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    Omnibus. IV, vol. 10 Catalog Record Only An episode of the television cultural anthology series consisting of 4 segments of varying lengths.
    • Contributor: CBS Television Network - Wesleyan University Collection (Library of Congress) - Kitt, Eartha - Genn, Leo - Neal, Patricia - Ford Foundation. Tv-Radio Workshop - Silverstein, Elliot - Stix, John - Bernstein, Leonard - Saudek (Robert) Collection (Library of Congress) ... CBS Television Network - Wesleyan University Collection (Library of Congress) - Kitt, Eartha - Genn, Leo - Neal, Patricia - Ford Foundation. Tv-Radio Workshop - Silverstein, Elliot - Stix, John - Bernstein, Leonard - Saudek (Robert) Collection (Library of Congress) - Cooke, Alistair - Landau, Martin - Saudek, Robert - Butler, John - Wilde, Oscar - Hale, William - Russell, Anna
    • Date: 1955
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    Get Shorty Catalog Record Only PA767-548 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Inc. NM: motion picture, including audio, visual, new music and other cinematographic material. DCR 1995; PUB 20Oct95; REG 12Feb96; PA767-548. Production design, Peter Larkin ; editor, Jim Miller ; music, John Lurie ; camera, Don Peterman. John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito. Based on the novel by Elmore Leonard. Sources used: Variety, 10/09/95; copyright data...
    • Contributor: Devito, Danny - Travolta, John - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Sonnenfeld, Barry - Leonard, Elmore - Hackman, Gene - Russo, Rene
    • Date: 1995
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    The RKO story--tales from Hollywood. [Episode two, Let's face the music and dance] = Hollywood--the golden years. Episode two, Let's face the music and dance
    Tales from Hollywood | Let's face the music and dance | Hollywood--the golden years | Golden years | RKO story Catalog Record Only
    The story behind the making of the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals at RKO is told through film clips from their movies and interviews with Astaire, Rogers, and people involved in the productions.
    • Contributor: Asner, Edward - LC Off-Air Taping Collection (Library of Congress) - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Wilton, Rosemary - Chabot, Charles
    • Date: 1991
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    You got served ; Gridiron gang ; Stomp the yard
    Stomp the yard | Gridiron gang | At head of title on container: 3 triple feature Catalog Record Only
    You got served: At Mr. Rad's Warehouse, the best hip-hop crews in Los Angeles compete for money and respect. But a crew from the suburbs moves in and crashes the party, stealing their dancers, and their moves. Elgin and David are street dancers who will have to pull together in order to believe in themselves, their crew, and in their dreams if they are...
    • Contributor: Mill Creek Entertainment
    • Date: 2016
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    The barefoot contessa Catalog Record Only With extraordinary beauty, talent and grace, Spanish dancer Maria Vargas (Ava Gardner) was born to be a star. Aided by American movie director Harry Dawes (Humphrey Bogart), she attains great success and fortune in Hollywood's land of dreams. But, though she gives her all for stardom, there is one thing Maria will never compromise - her soul.
    • Contributor: Bogart, Humphrey - Mankiewicz, Joseph L. - Cortese, Valentina - Stevens, Warren - Twilight Time (Firm) - Sellars, Elizabeth - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - O'Brien, Edmond - Brazzi, Rossano - Gardner, Ava - Love, Bessie - Goring, Marius
    • Date: 2016
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    Graceland. The complete first season Catalog Record Only It seems like a sweet deal when new FBI agent Mike Warren's first assignment lands him in a beautiful L.A. beachfront mansion with other young undercover government agents, including his idol, legendary FBI agent Paul Briggs. But loyalties are tested and lives are put on the line when Warren is ordered to secretly investigate Briggs.
    • Contributor: Tveit, Aaron - Ehrlich, Jon - Montana, Manny - Jeff Eastin & Warrior George Productions - McLaren, Brandon Jay - Eastin, Jeff - Fox Television Studios - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc - Ferlito, Vanessa - Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation - Swan, Serinda - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Sunjata, Daniel
    • Date: 2014
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    Hitchcock Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Plagued by both a reckless ego and nagging self-doubt, Hollywood legend Alfred Hitchcock becomes obsessed with a grisly murder story that the studios won't back. Determined, he risks his reputation, his home and even the love of his wife Alma, as he sets out to make the film.
