Archive for the ‘Romance’ Category
Monday, October 13th, 2008
George Stevens’ The More the Merrier
Call Number: VHS00044
by George Cooper Stevens; Jean Arthur; Joel McCrea; Charles Coburn; Columbia Pictures Corporation.; RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, [1990]
Notes: Originally released in 1943 (104 mins.); Nominated for six 1944 Academy Awards;
Summary: Comedy set during World War II about a single working girl who, because of a significant housing shortage, sublets part of her Washington D.C. apartment to two men. Preceeded to previews of others in the series.
OCLC #: 42508131
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Award, Black and White, George Stevens
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
Adventure
Call Number: VHS00042
by Clark Gable; Greer Garson; Victor Fleming; Frederick Hazlitt Brennan; Vincent Lawrence; Joan Blondell; Thomas Mitchell; Tom Tully; John Qualen; Richard Haydn; Lina Romay; Philip Merivale; Harry Davenport; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: Santa Monica, Calif. : MGM/UA Home Video, 1994.
Notes: Originally released in 1945 (125 mins); based on a novel by Clyde Brion Davis;
Summary: Harry Patterson, a merchant marine with a swagger in his walk, a girl in every port and a hidden philosophical bent. While on shore leave, he goes with his buddy Mudgin to a most unlikely place … the library! There, he meets reference expert Emily Sears. She is the picture of ladylike decorum, and she hates Harry on sight. She continues to hate him, almost until the moment she marries him! Then, Harry tells her he’s shipping out again, and Emily decides that she’s made a big mistake. But she can’t forget him. What woman could?
OCLC #: 30561306
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Black and White, Books on Film, Victor Fleming
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Lady Caroline Lamb
Call Number: VHS00027
by Robert Bolt; Sarah Miles; Richard Chamberlain; Margaret Leighton; Laurence Olivier; Jon Finch;
Language: English
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Prism Entertainment, 1986, ©1972.
Notes: Originally released in 1972 (123 mins.);
Summary: Follows the life of Lady Caroline through her affairs with the poet Lord Byron and the Duke of Wellington to her tragic end.
OCLC #: 15101995
Added: October 9, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Robert Bolt
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Roxie Hart
Call Number: VHS00025
by Ginger Rogers; Adolphe Menjou; George Montgomery; William Frawley; Nunnally Johnson; William Augustus Wellman; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; Fox Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Fox Video, 1995.
Notes: Originally released in 1942 (75 mins.); Based on the Broadway play Chicago;
Summary: After her husband shoots a burglar in their apartment, Roxie Hart is talked into pretending she did it by a newsman and a theatricl agent who promise to sign her for a vaudeville tour. Realizing she’ll become a houshold name overnight, Roxie agrees and becomes the center of an outrageous trial.
OCLC #: 33901242
Added: October 9, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Black and White, Crime, William A. Wellman
Posted in Comedy, Film Catalog, Romance | Comments Closed
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
A Handful of Dust
Call Number: VHS00022
by Charles Sturridge; James Wilby; Kristin Scott-Thomas; Rupert Graves; Anjelica Huston; Judi Dench; Alec Guinness; Evelyn Waugh; New Line Cinema Corporation.; Stagescreen Productions.; New Line Home Video (Firm); Turner Home Entertainment (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: [S.l.] : New Line Home Video : Sold exclusively by Turner Home Entertainment, ©1995.
Notes: Originally released in 1988 (118 mins.); Nominated for one Academy Award; based on the novel by Evelyn Waugh
Summary: A tale of upper class British lives in which the husband in a seemingly perfect marriage invites a penniless socialite for a weekend stay. The result is passion, infidelity, and death.
OCLC #: 34794171
Added: October 9, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Award, Books on Film, Charles Sturridge
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
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Sense and Sensibility
Call Number: VHS00020 Copy 1
VHS00020 Copy 2
by Ang Lee; Emma Thompson; Kate Winslet; Alan Rickman; Hugh Grant; Lindsay Doran; Sydney Pollack; Jane Austen;
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Video, ©1995. (Copy 2 is copyrighted 1996)
Notes: Originally released in 1995 (136 mins); Nominated for seven Academy Awards; Based on the novel by Jane Austen.
