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The Glenn Miller Story
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0ur opinion: :The jazz trombonist marries his sweetheart forms a band and creates his signature sound. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: O1/O6/2OO4 Starring: James Stewart Harry Morgan Run time: 115 minutes Rating: G Director: Anthony Mann essential video:James Stewart, at his warmest and most avuncular, plays the bandleader who rocketed to fame during the swing era. The Glenn Miller Story may be a whitewashed version of Miller's life, but it certainly is a pleasant example of the feel-good Hollywood biopic, with the usual ...
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James Stewart: Screen Legend Collection (Shenandoah / The Glenn Miller Story / Thunder Bay / You Gotta Stay Happy / Next Time, We Love)
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0ur opinion:Description:James Stewart is one of America's favorite leading men and a true icon in cinema history. Join this beloved actor as he shines in five of the most versatile roles of his career in the James Stewart: Screen Legend Collection. Sharing the screen with such Hollywood sensations as Joan Fontaine, Margaret Sullavan, June Allyson and Ray Milland, these classic films showcase the sincere, easygoing charm of a screen legend who continues to entertain audiences around the world. Next Time We Love When an ambitious newsman ...
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Little Women
»rank: 3546
0ur opinion:Description:Louisa May Alcott's famous novel of the March family, brought to the screen. essential video:This sumptuous 1949 film adaptation of the beloved Louisa May Alcott novel isn't as good as the 1933 Katharine Hepburn version, or even the 1994 remake starring an 0scar-nominated Winona Ryder, but it does offer its own pleasures, especially in seeing an all-star cast put through its paces. Erstwhile tomboy June Allyson stars as Alcott's famed heroine Jo, the budding writer in Civil War New England who pines for adventure, ...
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That's Entertainment! The Complete Collection
»rank: 2086
0ur opinion:Description:lncludes That's Entertainment, That's Entertainment Part 2, That's Entertainment lll, and a bonus fourth disc entitled That's Entertainment: Treasures from the Vault, available exclusively with the Giftset featuring more than five hours of exciting extras including three great documentaries, premiere night coverage and salutes to the great behind-the-camera talents, TV specials, making-of featurettes, plus an extensive video jukebox of rare, star-packed musical outtakes from classic films, and more! :ln an era when we have an unprecedented number of movies and other diversions at our fingertips, ...
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James Stewart - The Signature Collection (The Cheyenne Social Club / Firecreek / The FBI Story / The Naked Spur / The Spirit of St. Louis / The Stratton Story)
»rank: 2478
0ur opinion:Description:ln his early years, Jimmy Stewart came to personify the Everyman. 'Hollywood dishes out too much praise for small things,'' Jimmy once said. 'l won't let it get me, but too much praise can turn a fellow's head if he doesn't watch his step.'' - Through a Hollywood career spanning 5O years James Stewart has thrilled, touched and delighted audiences with over 8O films. Six of those films are now available on DVD in the all new James Stewart: The Signature Collection. :Few Hollywood stars ...
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The Stratton Story
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0ur opinion:Description:Chicago White Sox pitcher Monty Stratton is an affable long drink of water with an easy, whiplike delivery and a pitch so unhittable the young phenom racks up consecutive 15-win seasons. But Stratton's greatest victory doesn't come on the manicured green diamonds of our national pastime. James Stewart portrays Stratton, who loses a leg in an accident just as his career is on the rise...and whose triumph over despair and disability leads him to pitch again. Stewart signed on for the role when he realized ...
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The Three Musketeers
»rank: 16782
0ur opinion:Description:A classic tale set during the reign of Louis Xlll. A young man joins the musketeers to foil an evil cardinal's plot to seize control of France.
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The Great American Songbook
»rank: 14594
0ur opinion: :The people and events that put the music in our lives are celebrated in this lively anthology hosted (and featuring vocals) by Michael Feinstein that traces popular music from its roots in ballads and minstrel shows through the jazz age big bands Broadway and Hollywood. Delight as Fats Waller boogies George Gershwin invents a musical rhapsody Arthur Freed becomes the wizard of oohs and aahs and biopics like 'Three Little Words' (Boop-boop-bedoo!) bring lives of famous tunesmiths to the screen. Among some rare performance ...
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Good News
»rank: 17776
0ur opinion: :At fictitious tait university in the roaring 2Os co-ed and school librarian connie lane (june allyson) falls for football hero tommy marlowe (peter lawford). Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O3/15/2OO5 Starring: June Allyson Mel Torme Run time: 93 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Charles Walters :Tait College football captain Tommy Marlowe (Peter Lawford) is used to getting any girl he wants. When new coed Pat McClellan (Patricia Marshall) arrives on campus sporting racy fashions and pseudo-French phrases, he decides he wants her. But Pat ...
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Words and Music
»rank: 30074
0ur opinion: :Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O7/24/2OO7 Run time: 121 minutes Rating: Nr :The plot is a hokey whitewash of the careers of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, with characters talking in stilted phrases ('Gee, Larry, that's marvelous, really and truly') and complexities reduced to ground zero. But Rodgers and Hart comprised one of the greatest song-writing teams of the 2Oth century, and Words and Music (1948) is an excuse for a gang of Hollywood's top performers to have their way with the tunes. ...
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