Barfly

March 23, 2011
Barfly
Call Number: VHS01562
by: William Kennedy; Keith Barish; Marcia Nasatir; Hector Babenco; Jack Nicholson; Meryl Streep; Carroll Baker; Michael O’Keefe; Fred Gwynne; Diane Venora; Margaret Whitton; Tom Waits; John Morris; Anne Goursaud; Lauro Escorel; Taft Entertainment Pictures.; Paul Barish Productions.; Vestron Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Stamford, CT : Vestron Video, [1988]
Notes: Released in 1987. Based on the novel by William Kennedy. Running Time Aprox 100 mins. 
Summary: Henry and Wanda are wedded to their bar stools, not each other, but they like each other and attempt to make a go of life on the skids.
OCLC #:18759456
Added: March 23, 2011
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Like water for chocolate = Como agua para chocolate

Like water for chocolate or “Como agua para chocolate”
Call Number: VHS01557
by: Alfonso Arau; Marco Leonardi; Lumi Cavazos; Regina Torne; Laura Esquivel;
Format: VHS
Language: Spanish with English subtitles.
Publisher: [S.l.] : Touchstone Home Video ; Burbank, Calif. : Buena Vista Home Video (Demo Tape), 1994, ©1992
Notes: Released in 1992. Based on the novel by Laura Esquivel. Running Time Aprox 105 mins. Demo Tape – Not For Rent or Sale Copy.
Summary: Romantic fantasy set in the early 20th century about a young couple blocked from marrying by the demands of her cold and selfish mother. To be near his love the young man marries her sister, and she expresses her passion for him through her cooking.
OCLC #: [?] Demo tape
Added: March 23, 2011
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Operation Petticoat

Operation Petticoat
Call Number: DVD01081
by: Blake Edwards; Cary Grant; Tony Curtis; Joan O’Brien; Dina Merrill; Gene Evans; Dick Sargent; Arthur O’Connell; Gavin MacLeod; Marion Ross; Universal-International (Firm); Granart Company.; Republic Entertainment Inc.; Artisan Entertainment (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: [United States] : Republic Entertainment ; Santa Monica, Calif. : Distributed by Artisan, [2001]
Notes: Originally released in 1959 (120 min.); Nominated for one 1960 Academy Award;
Summary: World War 2 comedy about a submarine commander who finds himself stuck with a decrepit (and pink) sub, a con-man executive officer and a group of Army nurses.
OCLC #: 49504064
Added: March 23, 2011
Also: Available on VHs at VHS001356
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The Bishop’s Wife

The Bishop’s Wife
Call Number: DVD00683
by: Samuel Goldwyn; Robert E Sherwood; Leonardo Bercovici; Henry Koster; Cary Grant; Loretta Young; David Niven; Monty Woolley; James Gleason; Gladys Cooper; Elsa Lanchester; Gregg Toland; Perry Ferguson; Monica Collingwood; Hugo Friedhofer; Robert Nathan; RKO Radio Pictures, inc.; Samuel Goldwyn Co.; MGM Home Entertainment Inc;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment Inc., ©2001
Notes: Originally released in 1947 (109 mins. Black & White); edition contains the original theatrical trailer; From the novel by Robert Nathan; Nominated for five 1948 Academy Awards;
Summary: Cary Grant stars as an angel who materializes in answer to the prayers of a harried young bishop, David Niven. Niven’s efforts to raise money for a new cathedral have endangered his marriage to beautiful Loretta Young. Grant enters the bishop’s household hoping to end the problems plaguing the family, but instead the bishop’s negelected wife becomes infatuated with him.
OCLC #: 46417557
Added: March 23, 2011
Also: Available on VHs at VHS000716
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Comes a Horseman

Comes a Horseman

 
Call Number: DVD00739
by: James Caan; Jane Fonda; Jason Robards; Dennis Lynton Clark; Gene Kirkwood; Dan Paulson; Alan J Pakula;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Santa Monica, CA. : MGM Home Entertainment, [2001]
Notes: Originally released in 1978 (118 min.);  Nominated for one 1979 Academy Award;