    • Contributor: Fox Searchlight Pictures - Cold Spring Pictures - Hopkins, Anthony - Reitman, Ivan - McLaughlin, John J. - Pollock, Tom - Collette, Toni - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc - Rebello, Stephen - Medjuck, Joe ... Fox Searchlight Pictures - Cold Spring Pictures - Hopkins, Anthony - Reitman, Ivan - McLaughlin, John J. - Pollock, Tom - Collette, Toni - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc - Rebello, Stephen - Medjuck, Joe - Montecito Picture Company - Barnette, Alan - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Huston, Danny - Mirren, Helen - Johansson, Scarlett - Stuhlbarg, Michael - Gervasi, Sacha - Thayer, Tom - Biel, Jessica
    • Date: 2013
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    Inside Daisy Clover Catalog Record Only "Fifteen-year-old gamine Daisy Clover sings from the silver screen to an adoring public, although in the 1930s, 'star treatment' can go all the way from being discovered to being discarded"--Container. Special feature: Cartoon war and pieces; theatrical trailer.
    • Contributor: Plummer, Christopher - Holland, Edna - Wood, Natalie - Warner Bros. Pictures - Harford, Betty - Hale, John - McDowall, Roddy - Pakula, Alan J. - Nesmith, Ottola - Gordon, Ruth ... Plummer, Christopher - Holland, Edna - Wood, Natalie - Warner Bros. Pictures - Harford, Betty - Hale, John - McDowall, Roddy - Pakula, Alan J. - Nesmith, Ottola - Gordon, Ruth - Gould, Harold - Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Firm) - Redford, Robert - Lambert, Gavin - Helm, Peter - Mulligan, Robert
    • Date: 2020
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    Redbelt Catalog Record Only A fateful event leads to a job in the film business for top mixed-martial arts instructor Mike Terry. Though he refuses to participate in prize bouts, circumstances conspire to force him to consider entering such a competition.
    • Contributor: Allen, Tim - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Ejiofor, Chiwetel - Mortimer, Emily - Braga, Alice - Verges, Chrisann - Mamet, David - Sony Pictures Classics (Firm)
    • Date: 2008
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    Salt of the earth Catalog Record Only Salt of the earth depicts the attempt of a New Mexican mining company to break a bitter union strike against unsafe working conditions. The story also addresses the prejudice against the Mexican-American workers, who strike to attain wage parity with Anglo workers and to be treated with dignity by the bosses. The wives of the miners play a pivotal role in the strike, against...
    • Contributor: Wilson, Michael - Berry, John - Jarrico, Paul - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) - Biberman, H. J. (Herbert J.) - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1987
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    Thank your lucky stars Catalog Record Only Two producers are putting together a wartime charity show with an all-star cast but the egotism of radio personality Eddie Cantor disrupts their plans.
    • Contributor: Cantor, Eddie - Hellinger, Mark - Freeman, Everett - Bogart, Humphrey - Butler, David - Schwartz, Arthur - Warner Home Video (Firm) - Panama, Norman - Frank, Melvin - Kern, James V. - Morgan, Dennis
    • Date: 2015
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    White men can't jump Catalog Record Only Two men, one black and one white, team up as a pair of basketball hustlers, and con their way across the courts of Los Angeles.
    • Contributor: Shelton, Ron - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Harrelson, Woody - Miller, Don - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc - Perez, Rosie - Wallace, Bennie - Lester, David V. - Snipes, Wesley
    • Date: 2002
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    Die hard Catalog Record Only It's Christmas time in L.A. and on the 30th floor of the Nakatomi Corporation building there's an employee party in progress. The revelry comes to a violent end when the partygoers are taken hostage by a group of terrorists headed by Hans Gruber, who plans to steal the 600 million dollars locked in Nakatomi's high-tech safe. Gruber and his henchmen pretend to be politically...
    • Contributor: Gordon, Lawrence - Rickman, Alan - Godunov, Alexander - Silver, Joel - McTiernan, John - Gordon Company - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc - Bedelia, Bonnie - Silver Pictures - Willis, Bruce - De Souza, Steve - Thorp, Roderick - Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation - Stuart, Jeb
    • Date: 2007
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    Mildred Pitts Walter oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in San Mateo, California, 2013 March 01 Mildred Pitts Walter discusses her early life in Louisiana, attending Southern University, and moving to Los Angeles in 1944. Pitts recalls meeting Earl Walter whom she married two years later, her work with Earl who headed the Los Angeles chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) from 1951 to 1963, CORE pickets of housing developers in Los Angeles, and her work as a...
