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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Director Jacques Tourneur brings his celebrated mastery of shadowy menace to this absorbing tale of madness and murder in an outwardly genteel world of wealth. Follow Dr. Bailey as he searches for the truth, but don't believe everything you're told.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2015
Language
English
Description
Hollywood star Vanessa Windsor is saved from a terrible on-set accident by handsome studio extra Chris Farley. In appreciation of his skills and good looks, she sets him up as the caretaker of her beach house. When Vanessa's sultry daughter meets Chris, the claws come out as both ladies try to stake out his affections.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Story of a group of Paisanos, descendants of early Mexican settlers in Northern California. They live in the tiny town of Tortilla Flat and spend their days eating, drinking and relaxing in the sun. When one of them inherits two houses the rest are soon living in the houses without paying rent. The situation is further complicated when the house owner falls for a beautiful woman.
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"One soft-boiled egg for Harry. Two peanuts for the squirrels in the park. Each morning is the same for prosperous, proper Bostonian Harry Pulham - until he begins writing his biography for his 25th Harvard class reunion. Then memories of the free-spirited woman he once loved, of the liberated life he could have had, of all the aching what ifs of middle age bring Harry abruptly face-to-face with his past."--Container insert.
5) Bombshell
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and '40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and Bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a radio system to throw Nazi torpedoes off course during WWII.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
While headed to Tangier to purchase a microfilm containing important war secrets, foreign spy Eric Augustine is captured by the authorities. Burlesque comedian Peanuts White, a dead ringer for Augustine, is recruited by the government to take over Augustine's mission. White is briefed, dressed to look exactly like Augustine, and thrust into the world of espionage and international intrigue. In Tangiers problems arise when he meets Lily, Augustine's...
Series
Publisher
Acme DVD Works
Pub. Date
c2004, 1946.
Language
English
Description
The strange woman: A strong-willed young lady in 19th century Maine affects the lives of three very different men.
Dishonored lady: A glamorous but neurotic art director for a leading women's magazine finds herself under suspicion of murder.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Beautiful Austrian political refugee "Johnny" Jones is about to be deported, leaving the loving arms of a married Manhattan publisher for the waiting arms of the Nazis. The solution: instant citizenship via a marriage of convenience with flat-broke writer Bill Smith, in which the only thing they'll share is the same last name"--Container.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping...
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
©2019
Language
English
Description
Hedy Lamarr became a movie legend, but her true loves were always science and engineering. During World War II, Hedy collaborated with another inventor on an innovative technology called frequency hopping. It was designed to prevent the enemy from jamming torpedo radio signals and commanding weapons to go off course. Frequency hopping is still used today to keep our cell phone messages private and defend our computers from hackers. In this biography,...
11) Hedy Lamarr
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Little Hedwig loved learning and was curious about the world, but her acting career in Europe led her into an unhappy marriage where she wasn't allowed to be in films anymore. Thankfully, a better future as a movie star and inventor was waiting for her in America.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From her native Austria to the limelight of Hollywood, Hedy Lamarr was constantly bombarded with societal limitations and personal obstacles-including her own beauty. Only through courage, ambition, and intellect would she rise to become both a cultural icon and an unparalleled inventor whose creations would alter the course of history.
Creators William Roy and Sylvain Dorange use the graphic novel medium to recount the biography of a genius inventor...
Author
Language
English
Description
Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial film and marriage to a powerful Austrian arms dealer, allowing her to evade Nazi persecution despite her Jewish heritage. But Hedy is also intelligent. At lavish Vienna dinner parties, she overhears the Third Reich's plans. One night in 1937, desperate to escape her controlling husband and the rise of the Nazis, she disguises herself and flees her husband's castle. She lands...
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