Posts Tagged ‘George Cukor’

Love Among the Ruins

Monday, October 20th, 2008
Love Among the Ruins
Call Number: VHS00145
by Katharine Hepburn; Laurence Olivier; George Cukor; James Costigan; John Barry; Don Black; Colin Blakely; Richard Pearson; Gwen Nelson; Robert Harris; Americian Broadcasting Companies.; CBS Fox Video.; Fox Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Beverly Hills, CA : CBS Fox Video : Fox Video, ©1992.
Notes: Originally aired in 1975 (100 mins.); Nominated for seven 1975 Emmy Awards;
Summary: When an aging beauty is sued for breach of promise by a man young enough to be her grandson, she hires the greatest barrister in England, whom she loved and left when they were both young and poor.
OCLC #: 27881747
Added: October 20, 2008
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Born Yesterday

Monday, October 20th, 2008
Born Yesterday
Call Number: VHS00138
by Garson Kanin; Judy Holliday; William Holden; Broderick Crawford; George Cukor;
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Burbank, CA : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, ©1986.
Notes: Originally released in 1950 (103 mins.); Based on the stage play by Garson Kanin; Nominated for five 1951 Academy Awards;
Summary: A millionaire junk dealer arranges for his unsophisticated girlfriend to take a course in “culture.”
Also: See the later-released version Born Yesterday (VHS00670)
OCLC #: 14709790
Added: October 20, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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Romeo and Juliet

Saturday, October 18th, 2008
 
Romeo and Juliet
Call Number: VHS00127
by Norma Shearer; Leslie Howard; John Barrymore; C Aubrey Smith, Sir; Andy Devine; George Cukor; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Culver City, CA : Distributed by MGM/UA Home Video, [1992].
Notes: Originally released in 1936 (126 mins.); Based on the play by William Shakespeare; Nominated for four 1937 Academy Awards;
Summary: Film adaptation of the Shakespeare play about star-crossed lovers. A truncated version.
Also: See the Franco Zeffirelli version, Romeo & Juliet (VHS00146); the Baz Luhrmann version, Romeo + Juliet (VHS00060); the Alan Horrox version (VHS00752); the Mohamed Camara interpretation, Dakan (VHS00318); the Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise interpretation, West Side Story (VHS00557);
OCLC #: 25565652
Added: October 17, 2008
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Little Women

Thursday, October 16th, 2008
 
Little Women
Call Number: VHS00081
by George Cukor; Katharine Hepburn; Joan Bennett; Frances Dee; Louisa May Alcott; RKO Radio Pictures, inc.;
Format: VHS
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
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A Woman's Face

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
A Woman’s Face
Call Number: VHS00065
by Joan Crawford; Melvyn Douglas; Francis de Croisset; Loew’s Incorporated.; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm); 
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : MGM/UA Home Video, 1992.
Notes: Originally released in 1941 (107 mins.); From the play “Il etait une fois” by Francis de Croisset;
Summary: Anna Holm, a professional blackmailer, despises herself and the world because of a disfiguring facial scar.
OCLC #: 26850682
Added: October 13, 2008
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David Copperfield

Monday, October 6th, 2008
David Copperfield
Call Number: VHS00003
by Lionel Barrymore; W C Fields; Maureen O’Sullivan; Edna May Oliver; Elizabeth Allan; Freddie Bartholomew; Lewis Stone; Roland Young; Madge Evans; George Cukor; David O Selznick; Charles Dickens; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: New York : MGM/UA Home Video and Turner Entertainment, 1990.
Notes: Released in 1935 (131 mins); Based on the book by Charles Dickens;
Summary: David Copperfield enjoys an idyllic life with his gentle, widowed mother and his loving nurse, Peggotty. Then tragedy strikes when Mr. Murdstone weds David’s mother and drives her to an early grave. Despised by his stepfather, the boy is forced to live in misery and poverty until he runs away to throw himself upon the mercy of his eccentric aunt.
Also: See the Delbert Mann directed David Copperfield (DVD00061);
OCLC #: 22851345
Added: October 6, 2008
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