Dr. Ralph H. Wolfe Viewing Center

Call Number: DVD00996

by Sol C Siegel; Joseph L Mankiewicz; Jeanne Crain; Linda Darnell; Ann Sothern; Kirk Douglas; Paul Douglas; Barbara Lawrence; Jeffrey Lynn; Connie Gilchrist; Florence Bates; Hobart Cavanaugh; Arthur C Miller; J Watson Webb; Alfred Newman; Vera Caspary; John Klempner; Christopher Mankiewicz; Kenneth L Geist; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.; 

Language: English  

Publisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2005].

Notes: Originally released in 1949 (103 mins; Black & White); Adapted by Vera Caspary from the novel : Letter to Five Wives / by John Klempner; Nominated for three 1950 Academy Awards; Special features: optional commentary by Christopher Mankiewicz with Joseph L. Mankiewicz biographers Kenneth Geist and Cheryl Lower ; “Linda Darnell: Hollywood’s Fallen Angel”, an A & E Network Biography program (45 min.); Fox Movietone News (Oscar footage); restoration comparison; theatrical trailer (3 min.)

Summary: Slice of Americana about three women on a group vacation receiving a letter from a flirt who has run off with one of their husbands- but who leaves the wives guessing as to whose husband has been stolen.

OCLC #: 57300248

Call Number: VHS01603

by Frank Sinatra; Marlon Brando; Joseph L Mankiewicz; Frank Loesser; Damon Runyon; CBS Fox Video.;

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Livonia, Mich. : CBS/Fox Video, ©1986.

Notes: Videorecording of the 1955 motion picture; copyright renewed in 1983; Based on the musical play “Guys and Dolls” ; based on a collection of short stories by Damon Runyon; Nominated for 4 Academy Award in 1956.

Summary: In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.

OCLC #: 14869727

Added: March 29, 2011

Call Number: VHS01183

by Gore Vidal; Joseph L Mankiewicz; Elizabeth Taylor; Montgomery Clift; Katharine Hepburn; Albert Dekker; Mercedes McCambridge; Gary Raymond; Tennessee Williams; Horizon Pictures (G.B.); Academy Pictures.;

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Culver City, CA : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, ©1986.

Notes: Originally released in 1959 (114 min.); Adapted from the play by Tennessee Williams; Nominated for three 1960 Academy Awards;

Summary:  “Beautiful Catherine Holly is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at the hands of cannibals. Catherine’s aunt, Violet Venable, tries to influence Dr. Cukrowicz, a young neurosurgeon, to surgically end Catherine’s hauting hallucinations. By utilizing injections of sodium pentothal, Dr. Cukrowicz discovers that Catherine’s delusions are in fact true. He then must confront Violet about her own involvement in her son’s lurid death.”–Container.

OCLC #: 65383865

Also: Available on DVD at DVD00514

Added: May 5, 2010

Call Number: DVD00514

by Sam Spiegel; Joseph L Mankiewicz; Gore Vidal; Elizabeth Taylor; Montgomery Clift; Katharine Hepburn; Buxton Orr; Malcolm Arnold; Tennessee Williams; Columbia Pictures.; Horizon Pictures (G.B.); Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Video, [2000], 1960.

Notes: Originally released in 1959 (114 mins.); Adapted from the play by Tennessee Williams; Nominated for three 1960 Academy Awards;

Summary: A young woman is driven insane after witnessing her cousin’s murder by cannibals. The neurosurgeon who tries to help her must also confront her aunt about her involvment in the death.

OCLC #: 423012860