Summary: A television movie event based on the inspiring true story of living legend Dolly Parton's remarkable upbringing in rural Tennessee. This once-in-a-lifetime special takes place inside the tight-knit Parton family as they struggle to overcome devastating tragedy and discover the healing power of love, faith and a raggedy patchwork coat, vividly described in the well-known song of the film's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DOLSummary: A biography of American actress and singer Lillian Russell, from her discovery in 1890 by band leader Tony Pastor until her retirement in 1912, when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS LILSummary: Following the rise of Aretha Franklin's career from a child singing in her father's church's choir to her international superstardom, 'Respect' is the remarkable true story of the music icon's journey to find her voice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RESCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE RESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RESCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RESSummary: Vince Everett is serving a one-year jail sentence for manslaughter. While in the big house, his cellmate, a former country singer, introduces him to the record business. Vince takes to it so well that he decides to become a singer when he gets out. However, he is quickly disillusioned by the record business. But with the help of a new friend, he decides to form his own label, and soon he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS JAISummary: A feature film about the late musical icon, Whitney Houston. Naomi Ackie stars as Whitney Houston in the musical biopic, which is based on the epic life and music of the iconic singer. Directed by Kasi Lemmons and written by Academy Award Nominee Anthony McCarten, the film will take audiences on an emotional, energetic journey through Houston's career and music.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2023
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2 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHICopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHISummary: An Emmy-winning anthology series that dramatizes the fascinating stories of the world's most brilliant innovators, exploring their extraordinary achievements along with their volatile, passionate and complex personal relationships. The third season will explore Aretha Franklin's musical genius and incomparable career, as well as the immeasurable impact and lasting influence she has had on music...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GENSummary: Diana Ross stars in this musical drama charting the life of Billie Holiday, a life tormented by racism and drug abuse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LADCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie LadySummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Classic LoveSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Three young women Deena Jones, Effie White, and Lorrell Robinson desire to become pop stars. They get their wish when they are picked to be backup singers for the legendary James "Thunder" Early. When they are set free for leads, Curtis Taylor and Effie's brother C.C. decide that Deena should be the lead singer, which upsets Effie. The girls discover exactly what it takes to be in the music...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRECopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS DRESummary: Three young women, Deena Jones, Effie White, and Lorrell Robinson, desire to become pop stars. They get their wish when they are picked to be backup singers for the legendary James "Thunder" Early. When they are set free for leads, Curtis Taylor and Effie's brother C.C. decide that Deena should be the lead singer, which upsets Effie. The girls discover exactly what it takes to be in the music...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie DreamSummary: Jude is a dock worker from Liverpool who travels to the United States in the 1960s to find his estranged father. There, he falls in love with sheltered American teenager Lucy. When her brother, Max, is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, they become involved in peace activism.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ACRSummary: Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007