Harry Stradling
2) My fair lady
Language
English
Description
Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, meets linguistic expert Henry Higgins. Higgins, in turn, bets with his companion, Colonel Pickering, that, within six months, he could transform Eliza into a proper lady, simply by teaching her proper English. The next morning, face and hands freshly scrubbed, Eliza presents herself on Higgins' doorstep, ready and willing to be turned into a lady.
3) Gypsy
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Mama Rose lives to see her daughter, June, succeed on Broadway by way of Vaudeville.
5) 1776
Language
English
Formats
Description
1776 is a delightful musical celebration of the founding of The United States of America. The story centers around the familiar historical characters as they organize a movement for independence from Mother England. All events lead up to that most significant date, July 4, 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was signed.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella Kowalski and her husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money whereby he sets about discovering everything else he...
7) Funny girl
Language
English
Formats
Description
A musical film that follows the early career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice.
"One of the most popular movie musicals ever made! FUNNY GIRL follows the early career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice, a role that earned Barbra Streisand the 1968 Oscar® for Best Actress. As the film opens, only her mother believes Fanny can make it in show business. When she gets her first break at Keeney's Music Hall, her hilarious debut as a roller-skating chorus...
8) Hello, Dolly
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Musical set in the 1890's about a professional matchmaker who meets her match.
9) Auntie Mame
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1928, a 10-year-old boy goes to live with his eccentric, sophisticated aunt, a lady who throws a party for any occasion or non-occasion that comes to mind.
10) Easter parade
Author
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Astaire is trying to forget ex-dance partner Miller while rising to stardom with Garland.
11) Pygmalion
Series
Criterion collection volume 85
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Professor Henry Higgins works to make a pretty flower girl into a young lady of society.
12) Jamaica Inn
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Maureen O'Hara's first film is the brooding story of a nobleman who leads a cutthroat ship-looting band of men. Charles Laughton is a magnificent villain and Hitchcock glories in the moody atmosphere.