Charles Coburn
1) The Lady Eve
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Barbara Stanwyck sizzles, Henry Fonda bumbles, and Preston Sturges runs riot in one of the all-time great screwballs, a pitch-perfect blend of comic zing and swoon worthy romance that Sturges wrote, directed, and produced.
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Special edition ; full screen.
Language
English
Description
Newly deceased playboy Henry Van Cleve arrives at the outer offices of Hades where he asks Satan for permission to enter the gates of Hell. Though the Devil doubts he will qualify, Henry proceeds to recount a lifetime of wooing and pursuing women.
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
J.P. Merric, the richest man in the world, a tyrannical department store tycoon, nicknamed "the devil" by his maltreated employees, meets Miss Jones and becomes a perfect angel. Hoping to root out labor discontent, J.P. goes underground posing as a shoe salesman in his own store.
9) The Lady Eve
Series
Preston Sturges the filmmaker collection volume V. 3
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
"It's the ultimate battle of the sexes when a wealthy heir (Henry Fonda) falls (literally!) for a con woman (Barbara Stanwyck) with a shady past."
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
When junior shipping mogul Josh Mallon comes too close to getting hitched, he and his best buddy Ace Lannigan run to the furthest point they can find on a map--Singapore. The first of the famous "Road" pictures starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby as a team of irrepressible bachelors, the scenery includes Dorothy Lamour as the beautiful live-in housekeeper they bring home.
11) In name only
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Alec Walker's wife Maida is a beauty, but she's also a venomous, self-absorbed schemer. Then Alec falls for an open-hearted widow named Julie. And Maida turns wedding vows into a steel trap: If Alec files for divorce, she'll drag Julie into court as a homewrecker, and use Julie's little daughter as a witness.
12) Edison, the man
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Incredible biography of the genius who created, among other society-changing inventions, the motion picture medium. This story depicts Edison's beginning when he was a penniless janitor who set up a make-shift laboratory in an office basement.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Disc 1: Theodora goes wild: A small-time author whose racy bestsellers, written under a pseudonym, bring her notoriety when a New Yorker discovers her secret. Together again: The mayor's widow falls for a sculptor as he works on a statue of her late husband.
Disc 2: The doctor takes a wife: A feminist writer forced to pretend she's married to a man whom she loathes. A night to remember: A woman and her mystery writer husband take an apartment in...