    • Contributor: Walter, Mildred Pitts - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P.
    • Date: 2013-01-01

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    Pretty woman Catalog Record Only Vivian is a spirited, streetwise prostitute working on Hollywood Boulevard. She meets the prince of her dreams in Edward Lewis. Edward is a ruthless and wealthy businessman who does not realize that she could be more than just a girl from the sidewalk. He changes his decision after the first night with the beautiful stranger. Edward hires her for a week of business events...
    • Contributor: Howard, James Newton - Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm) - San Giacomo, Laura - Marshall, Garry - Gere, Richard - Lawton, J. F. (Jonathan F.) - Elizondo, Hector - Touchstone Pictures - Alexander, Jason - Roberts, Julia - Milchan, Arnon - Bellamy, Ralph - Silver Screen Partners IV - Reuther, Steven
    • Date: 2009
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    [Mary Pickford and the Coquette contest winners]
    Mary Pickford and beauty contest winners
    A film featuring the 25 "Coquette girls", winners of a contest conducted as a sales promotion for Mary Pickford's first sound film, Coquette. Newspapers such as the Washington evening star, the New Haven register, and the Louisville courier-journal held a contest in January, 1929. The contestents appear to have been chosen on the basis of "letters of nomination" written by, or for, the girls....
    • Contributor: Pickford Corp
    • Date: 1929
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    Hitchcock
    Alfred Hitchcock and the making of Psycho Catalog Record Only
    "Director Sacha Gervasi adapts Stephen Rebello's book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho to explore the relationship between the legendary British director (Anthony Hopkins) and his wife Alma Reville (Helen Mirren), who played a crucial behind-the-scenes role in the making of her husband's terrifying 1960 classic Psycho. Scarlett Johansson co-stars as Janet Leigh and James D'Arcy portrays Anthony Perkins in a film also...
    • Contributor: Fox Searchlight Pictures - Cold Spring Pictures - Hopkins, Anthony - Reitman, Ivan - McLaughlin, John J. - Pollock, Tom - Dune Entertainment - Ingenious Media - Rebello, Stephen - Medjuck, Joe ... Fox Searchlight Pictures - Cold Spring Pictures - Hopkins, Anthony - Reitman, Ivan - McLaughlin, John J. - Pollock, Tom - Dune Entertainment - Ingenious Media - Rebello, Stephen - Medjuck, Joe - Montecito Picture Company - Barnette, Alan - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - D'arcy, James - Mirren, Helen - Johansson, Scarlett - Gervasi, Sacha - Thayer, Tom
    • Date: 2012
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    Angel. Democracy
    Democracy
    Angelique, known as Angel, moves from France to the United States to marry American architect, John Smith. The newlyweds set up housekeeping in Los Angeles, California. She tries her best to be a good housewife but sometimes runs into problems as she learns English and adapts to her new life and culture. In this episode Angel and Johnny decide to oppose a change in...
    • Contributor: Leslie, Phil - Singleton, Doris - Nicoletti, Louis - Thompson, Marshall - CBS Television Network - Daniel, Eliot - Oppenheimer, Jess - Keefer, Don - Molin, Bud - Baker, Elsie ... Leslie, Phil - Singleton, Doris - Nicoletti, Louis - Thompson, Marshall - CBS Television Network - Daniel, Eliot - Oppenheimer, Jess - Keefer, Don - Molin, Bud - Baker, Elsie - De Grasse, Robert - CBS Films - Albertson, Jack - Stone, Ezra - Feldman, Edward H. (Edward Henry) - Burlingame Productions - Parnell, Emory - Sherman, Fred - McLeod, Catherine - Waterman, Willard - Johnson, Lamont - Fargé, Annie
    • Date: 1961
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    The RKO story--tales from Hollywood. [Episode five, Dark victory] = Hollywood--the golden years. Episode five, Dark victory
    Tales from Hollywood | Dark victory | Hollywood--the golden years | Golden years | RKO story Catalog Record Only
    The effect of the war on RKO movies and its psychological legacy--film noir--are explored. Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer talk about their careers in film noir movies. The effects of the House Un-American Activities Committee on Hollywood and RKO are discussed by black-listed directors Edward Dmytryk and Paul Jarrico.
    • Contributor: Asner, Edward - LC Off-Air Taping Collection (Library of Congress) - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Wilton, Rosemary - Chabot, Charles
    • Date: 1991