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1) The wife
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After nearly forty years of marriage, Joan and Joe Castleman are complements. Where Joe is casual, Joan is elegant. Where Joe is vain, Joan is self-effacing. And where Joe enjoys his very public role as Great American Novelist, Joan pours her considerable intellect, grace, charm, and diplomacy into the private role of Great Man's Wife. Joe is about to be awarded the Nobel Prize for his acclaimed and prolific body of work. Joe's literary star has blazed...
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's the greatest literary mystery of all time: Who wrote the works of William Shakespeare? Although the official story of a Stratford merchant writing for the London box office has held sway for centuries, questions over the authorship of the plays and poems persists. Derek Jacobi leads an impressive cast featuring Vanessa Redgrave and Mark Rylance on a quest to uncover the truth behind the world's most elusive author, and discovers a forgotten nobleman...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Evan Treborn wants to be free of his disturbing childhood memories. As a young child, he often blacked out for long periods of time and would try to detail his life through journal writing. As a young adult, he revisits the journal entries to figure out the truth about his troubled childhood friends Kayleigh, Lenny, and Tommy. When he discovers he can travel back in time in order to set things right, he does so in order to save his beloved friends....
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Miguel, writer of the telenovela 'Destiny of Love', is pulled over by the cops. To get out of trouble he reveals his occupation and gives officer Bracho, a huge fan, the inside scoop: that the show's villain will marry her lover. However, when the actress quits the show, her character must be written off by giving her a fatal disease causing Bracho to become the laughing stock of the precinct. Things quickly spin out of control when Bracho starts...
6) Big eyes
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Walter Keane became a worldwide celebrity and talk show fixture in the 1950s after he pioneered the mass production of prints of big-eyed kids, and used his marketing savvy to sell them cheaply. Unfortunately, he claimed to be the artist. That role was played by Margaret, his shy wife. The ruse broke up their marriage and led to a divorce and a dramatic courtroom battle to prove authorship of the paintings.
7) Casting by
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This film places the spotlight on one of filmmaking's unsung heroes, casting director Marion Dougherty, and takes viewers on a journey through 50 years of Hollywood history from an entirely new perspective. Relying on her exquisite taste and gut instincts, Dougherty helped usher in the 'New Hollywood' with movies like Midnight Cowboy, The Graduate, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, and Bonnie and Clyde.
8) The offer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (541 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This epic ten-episode limited event series tells the extraordinary behind-the-scenes story of Oscar®-winning producer Albert S. Ruddy's journey of bringing Francis Ford Coppola's cinematic masterpiece The Godfather to the big screen. This critically acclaimed series contains over 2.5 hours of special features, including featurettes, deleted scenes, and more!
9) Anonymous
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Was Shakespeare a fraud? Who really wrote about cloak-and-dagger political intrigue, illicit romances in the Royal Court, and the schemes of greedy nobles hungry for the power of the throne? Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, intrigue and suspense advance the theory that it was really Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays.
11) Miss Potter
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In an effort to give their younger brother Norman a project to keep him busy now that he has joined the family publishing house, the older Warne brothers agree to publish Miss Beatrix Potter's first children's book. They don't expect the book to sell well, but they need to keep Norman busy. As a single woman living in Edwardian London, Beatrix suspects this endeavor may provide her with a small measure of freedom. But she also has very specific ideas...
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