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(0)Katharine Hepburn
Author
Language
English
Description
Celebrate one hundred years of amazing progress made by remarkable women from all over the world in politics, sports, science, and the arts. Meet such heroic figures as Amelia Earhart, Eleanor Roosevelt, Katharine Hepburn, Edith Piaf, Rosa Parks, Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, and Hilary Rodham Clinton. Truly an inspirational chronicle of extraordinary women achieving extraordinary things over the course of the 20th century.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Shows the conflicts between three generations as the Thayers, a crotchety old professor and his wife, spend their summer together on a lake in New England. The couple agrees to mind their estranged daughter's boyfriend's child, while daughter and boyfriend go on a trip. The boy bonds with the old man in a way his daughter never did. Shows the terrors and graces of aging
Series
Criterion collection volume 1085
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 x 70 cm, folded to 12 x 17 cm)
Language
English
Description
"Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made--a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar investment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) as the manic misadventures pile up--a missing dinosaur bone,...
10) Holiday
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An acrobatically inclined free spirit, following a whirlwind engagement, literally tumbles into the lives of his fiancě₂s aristocratic family, setting up a clash of values with her staid father while firing the rebellious imagination of her brash, black-sheep sister. With a sparkling surface and an undercurrent of melancholy, the film is an enchanting ode to nonconformists and pie-in-the-sky dreamers everywhere, as well as a thoughtful reflection...
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000], p1960
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + pamphlet (4 p).
Language
English
Description
A young woman is driven insane after witnessing her cousin's murder by cannibals. The neurosurgeon who tries to help her must also confront her aunt about her involvment in the death
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's reverend was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on a long difficult journey, without any comfort. Rose grows...
13) The Trojan women
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert
Language
English
Description
After the Greek victory in the Trojan War, all the Trojan warriors and princes are slain and the women and children are left to be divided among the conquerors. Beautiful Cassandra is betrothed against her will and despite her vanishing sanity. Andromache discovers that her son is to be executed to end her royal bloodline. Helen desperately wields the arrogant beauty that leveled a city as she pleads for her life. In the end, it is the enduring dignity...
14) Desk set
Series
Studio classic volume 18
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A classic Hepburn-Tracy romance, about the head of the research department at a TV network and an absent-minded computer genius
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (426 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Philadelphia story (1940, 112 min.):A sophisticated romantic comedy about a rich, spoiled socialite who learns some things about who she is and what she really wants on the eve of her second marriage
Bringing up Baby (1938, 102 min.): Crazy comedy about an heiress who is determined to catch a stuffy zoologist and uses her pet leopard, Baby, to help get his attention
Adam's rib (1949, 100 min.): A husband and wife lawyer team clash when the wife...
Language
English
Description
Crusading newspaper publisher Matt Drayton's liberal principles are put to the test when his daughter, Joey, announces her engagement to John Prentice, an internationally renowned African-American physician. While Matt's wife, Christina, readily accepts Joey's decision, Matt intends to withhold his consent, forgetting that when it comes to matters of the heart, true love is colorblind.
19) Grace Quigley
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Grace Quigley has come to the end of her rope and wants out. When she meets a sweet, neurotic hitman, Seymour Flint, she comes up with a brainstorm: The unlikely pair will provide a painless parting for seniors who have had enough of life's slings and arrows. As business booms, Grace and Seymour develop a warm, mother-son relationship, until "mom" begins to have ideas that could put Seymour in the clink for good.