Bette Davis
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
©1983
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 240 pages, 96 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Winner of eight Oscars for costume design, the author describes some of the hundreds of productions she worked on and gives her personal impressions of the actors and actresses for whom she created costumes.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Two-disc special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 133 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a decaying Hollywood mansion, Jane Hudson, a former child star, and her sister Blanche, a movie queen forced into retirement after a crippling accident, live in virtual isolation.
3) Marked woman
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video, Inc
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A crusading prosecutor uses a prostitute to indict mobster Johnny Vanning. Inspired by the real-life saga of prostitutes whose testimony put Lucky Luciano behind bars.
Series
Studio classic volume 32
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 132 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A southern belle finds out the truth about her husband's murder when her cousin reopens the case.
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...
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Famed author Sheridan Whiteside possesses a tongue dipped in venom and a brain that can crack The New York Times crossword in four minutes. On a lecture tour in Ohio, he slips on the ice and is confined to the home of a bourgeois couple. He proceeds to plunge the household into chaos, ruling the place like a czar and meddling in everyone's love life.--Container
7) Now, voyager
Series
Criterion collection volume 1004
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (117 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (31 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
Nervous spinster Charlotte Vale is stunted from growing up under the heel of her puritanical Boston Brahmin mother and remains convinced of her own unworthiness until a kindly psychiatrist gives her the confidence to venture out into the world on a South American cruise. Onboard, she finds her footing with the help of an unhappily married man. Their thwarted love affair may help Charlotte break free of her mother's grip, but will she find fulfillment...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An aging apple seller poses as a wealthy grande dame to help her daughter marry into a legitimately wealthy family. A comic collection of gangsters help her in her charade.
9) Jezebel
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Julie Marsden is a Southern belle in pre-Civil War New Orleans with a knack for manipulating the men in her life. Scorned by the man she loves, she lashes out in revenge and destroys lives in the process.
11) Of human bondage
Publisher
Westlake Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The poignant story of a cripped medical student's feverish love for a sluttish waitress.
12) The letter
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set on a rubber plantation in Malaya, this story centers on a woman's reasons for killing a man who was a close family friend.
13) Dead ringer
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sibling twins are caught in a web of jealousy and murder in this goosebumpy thriller.
14) Now, voyager
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young woman escapes the smothering influence of her wealthy and very conservative mother through the help of a psychiatrist and an ocean cruise, where she finds love, which helps her to become her own person.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two elderly sisters who have spent sixty summers on a Maine island together must finally decide whether to give up their family home, independence and life together.
17) Dark victory
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005, 1939
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A beautiful and headstrong heiress suddenly learns that she has only six months to live. Defiant and rebellious at first, she conquers this stroke of fate by the power of great love and ultimately finds peace and happiness in the brief span of life allotted to her.
18) The great lie
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tempestuous and ambitious concert pianist Sandra Kovac shares a bond with down-to-earth Maggie Van Allen and her little boy, Pete. Sandra's chic New York friends can't imagine what the two women have in common. What they don't know is that Pete is Sandra's son - the son of the heroic aviator both women love.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A rundown diner bakes in the Arizona heat. Inside, fugitive killer Duke Mantee sweats out a manhunt, holding disillusioned writer Alan Squier, young waitress Gabby Maple, and a handful of others hostage.