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Call Number: DVD00379

by Bette Davis; Leslie Howard; Frances Dee; Alan Hale; John Cromwell; Lester Cohen; Max Steiner; W Somerset Maugham; Madacy Entertainment Group.; RKO Radio Pictures, inc.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: St. Laurent, Que., Canada : Distributed by Madacy Entertainment Group, ©2001.

Notes: Originally released in 1934 (83 mins.); based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham; edition includes a newsreel, blooper reel, the original lobby poster and a trivia quiz; Nominated for one 1935 Academy Award;

Summary: Philip Carey, a young medical student in Edwardian London, becomes infatuated with a cheap and vulgar cockney waitress, an affair which leads them both into mutual destruction.

Also: Available in VHS format (VHS00553)

OCLC #: 53167963

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

Call Number: VHS00631

by John Carradine; Tyrone Power; George Sanders; Gene Tierney; Frances Farmer; Roddy McDowall; Darryl Francis Zanuck; John Cromwell; Philip Dunne; Edison Marshall; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; Fox Video (Firm);

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: [Beverly Hills, Calif.] : Fox Video, [1994]

Notes: Originally released in 1941 (99 mins.); Edition includes original theatrical trailer; Based on the novel “Benjamin Blake” by Edison Marshall;

Summary: Entitled to inherit his deceased father’s estate and title, child aristocrat Benjamin Blake is instead kept as a bond-servant to his villainous uncle. When Blake, now a young man, is beaten for falling in love with his uncle’s daughter, he escapes by ship where he learns of a pearl fortune on a South Pacific island. There, he leads an idyllic life with a native girl until he is compelled to return home and recapture what is rightfully owed him

OCLC #: 30635897

Call Number: VHS00553

by Leslie Howard; Bette Davis; W Somerset Maugham; Memory Lane Video.;

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Olla, LA. : Memory Lane Video, 1984.

Notes: Originally released in 1934 (83 mins.); Based on W. Somerset Maugham’s novel; Nominated for one 1935 Academy Award;

Summary: A story about a crippled medical student and his agonized and destructive attachment to a vulgar London waitress.

Also: Available in DVD format (DVD00379);

OCLC #: 13776573

Call Number: VHS00469

by John Cromwell; Oliver H P Garrett; Steve Fisher; Allen Rivkin; Gerald Drayson Adams; Sidney Biddell; Humphrey Bogart; Lizabeth Scott; Morris Carnovsky; Columbia Pictures Corporation.; Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm);

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Video, ©1992.

Notes: Originally released in 1947 (100 mins.);

Summary: An ex-G.I. tries to find out who framed his pal for murder — and then rubbed him out! While tracking his war buddy’s shadowy past, the G.I. becomes involved with the mysterious night club singer who had once been his pal’s sweetheart.

OCLC #: 148111707

Format: VHS

Also: See The King and I (VHS00128) & (DVD00290)

Added: October 16, 2008