George Cukor
1) Holiday
Series
Criterion collection volume 1009
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
An acrobatically inclined free spirit, following a whirlwind engagement, literally tumbles into the lives of his fiancě's aristocratic family, setting up a clash of values with her staid father while firing the rebellious imagination of her brash, black-sheep sister. With a sparkling surface and an undercurrent of melancholy, the film is an enchanting ode to nonconformists and pie-in-the-sky dreamers everywhere, as well as a thoughtful reflection...
Series
Katharine Hepburn 100th anniversary collection volume disc 6
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Miss Moffat is a spinster schoolteacher who inherits a house in a Welsh mining town. She finds the miners living in squalor and ignorance, and is determined to open a school to teach not only the children but also anybody from the village that is interested in learning. Aiding her is Mrs. Watty, a reformed thief, the young spinster Miss Ronberry, and John Goronwy Jones, who looks after the house. There is resistance to the idea of a school. Miss Moffat...
Series
Criterion collection volume 901
Pub. Date
2017
Formats
Description
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (176 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As a band singer is discovered and guided to heights of show-business success by an alcoholic ex-matinee idol, she performs one superb song after another in a production that exhilarates with its craft and style even as its story moves toward a heartbreaking finale.
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (383 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A social climbing businessman's outspoken wife makes it difficult for him to make a suitable impression at a dinner party; a young woman agrees to marry another man in order to save her fiancae's newspaper from a libel suit; a jilted woman helps pirates capture her former lover's ship; a secretary's innocent business trip with her boss causes his wife to become jealous.
6) Camille
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1921, 1931, 2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure.
7) Pat and Mike
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A woman athlete of enormous promise in the worlds of both tennis and golf is pursued by a shady promoter who hopes to make her famous and make some money in the process.
8) Adam's rib
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A husband and wife lawyer team clash when the wife defends a woman on trial for shooting her spouse. The lawyer-husband is the prosecutor.
9) My fair lady
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (173 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Cockney waif is transformed by a linguistics professor into an elegant lady.
10) A double life
Publisher
Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 103 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The portrayal of an actor who finds his on stage role of Othello is affecting his off stage life as murderous revenge begins to seem reasonable.
11) Les girls
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A cheeky musical variation on Rashomon, the film gives three flashbacks on the Parisian sojourn of a dance master and his featured artists.
12) Holiday
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Johnny gets engaged to the girl of his dreams, only to find out she's a millionaire's daughter whose father wants to be in control of their lives. Add to that a sister who is falling for Johnny, and he needs to decide who to marry and what to do.
13) The women
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequence ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mary Haines (Norma Shearer) loses her husband to ruthless Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford) who is aided and abetted by Sylvia Fowler (Rosalind Russell) whose own spouse has taken up with another woman. In Reno, in the throes of divorce, all wage war on one another.
15) My fair lady
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 172 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, meets linguistic expert Henry Higgins. Higgins, in turn, bets with his companion, Colonel Pickering, that, within six months, he could transform Eliza into a proper lady, simply by teaching her proper English. The next morning, face and hands freshly scrubbed, Eliza presents herself on Higgins' doorstep, ready and willing to be turned into a lady.
17) Rich and famous
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The long-standing friendship between two women is threatened when one becomes immediately successful as a writer while the other continues to strive for literary recognition.
18) Dinner at eight
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Park Avenue snob gives a dinner party for a visiting English peer. Little does she realize that her shipping magnate husband is bankrupt and that her daughter is having an affair with an older man.
19) Gaslight
Publisher
Warner Home Video [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min., 84 min.) : sd., b&w, double sided ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A susceptible young woman marries a suave, romantic man never suspecting that he is a murderous scoundrel, obsessed with finding the jewels hidden in their London home. She becomes the helpless victim as slowly, insidiously, he drives her to the brink of insanity.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (426 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Philadelphia story: A sophisticated romantic comedy about a rich, spoiled socialite who learns some things about who she is and what she really wants on the eve of her second marriage.
Bringing up Baby: Crazy comedy about an heiress who is determined to catch a stuffy zoologist and uses her pet leopard, Baby, to help get his attention.
Woman of the year: In this hilarious excursion into the Battle of the Sexes, Tracy plays Sam Craig, the down-to-earth...