Adapted from the Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman play, Stage Door is a comedic portrait of the theatrical community in New York. Katharine Hepburn stars as Terry Randall a young woman who comes from a wealthy, socially connected family. Aspiring for a career on the stage, Terry opts to see if she can make it on her own gumption and moves into a ...
In 1933, at the height of the bleakness and desperation of the Depression, MGM released this genuine curiosity piece -- directed by comedy (!) director Gregory La Cava -- concerning a Warren G. Harding-like partisan hand-shaker President of the United States who, after seeing a vision, revokes the Constitution, becomes a reigning dictator, and ...
One of the landmark "screwball" comedies of the 1930s, My Man Godfrey offers the radiant Carole Lombard in her definitive performance as flighty young heiress Irene Bullock, who on a society scavenger hunt stumbles on Godfrey (William Powell), an erudite hobo residing in the city dump. Godfrey becomes the family's butler, much to the dismay of ...
Despite MGM's insistence that star Gene Kelly, just returning from military service in 1947, appear exclusively in big-budget Technicolor musicals, maverick director Gregory La Cava showcased Kelly in the modest black and white tunefest Living in a Big Way. Kelly is cast as an ex-GI who discovers that his wealthy war bride (Marie McDonald) is an ...
Running Wild bears a marked resemblance to One Glorious Day, a 1923 Will Rogers vehicle. W.C. Fields stars as a henpecked family man, browbeaten both at home and at work. Only his daughter Mary Brian truly cares about Fields, and he reciprocates by showering most of his familial affection on her. While attending a vaudeville show, Fields ...
In her third film for innovative director Gregory LaCava, Ginger Rogers briefly turns her back on her established screen image by playing the daughter and granddaughter of prostitutes. Determined not to pursue the "family business", Ellie May Adams (Rogers) opts for respectability, as personified by clean-limbed Ed Walker (Joel McCrea, teamed with ...
A primitive early talkie from Pathé, this crime drama starred relative newcomers Robert Armstrong and Carole Lombard, the latter still spelling her first name Carol. They play husband and wife, she threatening divorce unless he devotes more of his time to their marriage. In reality, Armstrong is an undercover detective busy investigating a dope ...
Description: Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea, Marjorie Rambeau, Henry Travers, Miles Mander. Very good in very good packaging. Originally released: 1940. Language: English. Run time: 93 mins. Box Has Lite Wear, Otherwise Nice Condition read more
Description: Bebe Daniels, Richard Arlen, William Powell, Melbourne MacDowell, George Irving, Charles Sellon, Heinie Conklin. New in new packaging. 1928 Run time: 86. Millionaire germ-freak leaves everything to his niece with one stipulation: she must maintain a germ-free life. Her inheritance? An island sanitarium that has been taken over by rum-runners! Based on the story by Howard Emmett Rogers. read more
Description: William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady, Gail Patrick, Eugene Pallette, Alan Mowbray, Mischa Auer, Jean Dixon, Jane Wyman... New in new packaging. 1936 Run time: 90. Zany millionaire family must find a "forgotten man" in a scavenger hunt, and the bum they bring home eventually becomes their butler. What they don't know is that he is actually richer than they are! Written & Produced by Gregory La Cava. read more
Description: Robert Armstrong, Carole Lombard, Tom Kennedy, Warner Richmond, Wade Boteler, George "Gabby" Hayes, Lew Ayres. New in new packaging. 1929 Run time: 66. Tough reporter is fired for going after a gangster who happens to be one of the paper's big advertisers, but is convinced the man is guilt of murder! Based on the play "For Two Cents" by George Brooks. read more
Description: Charles "Chic" Sale, Doris Kenyon, Mickey Bennett, Russell Griffin, Leslie King, Harlan Knight, May Kitson. New in new packaging. 1923 Run time: 60. Timid Professor Timmons can barely control his class of hooligans, but when the school house catches on fire, he has a chance to earn their respect. read more
Format: VHS Tape
Studio: Turner Home Entertainment
Date: 2002-01-01
UPC:053939520163
Description: Like New. Mint video, vhs, with hard shell case type jacket *this is NOT a dvd * as issued, like new * all videos are shipped securely, guaranteed for quality and to work properly* buy from professionals. read more
Description: William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady, Gail Patrick, Jean Dixon, Eugene Pallette. New in new packaging. Language: English. Run time: 95 mins. Originally released: 1936. BRAND NEW in SHRINK WRAP , desk read more
Format: DVD
DVD region: 0
Date: 1996
UPC:018713087362
Description: William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady, Gail Patrick, Jean Dixon Eugene Pallette, Alan Mowbray. Very good in good packaging. 1936 Language: English. Run time: approx. 90 minutes. Good Times Home Video print read more
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