Fred Astaire
Author
Description
Stage stars Tom and Ellen Bowen embark to open their show in England. Innocent-seeming Ellen is a female Don Juan and doesn't take dancing as seriously as brother Tom; on shipboard she meets her match, Lord John Brindale. Arrived in London, confirmed bachelor Tom auditions and is taken with cool dancer Anne Ashmond. Will romance break up the act?
2) On the beach
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment :
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (134 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Radioactive fallout from a nuclear war has wiped out the entire northern hemisphere, with the exception of Australia. With fallout expected momentarily, the Australians review their lives, establish new relationships and prepare for their tragic demise.
3) Funny face
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Cinderella story about an inconspicuous salesgirl who is whisked off to Paris by a group of fashion magazine sophisticates and transformed into a dazzling model with whom the magazine's photographer falls in love.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A ballet star (Astaire) and a musical revue sensation (Rogers) decide to wed and publicly divorce to quash persistent rumors of a secret marriage. Once tied, however, perhaps they shouldn't call the whole thing off.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c1955
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Millionaire playboy Jervis Pendleton III becomes enamored with a young woman living in a French orphanage, and decides to anonymously sponsor her college education in America. When they finally meet face-to-face two years later, romance blossoms but is complicated by Jervis's hesitance towards their age differences.
Description
Elevators turn into crematoria, rooms explode into a living hell. and one by one, avenues of escape disappear. The celebrated opening of the world's tallest skyscraper turns into horrifying disaster as a holocaust leaps up and traps hundreds. A fireman and the building's architect lead the rescue efforts, but the pyrotechnics remain the center of attraction.
11) Top hat
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rogers and Astaire are caught up in a mistaken identity plot, in which Rogers assumes that Astaire is already married, and is alternatively charmed and repelled by his advances.
12) Holiday Inn
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (101 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A song and dance man leaves showbiz to run an inn that is open only on holidays. A former partner joins him and the two find themselves competing for the affections of the same lovely lady.
13) Ziegfeld follies
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A dead showman looks down upon the Earth and dreams of his perfect show. Features many stars of the WWII era.
14) Swing time
Series
Criterion collection volume 979
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
While trying to make $25,000 to convince his prospective father-in-law that he is capable enough to marry his daughter, gambler Lucky Garnett falls in love with a beautiful dance teacher.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 97 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Acunas family is a family of tradition. The family holds the ritual of making sure that their daughters get married in order of age. When the second daughter does not follow the tradition quick enough, her sister resort to finding her a lover.
17) On the beach
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the entire Northern hemisphere is destroyed in an atomic war, the residents of Melbourne, Australia, realize that it is only time keeping them safe before a cloud of radioactive materials reaches their part of the world.
18) Royal Wedding
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1951.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Fred Astaire and Jane Powell star as a brother and sister dance team that is invited to England to perform at the same time as the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth.
Publisher
Distributed by Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (51 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Burgermeister has outlawed toys from the children of Sombertown. Now, Kris Kringle will get his start as the world's most famous gift giver - Santa Claus - by struggling to bring toys and happiness to children.
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