Anne Baxter
Author
Language
English
Description
Granddaughter of renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Anne Baxter, born in Michigan City, IN, (May 7, 1923 - December 12, 1985) was a star of Hollywood films, Broadway productions, and television series. She won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award and a Golden Globe in 1947 for The Razor's Edge, was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar in 1951 for All About Eve, and received an Emmy nomination in 1969. The following is from an interview in 1985....
Author
Language
English
Description
In search of a better life, a German girl named Willie (Anne Baxter) joins an American carnival that is passing through Munich. While traveling, she is torn between two suitors: cruel carnival barker Joe (Steve Cochran) and kindhearted high-dive artist Frank (Lyle Bettger). Frank gets the upper hand when he asks Willie to join his act. But tragedy is only a slip away.
Series
Criterion collection volume 952
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A brilliant, moving portrayal of an aristocratic American family in what many critics consider a masterpiece equal to Citizen Kane. Based on a novel by Booth Tarkington, the drama begins in the 1870s when the Amberson family is at the height of its wealth and prestige. But the day arrives when all the Ambersons are stunned by the truth of their financial ruin.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Joseph L. Mankiewicz's devastatingly witty Hollywood classic, backstage is where the real drama plays out. One night, Margo Channing (Bette Davis) entertains a surprise dressing-room visitor: her most adoring fan, the shy, wide-eyed Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter). But as Eve becomes a fixture in Margo's life, the Broadway legend soon realizes that her supposed admirer intends to use her and everyone in her circle, including George Sanders's acid-tongued...
Language
English
Description
1956 version: To escape the edict that condemned all first-born Hebrew males by Egypt's Pharaoh, Rameses I, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the Pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti's favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri. He also gains the hatred of Seti's son, Rameses. When his Hebrew heritage is revealed, Moses...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rival theater companies compete to produce their own unique versions of Jane Austen's childhood play, 'Sir Charles Grandison'. George Midash buys the plays manuscript at Sotheby's for Pierre, the head of the avant-garde theater troupe. Another troupe, headed by the traditional Lilianna Zorska, strives to produce their own version of the play. In her first role, a young actress is manipulated by Pierre to join his company. When Lilianna decides to...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
2 blu-ray discs (231 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Filmed in Egypt and the Sinai with one of the biggest sets ever constructed for a motion picture, this version tells the story of the life of Moses. Once favored in the Pharaoh's bousehold, Moses turned his back on a privileged life to lead his people to freedom. No celebrating its 55th anniversary, this film has been fully restored.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Full screen ; single-sided.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 382 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Spanning the Civil War through World War I, the story follows three generations of the tumultuous Trask family as it explores the nature of good and evil. Special features include exclusive interview with Jane Seymour, biography of John Steinbeck, and more.
"Jane Seymour ... is superb."--The Boston Globe.
" ... Compelling production for anyone interested in classic American literature ..."--School Library Journal.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Norah Larkin is a working girl who wakes up a murderess after passing out in the apartment of brutish playboy Harry Prebble. Branded "The Blue Gardenia" by a sensational columnist, Norah dodges dragnets, informants and the cruel hand of fate as she struggles to conceal her involvement with Prebble, and to remember the details of her ill-fated night. As her hopes for justice fade, she decides to gamble her future on the journalist who transformed her...
12) The razor's edge
Series
Studio classic volume 30
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Full frame format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (146 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A rich young man spends his time between WWI & WWII searching for essential truth, eventually landing in India.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 382 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adam and Charles Trask grow up in the shadow of their father, Cyrus. Cyrus prefers Adam, inciting jealousy in his younger son. Adam is signed up for the cavalry, while Charles works on the family farm. Reuniting years later, the brothers live in peace until a beautiful woman nearly beaten to death arrives on their front porch. Adam nurses her back to health and falls blindly in love. But Cathy hides a cruel past. Adam and Cathy marry and have twin...
14) Yellow sky
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A band of robbers are running from the law, and they find an almost abandoned town. An old prosecutor and his granddaughter have been living there. Realizing that they have gold, the robbers have a plan of taking it, but one robber turns against them.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Widescreen special collector's ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (220 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lavish Biblical epic that tells the life story of Moses from the time he was discovered in the bulrushes as an infant by the pharaoh's daughter. As an adult, he turns his back on his privileged life in Egypt to lead his true people, the Hebrews, to freedom outside Egypt.
17) Cimarron
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (147 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
April 22, 1889. Tens of thousands of hopeful homesteaders are poised at the Oklahoma border, waiting for the gunshots that will send them on a feverish dash to claim a share of two million acres free for the taking.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
John J. Bramble, the sole survivor of a British tank crew, makes his way to a desolate desert town where he is given refuge by a hotel owner and chambermaid who prepare to receive General Erwin Rommel and his German staff. Posing as the hotel's waiter, Bramble attempts to infiltrate Rommel's inner circle and report the general's plans to the Allies.
19) All about Eve
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great actress Margo Channing. The cunning Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critics see through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit....
20) Homecoming
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A self-centered society doctor goes to war and finds himself changed by it, and falls deeply in love with a nurse, despite having a wife waiting for him at home.