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viii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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"American silent film comedies were dominated by sight gags, stunts and comic violence. With the advent of sound, comedies in the 1930s were a riot of runaway heiresses and fast-talking screwballs. It was more than a technological pivot -- the first feature-length sound film, The Jazz Singer (1927), changed Hollywood"--
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Comic chaos ensues when the identical bags of four hotel guests get mixed up, one owned by a free-spirited woman, another by a befuddled musicologist, and the others holding jewelry and top secret government documents.
3) Overboard
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1 videodisc (approximately 1 hr., 52 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A super-rich and pretentious socialite winds up in the world of a struggling carpenter with four kids.
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1 videodisc (91 min.) : ǂb sound, black and white ; ǂc 4 3/4 in. + ǂe 1 booklet (18 unnumbered pages : illustrations : 19 cm)
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English
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A separated couple sabotages each other's love affairs while waiting for their divorce decree to become final.
"In this Oscar-winning farce, Cary Grant (in the role that first defined the Cary Grant persona) and Irene Dunne exude charm, cunning, and artless affection as an urbane couple who, fed up with each other's infidelities, resolve to file for divorce. But try as they might to move on, the mischievous Jerry can't help meddling in Lucy's ill-matched...
Series
Criterion collection volume 114
Language
English
Description
Follows the madcap antics of a ditzy debutante who stumbles upon a 'forgotten man' at the city dump. Determined to help Godfrey out, she offers him work in her household and he soon becomes the perfect butler for her eccentric family. As the family's antics grow increasingly more absurd, it is only a matter of time before Godfrey's secret past is revealed.
6) Overboard
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1 videodisc (approximately 112 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When Leonardo, a wealthy businessman, has a yachting accident and develops amnesia, an ill-treated employee exacts some revenge. Kate is a single mom who manages to convince Leonardo that she is his wife. Hilarity ensues as Leonardo must take on the task of helping Kate raise her three daughters. Will Kate's plan succeed to perfection, or will she discover that Leonardo isn't such a bad guy after all? It's classic role reversal in this remake of an...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1153
Language
English
Description
An easy-going drama critic is shocked to discover that his elderly aunts, the seemingly gentle-natured Abby and Martha, have a habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar of their old Brooklyn mansion.
Mirthful murder Cary-ed off in slapstick, slap-happy style! Cary Grant and a stellar cast romp through this classic farce based on Joseph Kesselring's 1941 Broadway hit and breezily directed by Frank Capra. Frazzled drama critic...
8) Easy living
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1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Mary Smith is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she's his mistress, and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter"--Container.
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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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All the earnest paleontologist wants is an intercostal clavicle to complete his brontosaurus skeleton. What he gets is an out-of-control toboggan ride with a scatterbrained heiress nuts about him (or maybe just nuts).
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