Posts Tagged ‘Award’
Friday, October 17th, 2008
Million Dollar Mermaid
Call Number: VHS00107
by Mervyn LeRoy; Arthur Hornblow; Everett Freeman; Busby Berkeley; Esther Williams; Victor Mature; Walter Pidgeon; David Brian; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; Turner Entertainment Co.;
Language: English
Publisher: [S.l.] : Turner Entertainment Co. ; Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, 1989.
Notes: Originally released in 1952 (111 mins.); Edition includes the original theatrical release trailer for Neptune’s Daughter; Nominated for one 1953 Academy Award
Summary: Esther Williams portrays Annette Kellerman, the Australian swimmer, who created a scandal in 1902 by introducing the one-piece bathing suit to America.
OCLC #: 20851003
Added: October 17, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Award, Mervyn LeRoy
Posted in Biography, Film Catalog, Musical | Comments Closed
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Forever Amber
Call Number: VHS00101 Copy 1
VHS00101 Copy 2
by Philip Dunne; Ring Lardner; Jerry Cady; Kathleen Winsor; Linda Darnell; Cornel Wilde; Richard Greene; George Sanders; William Perlberg; Otto Preminger; Fox Video (Firm); Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.;
Language: English
Publisher: [Beverly Hills, Calif.] : Fox Video, [1994]
Notes: Originally released in 1947 (140 mins.); Based on the book by Kathleen Winsor; Nominated for one 1948 Academy Award;
Summary: Amber, a village maid, is left alone to bear the child of Bruce Carlton, a gallant adventurer whom she loves. Determined to win him by gaining stature and title, the calculating Amber has an affair with a captain, marries a wealthy earl and even becomes mistress to the King.
OCLC #: 31258636
Added: October 16, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Award, Otto Preminger
Posted in Drama, Film Catalog | Comments Closed
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
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Gladiator
Call Number: VHS00097
by Russell Crowe; Joaquin Phoenix; Connie Nielsen; Oliver Reed; Derek Jacobi; Djimon Hounsou; Richard Harris; Ridley Scott; David Franzoni; John Logan; William Nicholson; Dreamworks Pictures.; Universal Pictures (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: Universal City, CA : DreamWorks Home Entertainment : Distributed by DVS Home Video, [2001]
Notes: Originally released in 2000 (155 mins.); Nominated for 12 2001 Academy Awards;
Summary: A Roman general refuses to transfer his loyalty to the new emperor, Commodus, and suffers the consequences, winding up as a gladiator in the Roman Colosseum.
OCLC #: 48651460
Added: October 16, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Award, Ridley Scott
Posted in Action, Drama, Film Catalog | Comments Closed
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
The American Film Institute Life Achievement Awards: Frank Capra
Call Number: VHS00095
by Frank Capra; American Film Institute.;
Language: English
Publisher: [New York] : Worldvision Home Video, 1991, 1982.
Notes: Originally aired in 1982 (71 mins.); Nominated for one 1982 Primetime Emmy;
Summary: Surveys the films and career of Frank Capra and honors him with a ceremony filled with remembrances of co-workers and admirers.
OCLC #: 48607676
Added: October 16, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Award, Black and White, Film-Making, Frank Capra, George Stevens Jr., Retrospective
Posted in Documentary, Film Catalog | Comments Closed
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
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Anna and the King of Siam
Call Number: VHS00090
by Irene Dunne; Rex Harrison; Linda Darnell; Margaret Landon; Louis D Lighton; John Cromwell; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.;
Language: English
Publisher: [Beverly Hills, Calif.] : FoxVideo, 1994.
Notes: Originally released in 1946 (129 mins.); Nominated for five 1947 Academy Awards; Based on the biography by Margaret Landon; Edition includes original trailer;
Summary: The story of the King of Siam and the strong-willed English widow who teaches him how to live in a modern world, while educating the king’s harem and children.
OCLC #: 29902031
Added: October 16, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Award, Black and White, Books on Film, John Cromwell
Posted in Biography, Drama, Film Catalog | Comments Closed
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
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Jerry Maguire
Call Number: VHS00089
by Tom Cruise; Cuba Gooding; Renée Zellweger; Kelly Preston; Jerry O’Connell; Jay Mohr; Bonnie Hunt; Cameron Crowe; Tri-Star Pictures.; Gracie Films.; Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: [Culver City, Calif.] : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1997.
Notes: Originally released in 1996 (139 mins.); Nominated for five 1997 Academy Awards;
Summary: A sports agent suddenly discovers his scruples and promptly loses his job. But with the help of one loyal colleague and one outrageous client, he learns that loving well is the best revenge.
OCLC #: 36967951
Added: October 16, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Award, Cameron Crowe
Posted in Drama, Film Catalog, Romance | Comments Closed
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Rebecca
Call Number: VHS00083 Copy 1
VHS00083 Copy 2
by Laurence Olivier; Joan Fontaine; David O Selznick; Judith Anderson, Dame; Alfred Hitchcock; Daphne Du Maurier, Dame; Selznick Studios.; Key Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: Copy 1: Livionia, MI : Key Video, ©1988.; Copy 2: Beverly Hills, CA : CBS/Fox Video, ©1992.
Notes: Originally released in 1940 (131 mins.); Nominated for 11 1941 Academy Awards; Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier;
Summary: A young bride is brought by her new husband to his manor house in England. There she finds that the memory of her husband’s first wife haunts her, and she tries to discover the secret of that mysterious woman’s death.
OCLC #: Copy 1: 17626322; Copy 2: 39248160
Added: October 16, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Alfred Hitchcock, Award, Black and White, Books on Film
Posted in Drama, Film Catalog, Thriller | Comments Closed
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
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Little Women
Call Number: VHS00081
by George Cukor; Katharine Hepburn; Joan Bennett; Frances Dee; Louisa May Alcott; RKO Radio Pictures, inc.;
Language: English
Publisher: New York : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1983.
Notes: Originally released in 1933 (116 mins.); Nominated for three 1934 Academy Awards; Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott;
Summary: The story of four sisters who grow up in Massachusetts during the Civil War. The story follows their joys and sorrows as they become the “little women” their father so proudly calls them.
OCLC #: 20237395
Also: See the later-released movie adaptation Little Women directed by Mervyn LeRoy ( VHS00348) or the even later-released movie adaptation Little Women directed by Gillian Armstrong ( VHS00017)
Added: October 16, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Award, Black and White, Books on Film, George Cukor
Posted in Comedy, Drama, Film Catalog | Comments Closed
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Forbidden Planet
Call Number: VHS00080
by Nicholas Nayfack; Fred McLeod Wilcox; Leslie Nielsen; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, inc.; MGM/UA Home Video.;
Language: English
Publisher: N.Y., NY : MGM/UA Home Video, 1983.
Notes: Originally released in 1956 (98 mins.); Nominated for one 1957 Academy Award
Summary: After traveling to another planet in the year 2200 in search of survivors of an earlier expedition, a group of scientific explorers encounter one of the missing scientists and his daughter, and are terrorized by a giant dog-like menace that is the product of the scientist’s subconscious mind.
OCLC #: 84246980
Added: October 16, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Award, Fred M. Wilcox
Posted in Drama, Film Catalog, Science Fiction | Comments Closed
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
Posted in Drama, Film Catalog, Romance | Comments Closed
