Ben Hecht
1) My story
Author
Publisher
Taylor Trade Pub
Edition
Illustrated ed., 1st Taylor Trade Pub. ed.
Language
English
Description
Little known and long unavailable, this autobiography, written by actress and starlet Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), describes her early adolescence, her rise in the film industry from bit player to celebrity, and her marriage to Joe DiMaggio, and more.
3) Notorious
Series
Language
English
Description
"With this twisted love story, Alfred Hitchcock summoned darker shades of suspense and passion by casting two of Hollywood's most beloved stars starkly against type. Ingrid Bergman plays Alicia, an alluring woman with a checkered past recruited by Devlin (Cary Grant), a suave, mysterious intelligence agent, to spy for the U.S. Only after she has fallen for Devlin does she learn that her mission is to seduce a Nazi industrialist (Claude Rains) hiding...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
He's a private eye on the run from a conspiracy rap in a phony murder case. She's a dizzy poet he takes hostage, and takes on the adventure of her life to track down the real killer. Naturally, despite constant peril and the PI's penchant for goofball disguises, romance blooms. Join two iconic stars in a comic world that's wacky, witty and completely wonderful.
Publisher
Olive Films
Language
English
Description
A young aspiring actress dies after making her first movie. Granting her final request, a Hollywood press agent brings the body of the actress, who died after making her first and only film, back to her hometown to be buried. To arouse public interest, and to get the reluctant studio head to release the film, he asks all the local churches to ring their bells for three days.
8) Spellbound
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Edition
Premiere collection.
Language
English
Description
A psychologist falls for a suspect in a murder, which she tries to solve by unlocking the clues hidden in his mind.
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 750
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
A striking crime drama based on a novel by Dorothy B. Hughes. A tough-talking former GI who comes to a small New Mexico town to shake down a gangster who killed his best friend; things quickly turn nasty.
11) The front page
Publisher
Universal
Edition
Widescreen presentation.
Language
English
Description
The story finds hard-nosed editor Walter Burns trying every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter Hildy Johnson from leaving the newspaper business to get married.
Publisher
Delta Entertainment Corp
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
His girl Friday: An unscrupulous newspaper editor uses every dirty trick in the book to keep his ace reporter/ex-wife from retiring and remarrying in this twist on The Front Page.
Cary Grant on film: A biography of the career of Cary Grant, with selections of scenes from his movies highlighting his career.
13) Jumbo
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
The greatest show on earth comes to the screen in this circus epic set at the turn of the century. The story centers on Pop Wonder (Jimmy Durante), his daughter Kitty (Doris Day), his long-suffering fiancee of fourteen years, Lulu (Martha Raye), and Sam Rawlins (Stephen Boyd), the spy who comes to steal Pop's circus and falls in love with Kitty. Includes lavish and colorful musical numbers featuring the songs of Rodgers and Hart. Doris Day delivers...
14) Monkey business
Publisher
Twentieth Century Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A secretary and her boss can't stop themselves from engaging in a little monkey business after a chimpanzee accidentally concocts, then dumps, an anti-aging formula into the office water cooler.
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 592
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Edition
Full screen version; Two-DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
A trio of Americans in Paris who enter into a very adult 'gentleman's' agreement, in this continental pre-Code comedy freely adapted by Ben Hecht (Notorious) from a play. A risque relationship comedy and a witty take on creative pursuits, it concerns a commercial artist unable, or unwilling, to choose between the equally dashing painter and playwright she meets on a train en route to the City of Light.
Language
English
Description
Her husband's affairs: When a miracle hair removing cream turns out to be a hair growth cream, the ad-man is accused of murdering the inventor and the advertiser's wife must come to his rescue.
Miss Grant takes Richmond: A clueless secretary threatens the office owner's illegal bookmaking business.
The Fuller Brush girl: A bumbling door-to-door saleswoman is framed for a murder. She and her boyfriend flee from police to track down the real criminal.
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