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1) Show People
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
All Peggy wants in life is to be a great dramatic actress. But when a rowdy slapstick comic gives Peggy her big break, she puts her dreams on hold and becomes America’s comedy queen. So when prestigious High Arts Studio offers her the chance to play serious roles and Peggy gets an awfully swelled head, it’s up to Billy to burst her bubble and bring Peggy down to earth.
2) Scaramouche
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
By day Andre secretly perfects his parries and lunges, and hides his true identity at night behind the mask of stage clown Scaramouche.
3) The Patsy
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Pat Harrington is the patsy in her family, the forgotten good girl who watches her flirtatious sister collect all the fellas. Gloriously fun and frothy, The Patsy was the biggest hit of Davies' career.
4) Moulin Rouge
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A cinematic classic from 1928. Parysia is the rage of Paris. She has a daughter, secretly engaged to Andre, and the boy's aristocratic father objects to the alliance because of Margaret's mother being a revue artist. Director Ewald Andre Dupont took almost a year to make Moulin Rouge at a production cost of $500,000, a huge amount for 1928.
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Madariaga has two daughters - one of whom marries a Frenchman, the other a German. He favors his French grandson, Julio, which creates resentment. After Madariaga dies, the two families separate. In Paris, Julio lives the life of a libertine artist, engaging in an affair with a married woman. When the woman's husband is crippled in the war, she ends the affair. Heartbroken Julio enlists in the army and is sent to the Western Front. There he meets...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A gorgeous, lavish history of silent movies - with more than 400 amazing images - captures the birth of film and icons like Chaplin, Garbo, Clara Bow, and Valentino.
Drawing on the extraordinary collection of The Library of Congress, one of the greatest repositories for silent film and memorabilia, Peter Kobel has created the definitive visual history of silent film. From its birth in the 1890s, with the earliest narrative shorts, through the brilliant...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When silent movie director Larry Trimble decides to put Strongheart, a police dog, into his movies as the lead actor, he must first train him to play with toys and walk like a regular dog, but Strongheart becomes a sensation until his military training leads to trouble, and possibly the end of his career. Includes author's note on the real Strongheart.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"New York in the late 1980s. Ceinwen Reilly has just moved from Yazoo City, Mississippi, and she's never going back, minimum wage job (vintage store salesgirl) and shabby apartment (Avenue C walkup) be damned. Who cares about earthly matters when Ceinwen can spend her days and her nights at the repertory houses--and most of the time that's left trying to look like Jean Harlow? One day, Ceinwen discovers that her downstairs neighbor may have--just...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This meditation on cinema's past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was settled in 1896 and became the center of the Canadian Gold Rush that brough 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final stop for a distribution chain that sent prints and newsreels to the Yukon. The...
15) Flickers: Vol. 1
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Full screen.
Language
English
Description
As a brash British movie pioneer, Arnie forms an unlikely partnership with Maude that starts out strictly business and grows into a real romance.
16) The artist
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
In 1927, George Valentin is a silent movie superstar. However, the advent of the talkies will kill his career and he will sink into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller, it seems the sky's the limit as major movie stardom awaits. Though their careers are taking different paths their destinies will become entwined.
17) Faust
Author
Language
Silent
Description
A tale of the battle between good and evil, in which Faust sells his soul to Mephistopheles. From the play by Johann Wolfgang Goeth. Score compiled from historic photoplay music by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The story of film: an odyssey, written and directed by award-winning film-maker Mark Cousins, is the story of international cinema told through the history of cinematic innovation. Five years in the making, The Story of Film: An Odyssey covers six continents and 12 decades, showing how film-makers are influenced both by the historical events of their times, and by each other. It provides worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made; an...
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Young Cedric Errol lives with his widowed mother in New York City. Cedric's late father was a son of the Earl of Dorincourt, but the Earl had objected strongly to his son's marriage, and thus has long been estranged from Cedric and his mother. But when the Earl's only surviving son dies in a riding accident, Cedric suddenly becomes Lord Fauntleroy, the Earl's heir. Cedric and his mother travel to England, where they must overcome the Earl's hard feelings...
20) Intolerance
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Four separate stories are interwoven: the fall of Babylon, the death of Christ, the massacre of the Huguenots and a contemporary drama, all crosscut and building with enormous energy to a thrilling chase and finale.
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