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Summary: "This collection features three classic noir films from the 1950s. Thunder on the Hill (1951)--directed by the great Douglas Sirk, a nun (Claudette Colbert) races against time to prove the innocence of a convicted murderess (Ann Blyth) who is being escorted to prison for a date with the gallows. The Price of Fear (1956)--a woman (Merle Oberon) guilty of a hit-and-run accident frames another...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY FIL

Summary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOL

Summary: A comedy of love and money, divorce and marriage, brothers and sisters.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PAL

Summary: Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, George Brent, and Natalie Wood star in a moving, romantic drama about a soldier, previously thought lost in action, who returns years later to find his wife remarried.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TOM

Summary: This collection pays tribute to seven of Preston Sturges finest and funniest films.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PRE

Summary: A runaway heiress falls in love with a reporter who is chasing her across America.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY IT

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ITH

Summary: A historical drama that tells the story of a young frontier leader, his spirited wife, and their struggles in the backwoods of New York state.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Classic Drums

Summary: The story of two women trying to find success, but end up finding that success isn't everything. Includes both the 1934 and 1959 releases.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA IMI

Summary: It explores the friendship between two struggling single mothers: one a working-class white woman who ascends to the top of the business world, and the other her Black housekeeper, whose life is shattered by the rejection of her rebellious, white-passing daughter. It is this latter relationship attuned to America's bitter racial realities and heartbreakingly enacted by trailblazing Black...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA IMI

Summary: The Hiltons are an average family living in a Midwestern town. The father of the household has waived his 3A status and enlisted to go overseas. His wife must now act as father and mother to their two daughters and keep their father's memory alive.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SIN

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Summary: The author's incisive reflections on life, its stages, and its states compares them with the natural treasures of life in the sea.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 170.82 LIN

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