Archive for the ‘Romance’ Category
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Anna Karenina
Call Number: VHS00088
by Leo Tolstoy, graf; Vivien Leigh; Ralph Richardson, Sir; Kieron Moore; London Film Productions.; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.;
Language: English
Publisher: [United States?] : Video Specials, 1990.
Notes: Originally released in 1948 (112 mins) in the UK; Based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy;
Summary: Presents a dramatization of Tolstoy’s novel of passion and family conflict set in 19th century upper-class Russia.
Also: See the Clarence Brown directed Anna Karenina (
VHS00180)
OCLC #: 35573148
Added: October 16, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Black and White, Books on Film, Julien Duvivier
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
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Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park
Call Number: VHS00082
by Ken Taylor; Betty Willingale; David Giles; Anna Massey; Bernard Hepton; Angela Pleasence; Derek Bourgeois; Jane Austen; British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.; Lionheart Television International.; CBS Fox Video.; BBC Video (Firm); Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;
Language: English
Publisher: [Beverly Hills, Calif.] : CBS/Fox Video ; [Alexandria, Va.] : BBC Video ; [Beverly Hills, Calif.] : Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, ©1995.
Notes: Originally aired in 1983 (261 mins.); Based on the novel Mansfield Park by Jane Austen;
Summary: True virtue triumphs over superficiality in this distinguished BBC production of Jane Austen’s celebrated novel set in 18th century England. Young, impoverished Fanny Price arrives at the elegant estate of her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram. Snubbed by everyone except her cousin Edmund, she begins her long struggle for acceptance by her shallow relatives, who believe wealth automatically means quality.
OCLC #: 34885263
Added: October 16, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Books on Film, David Giles, Mini-Series
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Madame Bovary
Call Number: VHS00079
by Pandro S Berman; Vincente Minnelli; Gustave Flaubert; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1983.
Notes: Originally released in 1949 (114 mins.); Nominated for one 1950 Academy Award; Based on Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Summary: A story concerning a woman’s abandoned pursuit of love and the three men who loved her.
OCLC #: 26694575
Added: October 16, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Award, Black and White, Books on Film, Vincente Minnelli
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Becky Sharp
Call Number: VHS00070
by William Makepeace Thackeray; Miriam Hopkins; Frances Dee; Sir Cedric Hardwicke; Billie Burke; Kartes Video Communications.;
Language: English
Publisher: Indianapolis, IN : Kartes Video Communications, [1984]
Notes: Originally released in 1935 (83 mins.); First feature film ever photographed in Technicolor; Edition: Video Film Classics; Nominated for one 1936 Academy Award.
Summary: An adaptation of Thackeray’s Vanity Fair about a hardened orphan who wages war on English society as an ambitious social climber. The first feature photographed in Technicolor.
Also: See the Mira Nair directed Vanity Fair (
DVD00060)
OCLC #: 12373885
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Award, Rouben Mamoulian
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
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Rhythm on the Range
Call Number: VHS00069
by Bing Crosby; Frances Farmer; Bob Burns; Martha Raye; Adolph Zukor; John C Moffitt; Sidney Salkow; Walter DeLeon; Francis Martin; Norman Taurog; Benjamin F Glazer; Boris Morros; Leo Robin; Sam Coslow; Friedrich Hollaender; Richard A Whiting; Ralph Rainger; Paramount Pictures.; MCA Universal Home Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: Universal City, Calif. : MCA Universal Home Video, [1995]
Notes: Originally released in 1936 (88 mins.); Edition includes original theatrical trailer;
Summary: After performing in a rodeo at Madison Square Garden, cowboy Jeff Larrabee is heading back west with his prize bull, Cuddles, when his tranquility is shattered. There’s a runaway in his boxcar: pretty New York heiress Doris Halliday. Doris is fed up with the big city and hankering for romance and the great outdoors. But Jeff’s a hard-to-win kind of guy.
