Jane Wyman
1) Pollyanna
Series
Pub. Date
[1960]
Language
English
Description
A young orphan brings sunshine into the lives of everyone she meets with her optimistic outlook on life.
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Drama student Eve Gill envisions the acting challenge of a lifetime in the desperate predicament of a boy friend Jonathan Cooper, being framed for the murder of the husband of flamboyant stage star Charlotte Inwood. To prove Jonathan's innocence and Charlotte's guilt, Eve impersonates a maid and goes to work for Charlotte. For Eve, undercover work is like playing a game, but she's about to encounter other actors who are playing for keeps.
Series
Criterion collection volume 457
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from a rescue team. They have to use the town's only resuscitator. At that same moment the beloved, local doctor has a heart attack and dies while waiting for the life-saving device. When Bob learns about the doctor's secret - to give selflessley and in secret - he decides to give it a try. He alienates the doctor's widow, Helen, with whom Bob has now fallen in love....
7) The yearling
Language
English
Description
A young boy, Jody, living with his family on the Florida frontier shortly after the Civil War, must sacrifice his pet fawn for his family's survival.
Series
Criterion collection volume 95
Language
English
Formats
Description
The film follows the blossoming love between a well-off suburban widow and her handsome and earthy younger gardener. After their romance prompts the scorn of her selfish children and snooty country club friends, she must decide whether to pursue her own happiness or carry on a lonely, hemmed-in existence for the sake of the approval of others.
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Attractive, wealthy, middle-aged widow Cary Scott falls for her gardener, who is fifteen years younger than she is, and becomes the target of small-minded gossips and her disapproving family. The Blu-ray includes a profile of director Douglas Sirk and more.
11) Magic town
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen.
Language
English
Description
When a pollster discovers a small town that is statistically identical to the country as a whole, he rushes to gather data from the townpeople in secret, but a romance with the town's newspaper editor threatens the entire operation.
12) Pollyanna
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen [edition].
Language
English
Description
A young orphan brings sunshine into the lives of everyone she meets with her optimistic outlook on life.
Series
Criterion collection volume 95
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Cary Scott, an attractive and wealthy New England widow, creates a social outcry in her community and within her family when she becomes romantically involved with Ron Kirby, her much younger gardener.
14) Larceny, Inc
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Pressure Maxwell emerges from Sing Sing planning to run a dog track with his cronies Jug and Weepy. But a plan needs dough, so the boys open a luggage shop as a front while attempting to tunnel into the bank next door. The store gains unexpected success. Hanging around the store is a gabby traveling valise salesman. A sour con arrives wanting in on their action.
15) Johnny Belinda
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"In post-war Cape Breton, a doctor's efforts to tutor a deaf/mute woman are undermined when she is raped and the resulting pregnancy causes scandal to swirl" --IMDb.
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Mr. Blandings builds his dream house: Cary Grant plays a successful New York advertising executive who wants to escape his current living situation. He decides to design his own dream house in the suburbs and the project turns wrong when the bills never end and the problems never stop.
My favorite wife: A funny thing happens to Nick on his way to his honeymoon suite. He meets his wife. No, not his bride. He meets the wife that was lost at sea seven...
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