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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
With fame, fortune and fans galore, silent screen idol Don Lockwood thought he had it all. But one look at aspiring actress Kathy Seldon, and he knew exactly what he was missing. Now he's swinging from lampposts, singing in the raindrops and ready for love. With talking pictures on the rise, Don sets out to make a musical with the woman of his dreams, but one thing stands in his way, his jealous co-star who wants Don--and the leading role--all to...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Humphrey Bogart plays one of his rare comedy roles in this jaunty excursion about three convicts - Joseph (Bogart), Albert (Aldo Ray) and Jules (Peter Ustinov) - who are plotting their escape from Devil's Island. Fate intervenes when they hide out with kindly, but inept Felix (Leo G. Carroll) and his family. Felix manages a store for his arrogant cousin Andre (Basil Rathbone), who makes the fatal mistake of stealing Albert's pet, a poisonous snake....
3) The artist
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1927, George Valentin is a silent movie superstar. However, the advent of the talkies will kill his career and he will sink into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller, it seems the sky's the limit as major movie stardom awaits. Though their careers are taking different paths their destinies will become entwined.
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood in 1961 to finally discuss Walt Disney's desire to bring her beloved character Mary Poppins to the motion picture screen (a quest he began in the 1940s as a promise to his two daughters), Disney meets a prim, uncompromising sexagenarian not only suspect of the impresario's concept for the film, but a woman struggling with her own past. During her stay in California, Travers' reflects back on her difficult...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Film based on a true story about a Chinese photographer and an Englishman who arrives with "moving pictures". Liu unintentionally defies his families traditions to help bridge the gap between Chinese culture and the inventions and western technologies. In order to better his standing in society, so he can marry the woman he loves, Liu must decide if he wants to risk everything to help bring the motion picture industry to China.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
From 1958 to 1963, American actor Rick Dalton knew the height of fame and fortune as the lead in the television series Bounty Law. Yet, Rick wasn't satisfied with the work and used his popularity to try to become a movie star. By 1969, Rick's career has stalled so much that he takes jobs as a guest star on various shows. He even starts wondering if the only way he can make a comeback is by acting in Italian productions. Cliff Booth, Rick's long-time...
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
The true story of how Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa allowed a Hollywood crew to film him in battle, altering the course of film and military history in the process. Early movie giants D.W. Griffin and Harry Aiken send Frank Thayer to Mexico to persuade the cash-strapped, publicity-hungry Villa to let them film his revolution. Stepping into the literal cross fire, Thayer's crew risk their lives in the mingling of fiction and reality. The two make...
10) The cat's meow
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A retelling of one of the most notorious Tinseltown legends to circulate at the height of the studio era. in November 1924, a mysterious Hollywood death occurred aboard media mogul William Randolph Hearst's yacht. Included among the famous guests that weekend were Charlie Chaplin, starlet Marion Davies, the studio system creator and producer Thomas Ince, and feared gossip columnist, Louella Parsons.
11) Chaplin
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Chaplin's entire life is covered in the biographical film. From his upbringings in the slums of England to his Honorary Oscar in 1972.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Film based on the McCarthy witchhunts of the 1950's, Guilty by Suspicion tells the story of the destruction of the career of a director. All he has to do to revive his stalled career is testify against friends who are suspected of being Communists.
13) Pictures
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Series set during the silent film era in a British studio. The heroine wants to become a star and the hero is a writer whose script is inspired by her dreams. The writer doesn't realize that she is in love with him, or that he is falling in love with her. She wants to star in his film, but other more influential women also compete for the role.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Based on the novel by Carrie Fisher about her life in the Hollywood fast lane. Suzanne Vale is a wise-cracking, vulnerable actress determined to jump start her failing career. Her mother, an aging movie star, is the definitive portrait of Hollywood's gutsy glamour queens and, of course, offers her daughter only razor sharp humor and searing honesty.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meet the Weiss family, who are making their way in Hollywood rife with money, fame, envy, and relentless hauntings. Stafford Weiss is a famed TV self-help therapist with an A-list celebrity clientele. Meanwhile, Cristina Weiss has her work cut out managing the career of their disaffected child-star son, Benjie, a fresh graduate of rehab at age thirteen. Yet unbeknownst to them, another member of the Weiss family has arrived in town, mysteriously scarred...
Publisher
Disney DVD
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Hollywood's biggest star stood just three feet tall and her name was Shirley. This movie is based on the early career years of Shirley Temple, child star. Including the ups and downs of her career and the influence her parents had on her income.
17) Om Shanti Om
Publisher
Eros International
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Hindi
Description
After dying while trying to save his beloved Shanti, Om, formerly a junior artist of Bollywood, returns to life as a Bollywood superstar to avenge Shanti's death.
19) State & Main
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In order to save money on production costs, a movie production crew moves into a small town in Vermont. The crew soon discovers that their much needed "prop" has burned down, the star can't keep his pants zipped, the starlet won't take off her top and the locals want a piece of the action.
20) The big knife
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Charles Castle is a Hollywood actor whose career needs to rebound after several flops. When he sees his marriage and career crumbling before him, it's all he can do to keep his spirits up and his wits about him. At this point in his life, the last thing he needs is more headaches. And then along comes a blackmailer, who threatens to push Castle's sanity over the edge.
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