Summary: A World War II veteran and a woman rancher team up to fight for their land when both are threatened by a greedy cattle baron.
OCLC #: 47933986
Added: March 23, 2011
Also: Available on VHs at VHS001325
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The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Adventures of Robin Hood
Call Number: DVD00638
by: Michael Curtiz; William Keighley; Norman Reilly Raine; Seton I Miller; Erich Wolfgang Korngold; Errol Flynn; Olivia De Havilland; Basil Rathbone; Claude Rains; Patric Knowles; Eugene Pallette; Alan Hale; Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967); Turner Entertainment Co.; Warner Bros. Entertainment.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Turner Entertainment : Warner Bros. Entertainment : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2010]
Notes: Originally released in 1938 (85 min.); Based upon ancient Robin Hood legends; Nominated for four 1939 Academy Awards; Special features include commentary by historian Rudy Behlmer; Leonard Maltin hosts Warner night at the movies 1938; vintage newsreel, musical short Freddie Rich and his orchestra; classic cartoon Katnip Kollege; trailer of movie plus 1938’s angels with dirty faces; , Errol Flynn trailer gallery, and music-only audio track showcasing Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Oscar-winning score;
Summary: Rebel outlaw Robin Hood outwits the Sheriff of Nottingham and Guy of Gisbourne, and saves the throne for the absent King Richard I.
OCLC #: 678481519
Added: March 23, 2011
Also: Available on VHs at VHS001365
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Mr. Blandings builds his dream house

March 22, 2011
Mr. Blandings builds his dream house
Call Number: VHS01554
by: H C Potter; Norman Panama; Melvin Frank; Cary Grant; Myrna Loy; Melvyn Douglas; RKO Radio Pictures, inc.; Turner Home Entertainment (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Los Angeles, CA/Fox Hills Video, ©1987.
Notes: Released in 1948. Running Time Aprox 94 mins.
Summary: A successful New York advertising executive wants to escape the confines of his family’s tiny midtown apartment. So he designs his dream home in the suburbs and discovers the project isn’t as easy as it had seemed.
OCLC #: [?]
Added: March 22, 2011
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Love and anarchy

Love and Anarchy
Call Number: VHS01553
by: Lina Wertmuller; Romano Cardarelli; Imago Films.; RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Publisher: Burbank, CA: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, ©1986.
Notes: Released in 1973 in Italy by Imago Films. Running Time Aprox 108 mins.
Summary: A shy country peasant goes to Rome with a plan to assassinate Benito Mussolini. An underground contact offers him a hideout in a bordello, where he falls in love with a woman who ultimately causes him to fail in his mission.
OCLC #: 20927730
Added: March 22, 2011
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Turtle diary

March 21, 2011
Turtle Diary
Call Number: VHS01546
by: John Irvin; Harold Pinter; Glenda Jackson; Ben Kingsley; Turtle Diary, Ltd.; Vestron Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher:  Stamford, CT : Vestron Video, ©1986.
Notes: Videocassette release of the 1985 motion picture. Based on the novel of the same title by Russell Hoban.
Running Time Aprox 96 mins.
Summary: A children’s author and a bookstore assistant have little in common aside from their interest in the aquarium’s sea turtles, but their common desire to free the captive turtles creates a bond that gives a new outlook to their lives in this romantic comedy by Harold Pinter.
OCLC #: 14288632
Added: March 21, 2011
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Flirting with disaster

Flirting with disaster
Call Number: VHS01541
by: David O Russell; Ben Stiller; Patricia Arquette; Téa Leoni; Miramax Films.; Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher:  [S.l.] : Miramax Home Entertainment ; Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video, 1997.
Notes:  Film Originally Released 1996 , Running Time Aprox 92 mins.); 
Summary: A young man, his wife, and his incompetent case worker travel across country to find his birth parents.OCLC #: 36635045
Added: March 21, 2011
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Personal Velocity: Three Portraits

Personal Velocity: Three Portraits
Call Number: DVD00835
by: Gary Winick; Alexis Alexanian; Lemore Syvan; Rebecca Miller; Kyra Sedgwick; Parker Posey; Fairuza Balk; David Warshofsky; Leo Fitzpatrick; Tim Guinee; Patti D’Arbanville; Wallace Shawn; Ron Leibman; Ellen Kuras; Sabine Hoffman; Michael Rohatyn; IFC Productions (Firm); InDigEnt (Firm); Goldheart Pictures (Firm); Blue Magic Pictures.; MGM Home Entertainment Inc;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, ©2003;
Notes:  Film Released 2002 , (85 mins.); Based on the short story collection: Personal velocity / by Rebecca Miller;
Summary: Delia (Sedgwick) escapes from an abusive husband. Greta (Posey) risks everything on a new career. And Paula (Balk) takes flight after a tragic accident. These women must overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles that confine them. But are they really on their way to new lives, or are they just making new versions of old mistakes?
OCLC #: 51857162
Added: March 21, 2011
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Train of Life

