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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 73 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In this classic screwball comedy, newspaperman Frederic March makes a national heroine of a smalltown bumpkin (Carole Lombard) diagnosed with a fatal illness ... but her doctor's assessment turns out to be wrong.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four red plaid traveling cases-- one of each belonging to a befuddled Iowa musicologist, a strange but bright young woman, a rich matron and a suspicious fellow-- are mixed up at a San Francisco hotel, with hilarious results.
4) Overboard
Publisher
Pantelion Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 112 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Leonardo, a wealthy businessman, has a yachting accident and develops amnesia, an ill-treated employee exacts some revenge. Kate is a single mom who manages to convince Leonardo that she is his wife. Hilarity ensues as Leonardo must take on the task of helping Kate raise her three daughters. Will Kate's plan succeed to perfection, or will she discover that Leonardo isn't such a bad guy after all? It's classic role reversal in this remake of an...
Language
English
Description
"Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts greet him with love, sweetness ... and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who's a dead ringer for Boris Karloff, and a seriously slippery...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 374 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Disc 1: Theodora goes wild: A small-time author whose racy bestsellers, written under a pseudonym, bring her notoriety when a New Yorker discovers her secret. Together again: The mayor's widow falls for a sculptor as he works on a statue of her late husband.
Disc 2: The doctor takes a wife: A feminist writer forced to pretend she's married to a man whom she loathes. A night to remember: A woman and her mystery writer husband take an apartment in...
Series
Language
English
Description
Follows the madcap antics of a ditzy debutante who stumbles upon a 'forgotten man' at the city dump. Determined to help Godfrey out, she offers him work in her household and he soon becomes the perfect butler for her eccentric family. As the family's antics grow increasingly more absurd, it is only a matter of time before Godfrey's secret past is revealed.
8) Overboard
Language
English
Formats
Description
A bored super-rich woman falls off her yacht and into the life of a carpenter with four children in need of attention.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's two weddings and somebody's funeral when a pair of just-married couples discovers that both parties have booked the same reception hall on the same day at the same time. In this delightful screwball comedy, the bride and the groom are falling in love. Which is great, except that they've just tied the knot with someone else.
10) Bringing up Baby
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Two-disc special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (102 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An heiress determined to catch a zoologist uses her pet leopard, Baby, to get his attention.
Series
Publisher
Allegro Corp
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (6 hr., 13 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Made for each other: Romantic drama about a young couple's struggles in their first year of marriage.
Nothing sacred: A newspaper reporter tries to redeem himself after a hoax by writing a series of stories about a woman he believes is dying.
Life with Father: Family life in New York City during the 1880s through a series of amusing anecdotes including the wife's desperate attempts to have her despotic husband baptized or the father's awkward moments...
Series
Criterion collection volume 917
Language
English
Formats
Description
"IIn this Oscar-winning farce, Cary Grant (in the role that first defined the Cary Grant persona) and Irene Dunne exude charm, cunning, and artless affection as an urbane couple who, fed up with each other's infidelities, resolve to file for divorce. But try as they might to move on, the mischievous Jerry can't help meddling in Lucy's ill-matched engagement to a corn-fed Oklahoma businessman (Ralph Bellamy), and a mortified Lucy begins to realize...
13) Rio sex comedy
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of tourists fall under Rio de Janeiro's erotic spell.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approx. 639 min.) : sd., col., digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The comedy gets delivered - in spades! - in this collection of no less than nine rollicking pictures starring RKO's comedy kings, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey. And there are lovely guest stars galore - such as Lupe Velez, Betty Grable, Thelma Todd and Dorothy Lee" -- Container.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
2 disc set ; [fullscreen]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 336 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Features four feature length screwball comedy films and one short film. " A breezy approach to male and female roles was a hallmark of the Screwball Comedy. For this collection, the studio digs deep into its vaults for four classics of the genre. Jean Arthur stars as a down-on-her-luck cook who charms a millionaire (Herbert Marshall) into playing along as her husband so they can get work in If you ould only cook, then as girl who finds herself legally...
16) Easy living
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Mary Smith is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she's his mistress, and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter"--Container.
17) What's up, doc?
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A mild-mannered man from Iowa travels to San Francisco for a convention and ends up in a screwball situation in which he must recover four identical bags.
19) Wedding present
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (81 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a reporter's girlfriend leaves him and becomes engaged to someone else, he decides to quit his job and try to win her back.
20) The awful truth
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A separated couple sabotages each other's love affairs while waiting for their divorce decree to become final.
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