Summary: The Dashwood sisters, sensible Eleanor and passionate Marianne, find their chances at marriage seemingly doomed by their family’s sudden loss of fortune.
OCLC #: 83905754
Added: October 9, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Ang Lee, Award, Books on Film
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
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The Lady Eve
Call Number: VHS00016
by Paul Jones; Preston Sturges; Barbara Stanwyck; Henry Fonda; Charles Coburn; Eugene Pallette; William Demarest; Eric Blore; Melville Cooper; Martha O’Driscoll; Janet Beecher; Monckton Hoffe; Paramount Pictures.; MCA Universal Home Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: [Universal City, CA] : MCA Universal Home Video, ©1993.
Notes: Originally released in 1941 (93 mins); Nominated for one Academy Award;
Summary: Stanwyck portrays a calculating card shark who fleeces passengers on transatlantic ocean liners. When she discovers that an ingenuous young millionaire is on board, she figures he’ll be a pushover if she plays her cards right. Sure enough, he does fall for her, but surprise–she also falls for him. When he’s tipped off that true romance is not in the cards because she’s giving him a fast shuffle, his fondness fades. Now she realizes that if she wants to win him back, she’s got to stop her double-dealing, and she does but not before she turns up a few tricks of her own.
OCLC #: 33152219
Added: October 9, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Award, Black and White, Preston Sturges
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Call Number: VHS00015
by Frank Capra; Robert Riskin; Gene Havlick; Howard Jackson; Clarence Budington Kelland; Gary Cooper; Jean Arthur; George Bancroft; Lionel Stander; Douglass Dumbrille; Raymond Walburn; Columbia Pictures Corporation.; RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, [1989]
Notes: Originally released in 1936 (115 mins); Nominated for five 1937 Academy Awards
Summary: Comedy about Longfellow Deeds, a small-town poet who inherits $20 million from his uncle and is promptly declared insane by petty moochers, relatives, conniving lawyers and big business executives; they all want a piece of the pie and are upset because Longfellow decides to give the money away to needy people.
OCLC #: 42506599
Also: This item is also available on DVD format at
DVD00014
Added: October 9, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Award, Black and White, Frank Capra
Posted in Comedy, Film Catalog, Romance | Comments Closed
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
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A Room with a View
Call Number: DVD00017 Copy 1
DVD00017 Copy 2
by Ismail Merchant; Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; James Ivory; Maggie Smith; Denholm Elliott; Judi Dench; Simon Callow; Helena Bonham Carter; Julian Sands; Daniel Day-Lewis; E M Forster; Tony Pierce-Roberts; Merchant Ivory Productions.; Goldcrest Films International.; National Film Finance Corporation (Great Britain); Curzon Film Distributors.; Film Four International.; BBC Video (Firm); Warner Home Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: BBC Video ; Burbank, CA : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video, ©2004.
Notes: Two-disc special edition DVD (117 mins); Based on the novel by E.M. Forster; Released as a film in England in 1985; Special features: disc 1. new restoration supervised by director James Ivory and cinematographer Tony Pierce-Roberts; commentary from Simon Callow, Ismail Merchant, James Ivory and Tony Pierce-Roberts; disc 2. archive promotional appearances by Daniel Day-Lewis and Simon Callow; BBC report on the film’s success in the U.S.; E.M. Forster remembered; film scrapbook with never-before-seen photos and memorabilia; Merchant Ivory tribute; 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 #: 54810705
Also: Available in VHS format at VHS00050.
Added: October 6, 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 6th, 2008
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Persuasion
Call Number: VHS00002
by Roger Michell; Nick Dear; Amanda Root; Ciaran Hinds; Jane Austen; BBC Films.; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.); Millésime Productions.; Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Video, [1995]
Notes: Based on the novel by Jane Austen; Originally broadcast in 1995;
Summary: Anne and Wentworth’s passion is thwarted by a scheming socialite. Eight years later, when Anne is considered an old maid and her once-rich family is on the verge of bankruptcy, Wentworth returns.
OCLC #: 34507979
Added: October 6, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Books on Film, Roger Michell
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