Barbara Stanwyck
2) The lady Eve
Series
Criterion collection volume 103
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Barbara Stanwyck sizzles, Henry Fonda bumbles, and Preston Sturges runs riot in one of the all-time great screwballs, a pitch-perfect blend of comic zing and swoon worthy romance that Sturges wrote, directed, and produced.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A famous food writer lies about living on a farm, raising her children and being a good cook. In reality she is an unmarried New Yorker who can't boil an egg. When her editor says she will spend Christmas with a heroic sailor, her job is on the line.
Publisher
Universal Studio Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Lee Leander is a petty shoplifter on trial for swiping an expensive bracelet from a local jewelry store. When her trial is postponed until after New Year’s, sympathetic Assistant District Attorney John Sargent bails her out of jail. Together, they find themselves falling in love when he invites her to his family’s home for the holidays where she discovers the warmth and love she’s never had but always wanted.
Lee Leander is a...
8) Kirk Douglas
Publisher
Madacy Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Big trees: A greedy lumberman determined to destroy a giant redwood forest on homesteader's land. He must first deal with the local Quaker community.
My dear secretary: A wolfish author hires a secretary who becomes a "best selling" author.
The strange love of Martha Ivers: A wealthy neurotic woman bound to her wimpy spouse by the haunting memories of a murder she committed long ago.
9) The lady Eve
Series
Criterion collection volume 103
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
A conniving father and daughter meet up with the heir to a brewery fortune-- a wealthy but naïve snake enthusiast-- and attempt to bamboozle him at a cruise ship card table. Their plan is quickly abandoned when the daughter falls in love with their prey. But when the heir gets wise to her gold-digging ways, she must plot to re-conquer his heart.
10) The woman in red
Series
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Shelby Barret, a professional equestrienne, marries into the snobbish upper crust. When events involve her in a death aboard a playboy's yacht, Shelby knows her husband's family will grab their excuse to renounce her.
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1930's, before Hollywood began enforcing a self-imposed Production Code, many films allowed for extraordinary frankness including nudity, adultery and prostitution. In this restored and remastered three-movie collection, three daring young actresses are featured in racy, riveting star vehicles. Jean Harlow is a red-headed secretary who hooks the company's married boss, while carrying on with chauffeur Charles Boyer. A young soldier is...
13) Stella Dallas
Publisher
[Warner Home Video]
Pub. Date
℗1937
Language
English
Description
Even after her marriage to well-bred Stephen Dallas ends, irrepressible Stella is determined to give their daughter the life she never had. When it comes down to her child's happiness versus her own, Stella's sacrifice is the epitome of bravery.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Ten cents a dance: Barbara, a dance hall girl, marries Eddie, who turns out to be a compulsive gambler. Barbara turns to a former suitor and dance hall owner, Bradley Carlton, for help.
Arizona: Bob Denton, a West Point football star, discovers that his commanding officer is married to his former girlfriend, a woman bent on revenge after he jilted her.
Three wise girls: An innocent small-town girl trades her soda fountain job for a modeling job...
16) Executive suite
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The president of a furniture company suddenly dies, leaving seven board members locked in a power struggle.