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Bernard Shaw
1) Plays
Author
Publisher
Signet Classics
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
These four classic plays by the great playwright satirize society, military heroism, marriage, and the pursuit of man by woman. Includes "Mrs. Warren's Profession, Arms and the Man, Candida," and "Man and Superman," along with a new Introduction. Reissue.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
In New Hampshire in 1777, Dick Dudgeon's father dies. Called back home to the unhappy family he revolted against years ago, Dick finds he's been named heir, much to the horror of his religious mother. To complicate matters, the British have arrived.
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An anthology of films from American film archives. In addition to rare silent-era features, includes cartoons and animation, documentaries and newsreels, earliest American movies, pioneering sound and color experiments, serial episodes, trailers for lost films, advertisements, avant-garde shorts, ethnographic footage, films of ethnic communities, and other film types invented during the first four decades of the motion picture. Contains 50 films followed...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
One night, a frightened Swiss soldier of fortune climbs into the bedroom of a young Bulgarian girl and soon deflates her romantic notions about love and valor.
Man of destiny: a Shaw play set in 1796 at an inn where Napoleon rests at the start of his conquest of Italy.
15) My fair lady
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Arrogant, irascible, and misogynistic professor of phonetics Henry Higgins believes that the accent and tone of one's voice determines a person's prospects in society. He boasts to a new acquaintance, Colonel Hugh Pickering--also an expert in phonetics--that he could teach any woman to speak so "properly" that he could pass her off as a duchess at an embassy ball. He chooses as an example a sassy, young working-class London flower seller from the...
16) Pygmalion
Series
Criterion collection volume 85
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Professor Henry Higgins works to make a pretty flower girl into a young lady of society.
19) Pygmalion
Series
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A stuffy professor of phonetics takes a bet that in six months time he can turn a Cockney flower seller into a lady he could pass off as a duchess.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Epifania is glamorous, clever and also the richest woman in the world. But she faces the challenge her money-mad father imposed on her before his death: She can only marry a man who can convert 150 pounds into 50,000 pounds within six months.