March 20, 2011
Train of Life
Call Number: VHS01522
by:  Radu Mihaileanu; Lionel Abelanski; Rufus.; Noe Productions.; Paramount Pictures Corporation;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Pictures, ©2000.
Notes: Originally released in 1998 (103 mins).In French with English subtitles.
Summary:The year is 1941, and a tiny Jewish community in France is faced with some shocking news: the Nazis are coming. But Shlomo, the not-so-foolish village idiot, has a plan–before the Germans can dispatch them to camps, the townspeople will “deport” themselves, to freedom.
OCLC #: 44118672
Added: March 20, 2011
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Me You Them

Me You Them
Call Number: VHS01521
by:  Leonardo Monteiro de Barros; Pedro Buarque de Hollanda; Andrucha Waddington; Elena Soárez; Flávio R Tambellini; Regina Casé; Lima Duarte; Stênio Garcia; Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos; Nilda Spencer; Breno Silveira; Vincente Kubrusly; Gilberto Gil; Claudia Kopke; Toni Vanzolini; Sony Pictures Classics (Firm); Conspiração Filmes.; Columbia TriStar Filmes do Brasil (Firm); Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2001], ©2000.
Notes: Originally released in 2000 (107 mins).Portuguese dialogue, English subtitles
Summary:Based on a true story, Darlene longs for love, family and passion. She leaves her small rural town to find the one man that can fulfill all of her desires. One child, still single and three years later, Darlene, comes back home. She accepts a marriage proposal from a neighbor who turns her into his personal slave. Her husband’s cousin comes to live with them and she finds comfort with him. A young and handsome drifter shows up to work and he ignites Darlene’s passions. Can one woman, three men and four children live under one roof or will Darlene be swept away by the drifter?.
OCLC #: 47891967
Added: March 20, 2011
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Tortilla Flat

Tortilla Flat
Call Number: VHS01512
by:  Spencer Tracy; Hedy Lamarr; John Garfield; Victor Fleming; John Steinbeck; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher:  Culver City, CA : Distributed by MGM/UA Home Video, [1992].
Notes: Released in 1942 (100 mins.)Black and White. Nominated for one 1943 Academy Award. Based on the novel by John Steinbeck.
Summary: Story of a group of Paisanos, descendants of early Mexican settlers in Northern California. They live in the tiny town of Tortilla Flat and spend their days eating, drinking and relaxing in the sun. When one of them inherits 2 houses the rest are soon living in the houses without paying rent! The situation is further complicated when the house owner falls for a beautiful woman.
OCLC #: 25571956
Added: March 20, 2011
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Greatest Classic Films Collection – John Wayne Westerns

March 18, 2011
Turner Classic Movies Greatest Classic Films Collection – John Wayne Westerns
Call Number: DVD00892 Copy 1
DVD00892 Copy 2
by: John Wayne; Jeffrey Hunter; Vera Miles; Ward Bond; Natalie Wood; Henry Fonda; Shirley Temple; Pedro Armendáriz; George O’Brien; Victor McLaglen; Anna Lee; Irene Rich; Dick Foran; Guy Kibbee; Grant Withers; Mae Marsh; John Agar; Dean Martin; Rick Nelson; Angie Dickinson; Walter Brennan; John Russell; Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez; Estelita Rodriguez; Roscoe Lee Browne; Bruce Dern; Colleen Dewhurst; Frank S Nugent; John Ford; Jules Furthman; Leigh Brackett; Dimitri Tiomkin; Howard Hawks; John Williams; Irving Ravetch; Harriet Frank; William Dale Jennings; Mark Rydell;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2009];
Notes:  Films Released between 1948 and 197, (431 mins.) Special features: disc [1], side A. Commentary by director, Peter Bogdanovich; disc [1], side B. Featurette, Monument Valley: John Ford country; theatrical trailer; disc [2], side A. Director, John Carpenter and historian/critic, Richard Schickel; John Wayne movie trailer gallery; disc [2], side B. Featurettes, The cowboys: together again and The breaking of boys and the making of men; theatrical trailer.
Ride the high country: Originally released as a motion picture in 1962.
Title from container.
Films:
The Searchers – A Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother’s daughter.
Fort Apache – A calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
Rio Bravo – A Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.
The Cowboys – A rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers for the gold mines.
OCLC #: 327431576
Added: March 18, 2011
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Greatest Classic Films Collection – Westerns

