Edith Head
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Edith Head was perhaps the most famous Hollywood costume designer of all time. Long before Rachel Zoe, Andrea Leibermann, Estee Stanley, and Nicole Chavez were styling Hollywood celebrities, eight-time Oscar Award-winning Edith Head was the sartorial sensation behind the silver screen's most high-profile stars and starlets. The Dress Doctor, adapted from her 1959 autobiography and enhanced with lavish illustrations of her most famous dresses by artist...
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Pursued by creditors, Joe swerves into a driveway of a seemingly abandoned Sunset Boulevard mansion. He finds Norma, an ex-screen queen dreaming of a dramatic comeback and her ex-husband/servant living there. She takes a fancy to Joe and, learning that he is a scriptwriter, persuades him to help her with her comeback screenplay. Being broke he accepts. He falls in love with a young script reader, but Norma breaks up their romance. Thinking she is...
3) The heiress
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"Directed with a keen sense of ambiguity by William Wyler, this film based on a hit stage adaptation of Henry James's Washington Square pivots on a question of motive. When shy, emotionally fragile Catherine Sloper (Olivia de Havilland, in a heartbreaking, Oscar-winning turn), the daughter of a wealthy New York doctor, begins to receive calls from the handsome spendthrift Morris Townsend (Montgomery Clift), she becomes possessed by the promise of...
4) Vertigo
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1 videodisc (128 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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San Francisco police detective Scottie Ferguson is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe fear of heights. When a rich shipbuilder hires Scottie to follow his wife, who may be suicidal, Scottie finds himself falling in love with her. Eventually Ferguson becomes obsessed with the chance to re-create her in another woman.
7) Hatari!
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1 videodisc (157 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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John Wayne heads a group of highly skilled professional game hunters in Africa who capture the ferocious big game with strong rope and cameras for zoos and circus attractions.
8) Houseboat
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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound., color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Shows Cary Grant as a government attorney, living in a houseboat, widowed and left with three unruly kids. He hires Sophia Loren as a governess and ends up falling in love with her.
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When the record books closed on Boston Red Sox outfielder Jimmy Piersall's career, it showed 17 seasons in the major leagues and an impressive lifetime batting average of .272. But before all that, Piersall faced a foe much tougher: mental illness. Based on the true story.
10) The tin star
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Taciturn marshal-turned-bounty hunter Morg Hickman rides into a small town where new sheriff Ben Owens is the sole representative of the law. Sensing that the boy could use some seasoning, Hickman makes it his mission to teach the sheriff how to protect himself against the criminal element. The older Hickman and the younger Owens find they are kindred spirits in their dedication. Using the lessons learned, Owens proves his worth by taking on the town...
11) Donovan's reef
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1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A straight-laced Bostonian comes searching for her father, a brawling ex-Navy man living on a South Pacific island.
12) Ministry of fear
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Criterion collection volume 649
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (1 folded sheet (7 pages) ; 19 cm).
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English
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En route to London after being released from a mental institution, Stephen Neale stops at a seemingly innocent village fair, after which he finds himself caught in the web of a sinister underworld with possible Nazi connections.
13) The big clock
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1 videodisc (1 hr., 36 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Hotshot crime magazine editor George Stroud inadvertently becomes the subject of a murder investigation after spending an evening with his boss' mistress"--Container.
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Criterion collection volume 819
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
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English
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Boxer Joe Pendleton dies 50 years too soon due to a heavenly mistake, and is given a new life as a millionaire playboy.
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