Fiddler on the roof

March 23, 2011
Fiddler on the Roof
Call Number: VHS01563 Copy 1
VHS01563 Copy 2
by: Topol; Norma Crane; Leonard Frey; Molly Picon; Paul Mann; Isaac Stern; Norman Jewison; Jerry Bock; Jerome Robbins; Mirisch Production Company.; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1988.
Notes: Released in 1971. Adapted from the stage play and Sholom Aleichem’s story “Tevye and his Daughters” by Joseph Stein; 2 videocassettes (VHS) (180 min.) Nominated for 8 Academy Awards in 1972
Summary: Tevye is a poor Jewish milkman with five unmarried daughters to support in a village in Czarist Russia. With a sharp tongued wife at home and growing anti-Semitism in the village, Tevye talks to God about his troubles. His people’s traditions keep him strong when his existence is as precariously balanced as a fiddler on the roof.
OCLC #:516451763
Added: March 23, 2011
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Best Friends

February 9, 2011
Best Friends
Call Number: DVD00672
by: Norman Jewison; Patrick Palmer; Valerie Curtin; Barry Levinson; Burt Reynolds; Goldie Hawn; Jessica Tandy; Barnard Hughes; Audra Lindley; Keenan Wynn; Ron Silver; Jordan Cronenweth; Josan F Russo; Don Zimmerman; Michel Legrand; Betsy Cox; Warner Bros.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:   Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2004]
Notes: Originally released in 1982 (109 mins.); Nominated for one 1983 accademy award;
Summary: Two screenwriters decide to marry after years of working together. Based on the lives of Barry Levinson and Valerie Curtin.
OCLC #: 54450156
Added: February 9, 2011
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Agnes of God

February 4, 2011
Agnes of God
Call Number: VHS01458
by :  Norman Jewison; Patrick Palmer; Jane Fonda; Anne Bancroft; Meg Tilly; John Pielmeier; Columbia Pictures Corporation.; Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm)
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher:Burbank, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, ©1993]
Notes: Based upon the stage play by John Pielmeier. Videocassette release of the 1985 motion picture (98 min). Specially produced with closed captioning for the hearing- impaired. Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. “60563”.
 Summary:When, at an isolated convent, the infant of a young nun is found strangled, a court-appointed psychiatrist must decide if the devout but troubled girl is fit to stand trial.
OCLC #:37161307
Added: February 4, 2011
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Moonstruck

March 23, 2010
Moonstruck
Call Number: VHS01023
VHS01023 Copy 2
by John Patrick Shanley; Cher; Norman Jewison; Patrick Palmer; Nicolas Cage; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayyer Inc., ©1987.
Notes: Originally released in 1987 (103 min.); Nominated for six 1988 academy awards;
Summary: The story centres on Loretta Castorini (Cher), a dowdy widow who tries to patch up the estrangement between her timid fiance (Danny Aiello) and his younger brother Ronny (Nicholas Cage), by personally inviting her prospective bother-in-law to the wedding.
OCLC #: 137302899, 221884066
Added: March 23, 2010
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…And Justice for All

February 17, 2010
And Justice for All
Call Number: VHS00974
by Al Pacino; Jack Warden; John Forsythe; Lee Strasberg; Norman Jewison; Valerie Curtin; Barry Levinson; Patrick J Palmer; Columbia Pictures.; Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1993.
Notes: Originally released in 1979 (120 mins.); Nominated for two 1980 Academy Awards;
Summary: A young lawyer battles not only one-on-one injustice in the courts, but the whole system as well.
OCLC #: 34058799
Added: February 17, 2010
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Only You

Only You or Just in Time or Him
Call Number: VHS00960
by Marisa Tomei; Robert Downey; Norman Jewison; Tri-Star Pictures.; Fried/Woods Films.; Yorktown Productions, Ltd.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: [Culver City, Calif.] : Columbia TriStar Home Video, ©1997.
Notes: Originally released in 1994 (109 mins.);
Summary: A young woman flies to Italy with her best friend in search of the man she believes she’s destined to marry.
OCLC #: 37978559
Added: February 17, 2010
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A Soldier’s Story

October 13, 2008
A Soldier’s Story
Call Number: VHS00061
VHS00061 Copy 2
by Howard E. Rollins, Jr.; Adolph Caesar; Norman Jewison; Columbia-Delphi Productions.; RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: [Burbank, CA] : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, ©1985.
Notes: Orginially released in 1984 (102 mins.); Based on Charles Fuller’s play, A soldier’s play; Nominated for three 1985 Academy Awards;
Summary: Near the end of World War II a proud, black army attorney is sent to Fort Neal, Louisiana, to investigate the murder of Master Sgt. Waters, a vicious, bitter man who despised his own black roots.
OCLC #: 23377319
Added: October 13, 2008
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The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming

October 9, 2008
The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming
Call Number: VHS00024 copy 1
VHS00024 copy 2
by Norman Jewison; William Rose; Carl Reiner; Eva Marie Saint; Alan Arkin; Brian Keith; Jonathan Winters; Theodore Bikel; Paul Ford; Nathaniel Benchley; Mirisch Corporation.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: [Culver City, Calif.] : MGM/UA Home Video, [1992]
Notes: Orginially released in 1965 (127 mins.); Nominated for four Academy Awards; Based on the novel by Nathaniel Benchley.
Summary: A Russian submarine grounded on a New England sandbar is mistaken for an invasion force by the over-imaginative townspeople.
OCLC #: 42006138
Added: October 9, 2008
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