Gene Lockhart
Language
English
Description
1947: The real Santa is hired by Macy's to play the department store's Santa in the Thanksgiving Day parade, but has to prove in court that he is who he says he is.
1994: Remake of the 1947 movie in which Kris Kringle (Attenborough), while working at Macy's, encounters an unbelieving child (Wilson) and goes on trial to prove he is Santa.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Doris Walker, a no-nonsense Macy's special events coordinator, desperately searches for a new store Santa. She hires Kris Kringle, who insists that he's the real Santa Claus. When Kris is committed to Bellevue after a confrontation with the store's psychiatrist, Doris's friend attorney Fred Gaily agrees to help Kris try to win his freedom in court.
Series
Language
English
Description
His girl Friday: Ace reporter Hilde Parks is ready to quit journalism and get married, but events--and her ex-husband editor--conspire to prevent it.
Penny serenade: A couple tries to hold their marriage together as they experience troubles while trying to start a family and a new business.
Language
English
Description
Fired from her job, reporter Ann Mitchell invents a fictitious "John Doe" to write an idealistic letter threatening suicide in protest of social ills. The public response to the letter is so enormous that Ann's newspaper rehires her and hires an out-of-work baseball player, John Willoughby to play the part of John Doe. He enters into the hoax for the money but ultimately rebels against the evil, self-serving despots who attempt to further their own...
Series
Criterion collection volume 849
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hildy Johnson is an reporter who is matched in force only by her conniving-but-charismatic ex-editor and ex-husband, Walter Burns, who dangles the chance for her to scoop her fellow news writers with the story of an impending execution in order to keep her from hopping the train that's supposed to take her to Albany and a new life as a housewife.
9) Going my way
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Father O'Malley is a young priest, new to an established but financially flailing parish. When his philosophies on how to relieve the parish's financial troubles come into conflict with those of crumudgeonly Father Fitzgibbon, the result is a timeless story of patience, compromise and understanding.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A Christmas carol: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge has a change of heart after spirits whisk him into the past, present and future.
Christmas in Connecticut: A magazine columnist totally devoid of the homemaking skills espoused in her column needs get some fast, as her boss has invited himself and a recently returned war hero for her home for Christmas.
It happened on 5th Avenue: GI families hit by the post-World War II housing crunch take over an abandoned...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Main to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career and come back to Texas and take over the ranch.
"From best-selling humorist Max Shulman (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis) comes this zany comedy starring Van Johnson, Janet Leigh and Louis Calhern, based on a story cowritten by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Herman Wouk (The Caine...
Series
Criterion collection volume 214
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Having promised his soul to the Devil in exchange for good fortune, Jabez Stone asks the talented lawyer Daniel Webster to get him out of the bargain.
17) His girl Friday
Publisher
Osiris Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Hildy Johnson is a reporter who is matched in force only by her conniving-but-charismatic ex-editor and ex-husband, Walter Burns, who dangles the chance for her to scoop her fellow news writers with the story of an impending execution in order to keep her from hopping the train that's supposed to take her to Albany and a new life as a housewife.
Series
20th Century Fox studio classics volume 26
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
An extremely possessive woman will do whatever it takes to keep her husband all to herself, even murder.
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"In their relentless battle against Hitler, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. were comrades ... or at least comrades-in-arms. Hollywood joined the fight with Mission to Moscow, based on Ambassador Joseph E. Davies' bestseller about his pre-World War II experiences in the Soviet Union. The film features Academy Award winner Walter Huston as Davies, plus accomplished actors playing the headline-dominating figures of Churchill, Stalin, von Ribbentrop, Litvinov,...
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2018
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. The front page: An investigative reporter gets the opportunity for the story of a lifetime when an accused murderer escapes. He has a good chance of getting the scoop when he locates the escapee and, with the help of his editor, hides him in a roll-top desk at the newspaper.