Young at Heart (Full Screen)
 Amazon.com Essential Video: This 1954 musical remake of Four Daughters stars Doris Day as a well-bred New England woman who marries a chip-on-his-shoulder musician (Frank Sinatra). Lots of tears, yes, but this version of Fannie Hurst's novel is [... more]
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Follies
Amazon.com essential recording: The scene: an abandoned theater, where a group of performers--alumni from the fictional musical revue The Weismann Follies--is holding a reunion shortly before the building is to be turned to rubble. The long-retired [... more]
CDN$15.99
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Little Rascals: Vols. 1-2 (Full Screen)
Racist or RACIAL??: The sensitivity of the American public will kill the rich history of comedy displayed in these shorts if media doesn't separate racism from racial humor. Our Gang/Little Rascals was harshly racist in some ways before the advent of [... more]
CDN$25.95
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Lifeboat
From Amazon.com: Part mystery, part wartime polemic, Lifeboat finds director Alfred Hitchcock tackling a cinematic challenge that foreshadows the self-imposed handicaps of Rope and Rear Window. As with those subsequent features, Hitchcock confines his [... more]
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Lifeboat (Special Edition)
From Amazon.com: Part mystery, part wartime polemic, Lifeboat finds director Alfred Hitchcock tackling a cinematic challenge that foreshadows the self-imposed handicaps of Rope and Rear Window. As with those subsequent features, Hitchcock confines his [... more]
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Hollywood Divas
OSCAR WILDE WOULD HAVE LOVED THIS BOOK!: I'm probably misquoting him, but Oscar Wilde said "It is the feet of clay that makes the gold of the idols precious." He would have loved this collection -- there isn't a diva here who wouldn't have [... more]
CDN$23.95
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Fredric March: Craftsman First, Star Second
Entertaining, informative, opinionated.: This book depicts the rise of its protagonist from his small-town, middle-class background to superstardom. Comfortably set in his profession as bank clerk, March meticulously planned his acting career that was to [... more]
CDN$137.47
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Vaudeville
From Amazon.com: A priceless document of archival footage and precious oral history, Vaudeville offers a comprehensive survey of American family entertainment in the decades before radio, movies, and television. From its origins in British comedy, [... more]
CDN$34.99
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That Midnight Kiss/The Toast of New Orleans
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Binding: DVD EAN: 0012569795303 Format: NTSC Format: Original recording remastered Format: Subtitled MPN: 79530 Release Date: 2007-07-24 Theatrical Release Date: 1950-08-24 UPC: 012569795303 [... more]
CDN$26.99
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The Spiral Staircase
From Amazon.com: An unusual suspense film, The Spiral Staircase tells the story of a mute servant girl threatened by a murderer who has a penchant for killing the handicapped. Ethel Barrymore, Elsa Lanchester, and George Brent co-star, while Dorothy [... more]
CDN$15.98
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Pinky
Amazon.com Essential Video: It used to be called "miscegenation," and it hasn't been a scandalous or taboo subject for several decades now. (Every other prime-time TV series seems to have an interracial romance going, and nobody bats an eyelash. [... more]
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Portrait Of Jennie
Strange but irresistably fascinating love story.: Portrait of Jennie is a strange time-warp love story which may be dismissed by some modern viewers as silly. Yet to me it is almost irresistably fascinating. Even though I regularly watch it on DVD, if I [... more]
CDN$15.98
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