performers hired as deep sea divers by an unscrupulous South Sea island prince. In My favorite brunette, Hope plays a photographer who substitutes for a private eye and gets involved in a murder mystery.
Language
English
Description
In her spectacular film debut, Houston plays Rachel Marron, a music/movie superstar at her peak. Fans want to see her, hear her, touch her. But one wants to kill her - and that's where security expert Frank Farmer (Costner) comes in. Farmer is a professional who never lets his guard down. Rachel's glamorous life often puts her at risk. Each expects to be in charge. What they don't expect is to fall in love.
4) Ray
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Ray Charles went blind at the age of seven. Inspired by his mother who insisted he make his own way, he found his calling at the keyboard. 'Ray' follows as he overcomes drug addiction while becoming one of the country's most beloved performers.
5) Trumbo
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
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.
6) Trumbo
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
[Spanish subtitled version].
Language
English
Description
The successful career of 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) comes to a crushing end when he and other Hollywood figures are blacklisted for their political beliefs. TRUMBO (directed by Jay Roach) 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 (Helen Mirren) and John Wayne to Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger. Nominated...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew is a middle-aged governess who finds herself once again unfairly dismissed from her job. Now she must seize the day if she wants a job. She does this by intercepting an employment assignment outside of her comfort level as social secretary. Arriving at a penthouse apartment for the interview, Miss Pettigrew is catapulted into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Limited edition collection.
Language
English
Description
Sandra Bernhard doesn't know fear, and she tears into a viewer's discomfort with vigor and relish. Stripping herself, body & soul, down to bare essentials, she delivers an astonishing performance in this bizarre, funny and prickly satire of pop culture.
10) Sweethearts
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Song-filled extravaganza about a loving married couple whose relationship is threatened when Hollywood beckons.
Series
Shirley Temple collection volume 3
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
An orphan adopted by a kind hotel manager who rents rooms to down-on-their-luck entertainers lives happily enough until the owner of the hotel complains about the noise her showbiz friends make and threatens to close the hotel and send her back to the orphanage.
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Remastered edition.
Language
English
Description
The Gershwin musical Girl Crazy finds yet another financially strapped out-West ranch in need of youthful showbiz enthusiasm in a star-studded, '60s-tinged movie redo. Connie Francis and Harve Presnell play the young love and songbirds eager to turn the spread into a moneymaking dude ranch. There's plenty of music making, too, with original Gershwin songs plus an eclectic mix of specialty numbers by Louis Armstrong, Liberace, Sam the Sham and the...
13) Pal Joey
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A charming louse and former chorus girl turned rich widow seem made for each other, until the nice girl from a nice town comes along and shakes everything up.
14) On the avenue
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"When Gary Blake's new show starring Mona Merrick premieres, it angers socialite Mimi Carraway. But Mimi's bitterness turns to affection when she falls for Gary."--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 970
Language
English
Description
A hobo becomes an overnight celebrity. But, as usual, more fame leads to more power, and more power leads to more corruption. Will he be exposed as the fraud that he is?
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true life adventures of Pistol Packin Paula and her dog, Pepper. Paula, a world champion gunslinger and the star of a live action wild west show, is on top of the world. When her world literally comes to a crash in the form of a horrible accident, it is up to her best friend, her dog Pepper, to save her.
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Standard version.
Language
English
Description
This film, containing the first of many Fred Astaire - Ginger Rogers partnerships, concerns a troupe of entertainers stranded in Rio. Songs include "The Carioca, " "Orchids in the Moonlight, " and the title song. Notable for a brilliantly photographed finale with chorus girls on the wings of flying airplanes, the movie was the musical that broke with the rather contrived Busby Berkeley production and moved toward a closer integration of musical and...
18) Doggie B
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When aspiring vet Cassie finds out that her Uncle Peter's dog dancing studio is in danger of closing, she enters her devoted pup Pijo in the Dog Dancing Championships. Standing between the grand prize and the glory is ten-time champion Gertrude and her dancing canine Chaos, who will stop at nothing to win.
19) Kinky boots
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Factory owner Charlie is struggling to save his family business, and Lola is an entertainer with a wildly exciting idea. These unexpected pair learn to embrace their differences and create a line of sturdy stilettos! But in the end, their biggest achievement is their friendship.
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