Arthur Laurents
Author
Description
Best known for the hit musicals West Side Story and Gypsy, Arthur Laurents began his career writing socially minded plays such as Home of the Brave and Time of the Cuckoo. He also garnered impressive credits as a screenwriter (The Way We Were) and stage director (La Cage aux Folles). Such a varied professional life makes for absorbing reading, as unleashed in his lively 2000 autobiography, Original Story By.
Laurents passed away early in 2011 but...
2) Gypsy
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (143 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee, her rise to stardom from vaudeville and her volatile relationship with her ambitious mother.
3) Summertime
Series
Criterion collection volume 22
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
A lonely secretary travels to Venice on a vacation with the secret hope of falling in love.
4) Rope
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
p2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Two thrill-seeking friends (Granger and Dall) strangle a classmate and then hold a party for their victim's family and friends, serving refreshments on a buffet table fashioned from a trunk containing the lifeless body. When dinner conversation revolves around talk of the 'perfect murder, ' their former teacher (Stewart) becomes increasingly suspicious that his students have turned his intellectual theories into brutal reality."--Container.
5) Summertime
Series
Criterion collection volume 22
Publisher
Classic Collection
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a witty but lonely secretary who takes a vacation in Venice, hoping to fall in love. She does - with a very handsome but very married Italian man.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (152 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets.
7) Anastasia
Description
Anastasia: A princess of Russia's Romanov family grows up in an orphanage after the assassination of her parents and separation from her grandmother, with only vague memories of her childhood, but she discovers her rightful heritage when she is recruited to pose as the lost princess by con men who want to claim a reward for her recovery.
Bartok: When Prince Ivan is kidnapped, it is up to Bartok to discover the real hero inside himself and rescue...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (152 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([8] p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Cecile is the spoiled 17-year-old daughter of Raymond, a wealthy Parisian widower vacationing in a villa on the French Riviera. Their pleasure-seeking existence is threatened when Raymond decides to marry Cecile's straitlaced godmother, Anne, who disapproves of the teenager's steamy summer affair with Philippe.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (610 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From the container. Anastasia. In this cherished classic, Ingrid Bergman gives an Oscar-winning performance as a beautiful destitute woman being groomed to pass for a Russian empress.
From the container. Gentleman's Agreement. Winner of three Academy Awards, including Best Picture, this riveting classic tackles prejudice head-on, as a journalist discovers what it is to be victim of religious intolerance.
From the container. The Ox-Bow Incident....
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004, c1977
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two friends who started in ballet are reunited after many years; one is now a star ballerina, the other a Midwestern housewife/dance teacher whose daughter is embarking on her own ballet career.