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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Hapless nightclub hatcheck boy Red Skelton loves glamorous chanteuse Lucille Ball. Handsome hoofer Gene Kelly loves her too. And Lucy? Lucy loves money. Then Red mistakenly gulps down a Mickey Finn and dreams he's in 18th-century France. Before you can powder your wig, a throng of suitors--Red, Gene, King Louis XV, a dashing rebel, a sinister duke and just about everybody--loves Lucy! This glittery, tune-filled bonbon features a supporting cast of...
63) Stage door
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Standard version.
Language
English
Description
The film depicts the fears, setbacks and daily struggles of aspiring young performers, and, for the very few, stardom and success.
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
For twenty years Ed Sullivan brought the best entertainment into American living rooms on the variety show that bore his name (originally titled The Toast of the Town). From up-and-coming rock stars to the best of Broadway, Ed introduced us to some sensational musical acts-but he had a knack for comedy, as well. No other collection in history brings viewers this incredible variety of top-named performers. Adapted from the container.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The admiral was a lady: Romantic comedy featuring an officer, jean Madison, nicknamed "The Admiral, " who captured the attentions of three lovable losers. (1950, 85 min.) -- All over town: When Ole and Chic learn that Joan Eldridge is going to lose the theater, where they're employed and which was left to Joan by her father, the comedy team plans a fund-raising gala, featuring Sally the Singing Seal. (1937, 51 min.) -- Behave yourself!: A stray Welsh...
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The big street: Nightclub singer Gloria Lyons is an abrasive, selfish woman who is crippled by gangster Barton MacLane. Busboy Little Pinks, who has idolized the singer, takes pity on Lyons and unselfishly devotes himself to her welfare.
Critic's choice: New York critic Parker Ballantine enjoys writing poison-pen reviews that close lousy plays. Now that his wife has written a play, what will he say about it?
Dance, girl, dance: Aspiring ballerina...
68) Without love
Series
Katharine Hepburn 100th anniversary collection volume disc 2
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Pat Jamieson is a scientist working on a high-altitude oxygen mask for World War II fighter pilots. He has nowhere to conduct his research until he meets Jamie Rowan, a woman with a large empty country house. She has no hopes of marrying for love but Jamie wants to help the war effort and she likes Pat, so to satisfy the proprieties they agree on a business arrangement: a marriage of convenience and partnership. They happily work on oxygen mixes instead...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1028
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
Dorothy Arzner, the sole woman to work as a director in the Hollywood studio system of the '30s and early '40s, brings a subversive feminist sensibility to this juicily entertaining backstage melodrama. A behind-the-footlights look at friendship, jealousy, and ambition in the ruthless world of show business, Dance, Girl, Dance follows the intertwining fates of two chorus girls.
70) Happy Halloween
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"This collection of radio's happiest Halloween moments is replete with good old-fashioned haunted houses, costume parties, cemeteries, tricks and treats ... wholesome, family-oriented on-air All Hallows' Eve comedy celebration ..."--Container.
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This collection contains twelve of the greatest comedy shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio. You'll hear Ozzie and Harriet Nelson in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll as Amos 'n' Andy, Robert Young in Father Knows Best, Jim and Marian Jordan as Fibber McGee and Molly, William Bendix as Chester A. Riley in The Life of Riley, Lucille Ball in My Favorite Husband, Eve Arden as English teacher Connie...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a movie actress Lucille Ball was, in her own words, "queen of the B-pluses." But on the small screen she was a superstar-arguably the funniest and most enduring in the history of TV. In this exemplary biography, Stefan Kanfer explores the roots of Lucy's genius and places it in the context of her conflicted and sometimes bitter personal life.
Ball of Fire gives us Lucy in all her contradictions. Here is the beauty who became a master of knock-down...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Everyone loved Lucy, the scheming, madcap redhead who ruled television for more than twenty years. In life, however, Lucille Ball presented a far more complex and contradictory personality than was ever embodied by the television Lucy. In Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball Kathleen Brady presents the actress as a fully rounded human being, often at odds with the image she presented as an entertainment icon. Brady has gone far beyond the typical celebrity...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"This indelible romance begins with a daring conceit--that the author's grandfather may have had an affair with Lucille Ball. Strauss offers a fresh view of a celebrity America loved more than any other. Lucille Ball--the most powerful woman in the history of Hollywood--starred in America's first big-time interracial marriage. She owned more movie sets than did any movie studio. And she more or less single-handedly created the modern tv business....
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Full of fresh perspective, gorgeously designed, and richly informative, this is a book on Lucille Ball like none other. With profiles spotlighting the many different facets of the woman, AKA Lucy details how Ball changed the face of comedy and the entertainment industry. It sheds new light on the star's history, from her childhood through hard-scrabble days trying to make it in show business, falling head over heels in love and embarking on one of...
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