Films with: Lombard, Carole

Brother, can you spare a dime?

This documentary juxtaposes newsreel footage, film clips and period music in an eye-opening look at the Great Depression. Many of the movies created in the 1930s featured strong social commentary, while others offered pure escapism and fed a fascination with a dazzling world out of reach to the everyday American. Through a contrast between the fantasy of film and the reality of everyday life, a fascinating perspective on the Great Depression and Hollywood's golden age is presented. Also includes political speeches by Franklin D. Roosevelt and others.

DVD 839

Columbia Pictures pre-code collection

Ten cents a dance: Barbara, a dance hall girl, marries Eddie, who turns out to be a compulsive gambler. Barbara turns to a former suitor and dance hall owner, Bradley Carlton, for help. Arizona: Bob Denton, a West Point football star, discovers that his commanding officer is married to his former girlfriend, a woman bent on revenge after he jilted her. Three wise girls: An innocent small-town girl trades her soda fountain job for a modeling job in New York. She quickly learns the ropes and perils of big city life, along with her wisecracking roommate and a fellow model. Shopworn: Kitty is a waitress who falls in love with Dave, a wealthy college student. Dave's high-society mother has a trumped-up morals charge made up against her. After leaving the reformatory, Kitty becomes a showgirl, and she meets Dave again. Virtue: An honest, enterprising taxi driver mistakes a prostitute for an unemployed stenographer. After a whirlwind courtship and marriage, the woman's past comes back to haunt her when a duplicitous acquaintance implicates her in a sordid affair.

DVD 9013

Eagle and the hawk

World War I drama about a reluctant hero struggling to deal with the horrors of war.

DVD 9762

Made for each other

Romantic drama about a young couple's struggles in their first year of marriage.

DVD 286

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

A bickering couple discover their marriage isn't legal, and go through the courtship process again.

DVD 5784

My man Godfrey

A zany millionaire family invite a tramp to be their butler and find that he is richer than they are.

DVD 324

Nothing sacred

A girl with a short time to live is given a free trip to New York for two weeks, but it's all a publicity hoax.

DVD 336

To be or not to be

"The world is on the brink of war-- but the show must go on. So Joseph Tura, the Polish actor who put the ham in Hamlet, stare beyond the footlights and says, "To be or not to be ..."--Container.

DVD 8663

Twentieth century

A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.

DVD 12584