OCLC #: 33216761
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Black and White, Norman Taurog
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
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Shakespeare in Love
Call Number: VHS00064
by Gwyneth Paltrow; Joseph Fiennes; Geoffrey Rush; Colin Firth; Ben Affleck; Judi Dench; John Madden; Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard; Miramax Films.; Universal Pictures (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Miramax Home Entertainment 1998
Notes: Originally released in 1998 (123 mins.); Nominated for 13 Academy Awards; Edition: Miramax films Academy Screening Copy, may contain additional footage; unique box art.
Summary: When Will Shakespeare needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer’s block, a secret romance with the beautiful Lady Viola starts the words flowing like never before
OCLC #: 55959131
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Award, John Madden, Shakespeare
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
Call Number: VHS00060
by Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce; Gabriella Martinelli; Leonardo DiCaprio; Claire Danes; Brian Dennehy; John Leguizamo; Pete Postlethwaite; Paul Sorvino; Diane Venora; William Shakespeare; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.; Fox Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: [Beverly Hills, CA] : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment/Fox Video, ©1997.
Notes: Originally released in 1996 (120 mins.); Nominated for one 1997 Academy Award; Based on the play by William Shakespeare;
Summary: A modern adaptation of the classic love story, moved to the futuristic urban backdrop of Verona Beach.
Also: See the George Cukor version, Romeo and Juliet (
VHS00127); the Franco Zeffirelli version, Romeo & Juliet (
VHS00146); the Alan Horrox version (
VHS00752); the Mohamed Camara interpretation, Dakan (
VHS00318); the Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise interpretation, West Side Story (
VHS00557);
OCLC #: 36709304
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Award, Baz Luhrmann, Crime, Shakespeare
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
San Antonio
Call Number: VHS00053
by Errol Flynn; Alexis Smith;
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : MGM/UA Home Video, 1991.
Notes: Originially released in 1945 (107 mins.); Nominated for two Academy Awards;
Summary: A beautiful dance-hall girl, working for the bad guy, falls in love with the good guy.
OCLC #: 23807790
Added: October 6, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Award, David Butler
Posted in Film Catalog, Romance, Western | Comments Closed
Monday, October 13th, 2008
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A Room with a View
Call Number: VHS00050
by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; James Ivory; Ismail Merchant; Maggie Smith; Denholm Elliott; Judi Dench; Simon Callow; Helena Bonham Carter; Julian Sands; Daniel Day-Lewis; E M Forster; Cinecom International Films.; CBS Fox Video.;
Language: English
Publisher: Beverly Hills, CA : CBS/Fox Video, ©1992.
Notes: Released as a film in England in 1985; (117 mins); Based on the novel by E.M. Forster; Nominated for eight 1987 Academy Awards;
Summary: Tells the story of the coming of age of Lucy Honeychurch. Longing to burst free from the repression of British upper class manners and mores, she must wrestle with her inner romantic longings to choose between the passionate George and the priggish but socially suitable Cecil.
OCLC #: 41571263
Also: Available in DVD format at DVD00017.
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Award, Books on Film, James Ivory
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
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William Wyler’s The Heiress
Call Number: VHS00047 Copy 1
VHS00047 Copy 2
by William Wyler; Ruth Goetz; Augustus Goetz; Olivia De Havilland; Montgomery Clift; Ralph Richardson, Sir; Miriam Hopkins; Mona Freeman; Vanessa Brown; Selena Royle; Henry James;
Language: English
Publisher: Copy 1: EMKA; MCA Home Video, Inc.: 1985
Copy 2: Universal City, CA : MCA Home Video, 1992.
Notes: Originally released in 1949 (115 mins.); Nominated for eight Academy Awards; From the play by Ruth & Augustus Goetz & the novel “Washington Square” by Henry James;
Summary: A wealthy girl falls in love with a penniless man her father is sure only wants her for her money. When she plans to elope, her father threatens to disinherit her. Will she still go through with the marriage?
OCLC #: 80155105
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Award, Black and White, Books on Film, William Wyler
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