Audrey Hepburn
Language
English
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"For the first time ever on Blu-ray, remastered from a 4K film transfer, Roman Holiday features a legendary, Oscar-winning performance from Audrey Hepburn (in her first starring role). Nominated for a total of 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, it's the story of a modern-day princess who, rebelling against the royal obligations, explores Rome on her own. She soon meets an American newspaperman (Gregory Peck) who pretends ignorance of her true...
2) Funny face
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fashion photographer Dick Avery takes over a bookstore for a photo shoot. The store is left in shambles, much to salesgirl Jo Stockton's dismay. Avery stays behind to help clean up. Later, he examines the photos and sees Jo in the background. The editor of a leading fashion magazine and Avery offer Jo a modeling contract, which she accepts only because it includes a trip to Paris. Eventually, her snobbish attitude towards the job softens; she begins...
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
On their third identical voyage from London to the Riviera, a couple explore their 12-year marriage in a series of wry and illuminating flashbacks. They reminisce about the glorious beginning of their love affair, the early years of marriage and the events that led to their subsequent infidelities. As they try to understand their relationship, they realize they must accept how they have changed if they are to rekindle their original love.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Audrey Hepburn portrays a nun whose life journey takes her from the staff of a mental asylum to a surgical nurse in the Belgian Congo. She returns to Belgium as WWII breaks out and is torn between the needs of the Resistance and the church's neutrality.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
When a vindictive little girl is disciplined in an exclusive girl's school, the child twists an overheard comment into slander. She accuses her teachers of lesbianism and her gullible grandmother spreads the gossip. Outraged, Karen and Martha fight back in court, but a child's lie is hard to disprove.
6) Charade
Series
Criterion collection ; 57
Language
English
Description
Comedy-mystery set in Paris about a young widow, pursued by a trio of thugs, who with the help of a handsome stranger is trying to find the fortune her dead husband secreted away. But who can she trust?
Language
English
Description
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. Her next-door neighbor, a writer, is "sponsored" by a wealthy patroness. Guessing who's the right man for Holly is easy; seeing just how romance blossoms is one of the enduring delights of the film.
Special features: shorts "A Golightly gathering," "Henry Mancini : more than music," "Mr. Yunioshi : an Asian perspective," "The making of a classic,"...
8) Sabrina
Language
English
Description
David and Linus are brothers running the family corporation. When the chauffeur's daughter comes back from Paris she finds she has the attention of David, whom she has always liked, but starts to fall in love with Linus. Includes bonus features.
10) Always
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A legendary pilot with a passion for daredevil fighting sacrifices himself to save his best friend and then help his lover move on with her life.
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Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Grammy Winner: Best Spoken Word Album for Children
In addition to her acclaimed performances on film- including her Academy Award-winning role in Roman Holiday- Audrey Hepburn was also a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF, an organization dedicated to the lives of children. As one of her final projects for young listeners, Hepburn left the world a treasure of exquisitely told fairy tales. This recording features Mary Sheldon's...
12) My fair lady
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this beloved adaptation of the Broadway stage hit, Eliza a sassy, working class London street vendor, and a professor who takes a wager to turn her into a sophisticated lady through schooling. But when the humble flower girl blossoms into the toast of London's elite, her teacher may have a lesson or two to learn himself"--adapted from container.
13) Charade
Language
English
Description
Regina finds herself pursued through the streets of Paris by several men in search of the fortune that her murdered husband stole from them. As her world becomes entangled with suspense, murder and plots twists, she finds herself leaning on a suave, charming stranger whose motives are unclear.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. Her upstairs neighbor, a writer, is "sponsored" by a wealthy patroness. Guessing who's the right man for Holly is easy; seeing just how romance blossoms is one of the enduring delights of the film.
16) Wait until dark
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A photographer unwittingly smuggles a doll stuffed with heroin into New York City. His recently blinded wife, alone in their apartment, is first terrorized by hired crooks, and then by the psychopathic Roat, in search of the doll.
17) My fair lady
Language
English
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Description
Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, meets linguistic expert Henry Higgins. Higgins, in turn, bets with his companion, Colonel Pickering, that, within six months, he could transform Eliza into a proper lady, simply by teaching her proper English. The next morning, face and hands freshly scrubbed, Eliza presents herself on Higgins' doorstep, ready and willing to be turned into a lady.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Frank Flannegan, an American playboy infamous for his scandalous affairs is smitten by Arlane, the beautiful, innocent daughter of the worldly detective, hired by a man who believes that Frank is carrying on with his wife. Frank turns out to be no match for Arlane and they stumble through one of the funniest seductions.