You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man

July 15, 2010
You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man
Call Number: VHS01299
by George Marshall; W C Fields; Edgar Bergen;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Indianapolis, Ind. : KVC Home Video, [1986], ©1966.
Notes:  Originally released in 1939 (79 min. Black & White);
Summary: A gala showcase for the specialty talents of W.C. Fields and Edgar Bergen – who brings along Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd to add to the hilarity.
OCLC #: 500677608
Added: July 15, 2010
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Laurel & Hardy: Pack Up Your Troubles

Laurel & Hardy: Pack Up Your Troubles
Call Number: VHS01290
by Oliver Hardy; Stan Laurel; Donald Dillaway; Jacquie Lyn; George Marshall; Ray McCarey; Hal Roach; Hal Roach Productions.; Video Treasures (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Batavia, Ohio : Video Treasures, ©1991.
Notes:  Originally released in 1932 (73 min. Black & White);
Summary: Stan and Ollie are World War I buddies looking for an orphaned girl. Also includes rare home movie footage and photographs narrated by Stan’s daughter.
OCLC #: 24231719
Added: July 15, 2010
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Cary Grant / James Stewart

January 21, 2009
Cary Grant / James Stewart
Call Number: DVD00098
by James Stewart; Paulette Goddard; Horace Heidt; William Tummel; John Cromwell; Carole Lombard; Charles Coburn; Lucile Watson; Rose Franken; Jo Swerling; Eddie Quillan; Alma Kruger; George Cooper Stevens; Morrie Ryskind; Martha Cheavens; Cary Grant; Irene Dunne; Beulah Bondi; Edgar Buchanan; W Franke Harling; Mary Brian; Alfred Zeisler; John L ; Balderston; E Phillips; Oppenheim; Columbia Pictures Corporation.; Platinum Disc Corporation.;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: La Crosse, WI : Platinum Disc Corp., 200-?
Notes: Originally released between 1936 – 1941 (362 mins.); edition contains four films on two DVDs;
Summary: Disc 1: “Pot ‘o Gold”, 1941 (87 min.) : Based on a popular radio money giveaway show of the same name, Pot o’ Gold revolves around the popular big band Horace Heidt and His Thirty Musical Knights and their struggle for their big break. “Made for Each Other”, 1939 (85 min.) : Beautiful Carole Lombard and likeable James Stewart are Jane and John Mason, a couple who meet, fall madly in love, marry, and quickly have a baby. But while they–and the audience–are confident that they are meant for each other, life intercedes and the couple must meet with disapproving in-laws, job stress, financial challenges and, finally, a devastating illness.
Disc 2: “Penny Serenade”, 1941 (125 min.) : 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. “Amazing Adventure” (aka “The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss”), 1936 (ca. 70 min.) : A comedy adventure story of Ernest Bliss, a young millionaire, who can’t bear so much wealth. The suggested cure is that he go away for a year and earn his own living — a challenge which Ernest accepts.
OCLC #: 59105853
Added: January 21, 2009
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The Blue Dahlia

January 5, 2009
Blue Dahlia
Call Number: VHS00672
by George Marshall; John Houseman; Raymond Chandler; Alan Ladd; Veronica Lake; William Bendix; Howard Da Silva; Doris Dowling; Tom Powers; Frank Faylen; Hugh Beaumont; Howard Freeman; Wil Wright; Paramount Pictures, inc.; MCA Universal Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Universal City, Calif. : MCA/Universal Home Video, ©1996.
Notes: Originally released in 1946 (100 mins.); edition includes original theatrical trailer; Nominated for one 1947 Academy Award;
Summary: A returning war veteran finds his faithless wife murdered and himself a suspect.
OCLC #: 34585208
Added: January 5, 2009
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Murder, He Says

December 22, 2008
Murder, He Says
Call Number: VHS00548
by Fred MacMurray; Marjorie Main; George Marshall; Emanuel D Leshin; Paramount Pictures.; MCA Universal Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Universal City, CA : MCA Universal Home Video, 1997.
Notes: Originally released in 1945 (95 mins.);
Summary: An insurance salesman sent out to find a missing fellow employee is caught in the middle of a mountain clan’s family feud.
OCLC #: 36911555
Added: December 22, 2008
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Laurel & Hardy at Work

November 25, 2008
Laurel and Hardy At Work
Call Number: VHS00414
by Oliver Hardy; Stan Laurel; Hal Roach; Hal Roach Studios.; Video Treasures (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Batavia, Ohio : Video Treasures, ©1992.
Notes: Originally released between 1932 – 1933 (75 mins.); Short “The Music Box” was nominated for one 1932 Academy Award; Edition contains rare home movie footage collected and narrated by Stan’s daughter Lois Laurel, and photographs of the boys at work and play;
Chapters: Towed in a hole — Busy bodies — The music box.
Summary: In Towed in a Hole the two fish peddlers decide to catch their own fish, so they buy an old boat at a junk yard and fix it up. In Busy Bodies the boys are working in a sawmill where they are continuously cleaning up their own messes. In the Academy Award-winning film The Music Box Stan and Ollie try to haul a piano up a long, long, tremendous flight of steps. This video includes rare home movie footage and photographs of the boys at work and play collected and narrated by Stan’s daughter, Lois Laurel.
OCLC #: 26201258
Added: November 25, 2008
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Pot ‘O Gold

October 21, 2008
Pot ‘O Gold
Call Number: VHS00170
by James Stewart; Paulette Goddard; Horace Heidt; George Marshall; Alpha Video Distributors.;
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Piscataway, NJ : Alpha Video Distributors, ©1995.
Notes: Originally released in 1941 (84 mins.);
Summary: Based on the famous radio money giveaway show of the same name. James Stewart’s uncle hates big band music, but Stewart manages to give Horace Heidt’s band their “big break” by getting them on Uncle’s radio program.
OCLC #: 39916807
Added: October 21, 2008
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