Turner Classic Movies Greatest Classic Films Collection – Westerns   
Call Number: DVD00893
by: Andrew J Fenady; Andrew V McLaglen; John Wayne; Forrest Tucker; Christopher George; Ben Johnson; Alvin Sargent; Wendell Mayes; Alan J Pakula; Robert Mulligan; Theodore V Olsen; Gregory Peck; Eva Marie Saint; Robert Forster; Noland Clay; Sam Peckinpah; Gordon Carroll; Rudolph Wurlitzer; James Coburn; Kris Kristofferson; Bob Dylan; Jason Robards; N B Stone; Richard E Lyons; Randolph Scott; Joel McCrea; Mariette Hartley; Warner Home Video (Firm); Warner Bros.; Batjac Productions.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ); Pakula-Mulligan Productions.);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2010];
Notes:  Films Released between 1962 and 1973, (431 mins.) The stalking moon: From the novel “The Stalking Moon” by Theodore V. Olsen. Special features: Commentary by Peckinpah, biographers/documentarians Nick Redman, Paul Seydor, Garner Simmons and David Weddle; featurette “A Justified Life: Sam Peckinpah and the High Country”; Sam Peckinpah trailer gallery; theatrical trailer.
Ride the high country: Originally released as a motion picture in 1962.
Title from container.
Films:
Chisum: Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war–www.imdb.com.
 
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: An aging Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons–his sole purpose being to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid–www.imdb.com.
 
The Stalking Moon: When an army scout retires to a farm in New Mexico he takes pity on a white woman and her half-breed son recently rescued from indians, and invites them to join him. He does this even knowing the child’s father is a feared and murderous Apache and that sooner or later a showdown is almost inevitable–www.imdb.com.
 
Ride the High Country: An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn’t realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him–www.imdb.com.
 
OCLC #: 642685539
Added: March 18, 2011
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Greatest Classic Films Collection – Romantic Dramas

Turner Classic Movies Greatest Classic Films Collection – Romantic Dramas  
Call Number: DVD00890
by: James Dean; Natalie Wood; Paul Newman; Elizabeth Taylor; Marlon Brando; Stewart Stern; David Weisbart; Nicholas Ray; Elia Kazan; Paul Osborn; Richard Brooks; James Poe; Lawrence Weingarten; Charles K Feldman; John Steinbeck; Tennessee Williams; Warner Home Video (Firm); Turner Entertainment Co.; Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967); Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ); Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, [2009];
Notes:  Films Released between 1958 and 1983, (459 mins. Black and White & Color); Summary: Rebel without a cause (1955): The adolescent son of a well-to-do family gets into trouble with other kids and the police.
East of Eden (1955): A wayward Salinas Valley youth vies for the affection of his hardened father with his favored brother.
Cat on a hot tin roof (1958): A drama of the problems of a wealthy but decadent family in the South.
A streetcar named Desire (1951): Set in the steamy squalor of New Orleans, the story of a neurotic woman’s mental collapse through exposure to her brother-in-law’s animal magnetism.
OCLC #: 308528741
Added: March 18, 2011
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Greatest Films Collection – Romantic Comedies

Turner Classic Movies Greatest Classic Films Collection – Romantic Comedies  
Call Number: DVD00889
by: by Cary Grant; Katharine Hepburn; James Stewart; Spencer Tracy; George Cukor; Howard Hawks; George Cooper Stevens; Turner Classic Movies (Television network); Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, ©2009;
Notes:  Films Released between 1938 and 1966, (426 mins. Black and White & Color);
Summary: Philadelphia story (1940, 112 min.):A sophisticated romantic comedy about a rich, spoiled socialite who learns some things about who she is and what she really wants on the eve of her second marriage.
Bringing up Baby (1938, 102 min.): Crazy comedy about an heiress who is determined to catch a stuffy zoologist and uses her pet leopard, Baby, to help get his attention.
Adam’s rib (1949, 100 min.): A husband and wife lawyer team clash when the wife defends a woman on trial for shooting her spouse. The lawyer-husband is the prosecutor.
Woman of the year (1942, 112 min.): In this hilarious excursion into the Battle of the Sexes, Tracy plays Sam Craig, the down-to-earth sportswriter of the New York Chronicle. As Tess Harding, the paper’s bright international columnist, Hepburn makes his life miserable. As soon as they start taking swipes at each other in their columns, there is little peace between them. In the office and in the bedroom the squabbling continues, until their problems are overcome by their deep love for each other.
OCLC #: 310976949
Added: March 18, 2011
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Greatest Classic Films Collection – Best Picture Winners

