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Call Number: VHS01590

by: George Stevens, Morrie Ryskind, Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Beulah Bondie, Edgar Buchanan, Ann Doran, Eva Lee Kuney, United American Video Corp.

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher:  Charlotte, N.C. : United American Video Corp., ©1991.

Notes: From a story by Martha Cheavens. Videocassette release of the 1941 motion picture (119 min.). Nominated for a 1942 Oscar.

Summary: Penny Serenade (1941) is a classic film about love, marriage and parenthood. Dunne and Grant are worldly sophisticates who marry and adopt a child, while also trying to run a newspaper. The couple’s happiness turns into tragedy that brings their marriage to the point of collapse. But their big dreams together give way to a life full of unexpected sadness and unexpected joy.

OCLC #: 24071801

Added: January 19,2012

Call Number: VHS01589

by: Jim McBride; Jack Baran; Adam Fields; Dennis Quaid; Winona Ryder; Murray Silver; Myra Lewis; Orion Pictures.; Orion Home Video (Firm)

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher:  New York : Orion Home Video, [1989]

Notes: Based on the book by Myra Lewis with Murray Silver, Jr. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1989. Includes a music video. 108min.

Summary: Biographical film about the rock ‘n’ roll singer called “Killer”, Jerry Lee Lewis. The film covers the period when he moved to Memphis to further his career. His barrelhouse rhythm and blues piano playing and raucous singing led to a string of hits, but his marriage to his 13-year-old cousin all but killed his career.

OCLC #: 20816029

Added: January 19,2012

Call Number: VHS01588

by: Brian De Palma; Sissy Spacek; John Travolta; Piper Laurie; Stephen King

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher:  Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1984.

Notes: Based on the novel by Stephen King. Originally released as a motion picture in 1976. 98min.

Summary: A young girl with telekinetic powers is the school wallflower and she bears the brunt of her classmates jokes. Blood runs rampant when she gets her revenge.

OCLC #: 752311972

Added: January 19,2012

Call Number: VHS01587

by: Sol C Siegel; John Patrick; Charles Walters; Bing Crosby; Grace, Princess of Monaco; Frank Sinatra; Celeste Holm; John Lund; Louis Calhern; Sidney Blackmer; Cole Porter; Louis Armstrong; Paul C Vogel; Ralph E Winters; Johnny Green; Saul Chaplin; Philip Barry; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; Sol C. Siegel Productions.; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm)

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher:  New York : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1985.

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1956.Based on the play, The Philadelphia story by Philip Barry. 112min.

Summary: In this sophisticated musical comedy, a society wedding is being arranged in Newport, Rhode Island. The beautiful Tracy Samantha Lord is to marry George Kittredge. However, Tracy’s ex-husband, the songwriter C.K. Dexter-Haven, has never stopped loving her and has hopes of winning her back. A New York scandal sheet reporter and photographer arrive to cover the wedding and complicate the tangled romances.

OCLC #: 12125400

Added: January 19,2012

Call Number: VHS01586

by: P J Hogan; Jerry Zucker; Ronald Bass; Julia Roberts; Dermot Mulroney; Cameron Diaz; Rupert Everett; Philip Bosco; M Emmet Walsh; Laszlo Kovacs; Garth Craven; Lisa Fruchtman; James Newton Howard; Tri-Star Pictures.; Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm)

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher:  Culver City, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Video, [1997]

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1997. Includes previews. 105min.

Summary: When a woman’s long-time friend says he’s engaged, she realizes she loves him herself… and sets out to get him, with only days before the wedding.

OCLC #: 38057467

Added: January 19,2012

Call Number: DVD00860

Director/Distributor: by Jennifer Aniston; Joan Cusack; Catherine Keener; Frances McDormand

Format: DVD

Language: English 5.1 (dolby digital), French (dolby surround) ; English and French subtitles ; closed-captioned.

Publisher:  Culver City, CA : Sony Pictures Classics, 2006.

Notes: Special features: beind-the-scenes featurette; Sundance featurette; Los Angeles premiere featurettte; audio commentary with writer/director Nicole Holofcener and producer Anthony Bregman. 88min.

A story of four best friends whose comfortable lives are thrown off balance as the realities of middle age set in.  After she quits her lucrative job, Olivia finds herself unsure about her future and her relationships with her successful and wealthy friends.

OCLC #: 71198085

Added: January 19,2012

Call Number: DVD00648

by: Rob Reiner; Aaron Sorkin; Michael Douglas; Annette Bening; Martin Sheen; Michael J Fox; David Paymer; Castle Rock Entertainment (Firm); Universal Pictures (Firm); Wildwood Enterprises.; Warner Home Video (Firm)

Format: DVD

Language: In English with optional subtitles in English and French; closed-captioned in English.

Publisher:  Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [1999]

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1995.
Special features include production notes and theatrical trailer. 115 min.

Andrew Shepherd is a consummate politician and a man of integrity, who also happens to be a widower, ready to start dating again. He is swept off his feet by a lobbyist, Sydney Ellen Wade. His critics rant that it is immoral and his friends proclaim that it’s romantic, but one thing is certain, all that stands between true love and re-election is the approval of the American public.

OCLC #: 42473042

Added: January 19,2012

Call Number: DVD00642

by: Alfred Hitchcock; Mill Creek Entertainment.

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher:  [Minneapolis, MN] : Mill Creek Entertainment, ©2008.

Notes: Episodes from the television series, Alfred Hitchcock presents, “The Chaney Vase” and “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” originially broadcast between 1955 and 1962; feature films originally released between 1926 and 1939. Running time approx. 748 mins.

Summary: Disc 1. “The Lady Vanishes”: During a transcontinental train trip in Europe, a young woman is alarmed to discover a passenger has disappeared — “The Farmer’s Wife”: (silent) A lonely widowed farmer is looking for a new bride, not realizing the housekeeper helping him with his search is secretly in love with him — “The Manxman” (silent): A romantic tale of intrigue involving a love triangle concerning three residents of the Isle of Man — Alfred Hitchcock presents: the “Chaney “Vase”: An elderly woman finds herself a prisoner in her own home — Alfred Hitchock presents: “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”: A young drifter is befriended by a carnival magician and his beautiful assistant, who don’t realize with whom they are involved. Disc 2. “Rich and Strange”: Believing that an unexpected inheritance will bring them happiness, a married couple instead finds their relationship strained to the breaking point.; “The Thirty-nine Steps”: A man in London tries to help a counterespionage agent. But when the agent is killed and he stands accused, he must go on the run to both save himself and also stop a spy ring trying to steal top secret information.; “Secret Agent”: After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.; “Champagne”: A spoiled heiress defies her father by running off to marry her lover. But Daddy has a few tricks up his sleeve.; “Blackmail”: Alice White, detective Frank Webber’s girlfriend, is invited by an artist to visit his studio. The man tries to rape Alice and she kills him with a knife to defend herself. A criminal sees the murder and he keeps the lady’s glove from the crime scene in order to blackmail her. Frank is assigned to the murder case.

OCLC #: 233033239

Added: January 13,2012