Summary: Dancing great Bill Williamson takes a look back on the beginnings of his career and his romance with fellow rising star Selina. Their romance is brief because Selina does not want to settle down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS STOFarnworth, Cordelia
Summary: A struggling shoe factory owner and a drag queen form an unlikely partnership to create sturdy stiletto shoes for performers, helping to bring the shoe factory back from the brink of collapse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Video Distributors 2021
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS KINSummary: A 17th century entertainer exiled from England and shipped to America falls in love with a princess who is kidnapped by pirates.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2005
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PRISummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRUSummary: Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ShoCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHOSummary: Pop singer Mima Kirigoe looks forward to a bright new career when she quits her chart-topping trio to become an actress. When she lands a role in a sexually charged murder mystery, Mima's life begins to fall apart. Reality and hallucinations merge into a terrifying netherworld where innocence is lost and dreams turn into nightmares. Quickly descending into a dangerous state of paranoid...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME PERSummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VALSummary: In a searing parody of American television and racial attitudes a young African American network executive, under pressure from his white boss, creates a minstrel show, hoping that it will fail and that he will be released from his network contract -- but the TV show becomes both a hit and the subject of much controversy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BAMSummary: A traveling entertainer gets more than she bargained for during a stopover in a South American port town. There she meets a handsome yet aloof daredevil pilot, who runs an airmail company, staring down death while servicing towns in treacherous mountain terrain. Both attracted to and repelled by his romantic sense of danger, she decides to stay on, despite his protestations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE ONLSummary: 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 a 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY COMEDY GRESummary: The steps of the studio set towered before her like a pyramid. All Doris Day had to do was dance up and down those steps while wearing a flowing gold lame dress. "You've got to be out of your minds," Day exclaimed in a voice heard across the soundstage. But dance and sing she did. Day plays a singer who arrives in New York never dreaming it will begin an alternately funny and heartfelt shot at...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Classic LullabyClement, Jemaine
Summary: A folk music/comedy duo from New Zealand try to make it big in New York City.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FLISummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RAY RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RAYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie RaySummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MISS RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MISSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BODCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BODSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LITSummary: Relates the story of a nightclub entertainer who is also a heel. He romances a wealthy socialite to get her to finance his own nightclub, then falls for a chorine he hires for the club.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures 1999
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS PALSummary: Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, is home to one-eyed artist Michele and alcoholic street performer Alex. It is also their stage as they break up and get back together in increasingly explosive reunions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 1959, Yasujiro Ozu remade his 1934 silent film: A Story of Floating Weeds in color and sound with the cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa (Rashomon, Ugetsu). Setting his later version in a seaside location, Ozu otherwise preserves the details of his elegantly simple plot wherein an aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunities with his former lover and illegitimate son, a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The classic musical about two guys that become a popular song and dance team and play at a resort for charity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Set in the 1890s, West plays a brash barroom entertainer with a soft spot for men in trouble, especially the mission director, young Cary Grant. She unknowingly gets caught up in a murder, as well as a white slavery ring, and sets about clearing things up as only Mae can. In between rescues she manages to perform some of her heated, hip-swinging classics including a steamy belting of 'Frankie...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SHESummary: A charismatic young Irish guitarist and a sheltered young cellist have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square. They are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York City and cared for by a mysterious stranger, August uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008