Turner Classic Movies Greatest Classic Films Collection – Best Picture Winners
Call Number: DVD00886
by: Humphrey Bogart; Ingrid Bergman; Paul Henreid; Claude Rains; Conrad Veidt; Sydney Greenstreet; Peter Lorre; Greer Garson; Walter Pidgeon; Teresa Wright; May Whitty, Dame; Reginald Owen; Henry Travers; Richard Ney; Henry Wilcoxon; Leslie Caron; Maurice Chevalier; Louis Jourdan; Hermione Gingold; Eva Gábor; Jacques Bergerac; Isabel Jeans; Gene Kelly; Oscar Levant; Georges Guétary; Nina Foch; Murray Burnett; Joan Alison; Jan Struther; Colette; Hal B Wallis; Julius J Epstein; Philip G Epstein; Howard Koch; Michael Curtiz; Sidney A Franklin; Arthur Wimperis; George Froeschel; James Hilton; Claudine West; William Wyler; Arthur Freed; Alan Jay Lerner; Vincente Minnelli; Max Steiner; Herbert Stothart; Frederick Loewe; Ira Gershwin; George Gershwin; Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967); First National Pictures, Inc.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; Loew’s Incorporated.; Arthur Freed Productions.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, ©2009.
Notes: Films Released between 1942 and 1958, (462 mins. Black and White & Color); Casablanca is based on the play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison, Mrs. Miniver is based on the book by Jan Struther, Gigi is based on the novel by Colette; Special features: Disc 1, Side A: 2 commentaries with critic Roger Ebert and historian Rudy Behlmer; introduction by Lauren Bacall. Side B: Greer Garson Academy Awards footage; photo gallery; 2 World War II-era shorts: “Mr. Blabbermouth” and “For the common defense.” Special features: Disc 2, Side A: Commentary by historian Jeanine Basinger with Leslie Caron; vintage short “The million dollar nickel;” classic CinemaScope cartoon “The vanishing duck;” theatrial trailer. Side B: Commentary hosted by Patricia Ward Kelly and featuring rare interviews with Gene Kelly, Vincente Minnelli, Arthur Freed, Alan Jay Lerner, Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin, Michael Feinstein, Preston Ames and Irene Sharaff, and new observations by Leslie Caron and Nina Foch; vintage FitzPatrick Traveltalks short “Paris on parade;” classic cartoon “Symphony in slang;” theatrical trailer
Summary: [Disc 1]: Casablanca: Casablanca, WWII. Rick Blaine is an exiled American who owns the most popular nightclub in town, Rick’s cafe. He comes to have possession of two valuable letters that German couriers were killed trying to deliver to the German high command. Ilsa Lund re-enters Rick’s life to purchase the letters he has obtained. Mrs. Miniver: The Miniver’s are an English ‘middle-class’ family who, together, experience life in the first months of World War II. While dodging bombs. The Miniver’s son beings courting Lady Beldon’s granddaughter. A rose is named after Mrs. Miniver and it is entered into a competition where her rose will go up against Lady Beldon’s rose.
[Disc 2]: Gigi: Gaston is the scion of a wealthy Parisian family who finds emotional refuge from the superficial lifestyle of upper class Parisian 1900s society with the former mistress of his uncle and her outgoing, tomboy granddaughter, Gigi. When Gaston becomes aware that Gigi has matured into a woman, her grandmother and aunt, who have educated Gigi to be a wealthy man’s mistress, request he become her provider. An American in Paris: Jerry Mulligan is a struggling American painter in Paris who is ‘discovered’ by an influential heiress. She just happens to an interested in more than Jerry’s art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl already engaged to a cabaret singer. His relationshp with Lise is filled with romantic complications.
OCLC #: 312174857
Added: March 18, 2011
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Down to Earth

March 17, 2011

Down to Earth
Call Number: VHS01508
by: Chris Rock; Paramount Pictures
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Paramount Pictures ©2001.
Notes: Released in 2001 (87 mins.);Rated PG-13 for language, sexual humor and some drug references.
Summary: After dying before his time, an aspiring comic gets a second shot at life…by being reincarnated as a wealthy but un-likeable businessman.
OCLC #: 317820256
Added: March 17, 2011
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