Edmund Goulding
1) Grand hotel
Language
English
Formats
Description
Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he misses the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya's pearls, but ends up stealing her heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats his lowly bookkeeper, Kringelein, but in the end it is Kringelein who holds all...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1078
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.
Series
Language
English
Description
Stanton Carlisle is an ambitious carnie who plays scams alongside phony mentalist Zeena and her alcoholic husband Pete, working the crowd as Zeena pretends to read their minds. But Stan has no intention of staying with the carnival; he has his heart set on an upscale night club act.
Series
Studio classic volume 30
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A rich young man spends his time between WWI & WWII searching for essential truth, eventually landing in India.
Series
Language
English
Description
The Broadway Melody offers snarky, wiseacre humor, and effervescent charm. The Mahoney Sisters are successful singers in the boondocks, and now they've come to New York for the big time. Hank (Henrietta) is the smart one, while Queenie is the beautiful one--as Hank's fiancé Eddie Kearns says, they're "a coupla swell kids." Songwriter Eddie gets the girls a part in a revue featuring his song, "The Broadway Melody." Eddie, long engaged to Hank, falls...
6) Dark victory
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The life of a fast moving Long Island socialite skids to a stop when she discovers that she has less than a year to live.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Tessa is a teenaged free spirit locked in battle with her complicated, sophisticated cousin Florence over the love of Lewis, an impoverished, gifted composer. Lewis is married to Florence, but young Tessa loves Lewis so completely he finds himself drawn to her more and more. Tessa is soon transformed, first into Lewis' muse, and then into something more; while Florence's jealousies cage her in a competition with a child she can't hope to win.
10) Dancing mothers
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
None
Description
Twenty years ago, Ethel Westcourt was the toast of the New York nightlife, squired around all the clubs by the most handsome of men. Now she spends her nights alone while her husband carries out illicit affairs and their daughter, Catherine (or "Kittens") paints the town red. A chance meeting with Kittens' latest crush, sophisticated older businessman Jerry Naughton, inspires Ethel to take action before she becomes a spinster for life. Emboldened,...
11) Mister 880
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Based on a Secret Service file, Mister 880 tells the tale of a sweet old counterfeiter who stymies the U.S. Secret Service for over a decade by passing counterfeit single dollar bills with "Washington" misspelled.
12) The great lie
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
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.
14) Dark victory
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
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.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Married to a gangster at 15, widowed by the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, remarried to a playboy, forsaken, and left to raise her baby alone: Mary Donnell leads the kind of three-hanky life just made for a prestige '30s melodrama.
17) The old maid
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Headstrong, beautiful Tina has nothing but disdain for her Aunt Charlotte. Tina does not think that her aunt has any understanding of a young girls heart, but Charlotte knows more than Tina thinks. For unloved, unlovable Aunt Charlotte is really Tina's mother, whose romance with a Civil War soldier who didn't return resulted in Tina's birth.
18) Claudia
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Dorothy McGuire shines in her stage role adaptation of the Broadway hit Claudia. The title character's young bride ways lead to an array of life lessons including babies, the passing of loved ones, and compromises with a stubborn husband.
20) Bette Davis
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Now, voyager: 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, helping her to become her own person.
Dark victory: The life of a fast-moving Long Island socialite skids to a stop when she discovers that she has less than a year to live.
Old acquaintance: Old friends Kit Marlowe and Millie Drake adopt contrasting lifestyles: Kit...