Alice Faye
1) State fair
Language
English
Description
A musical about the Frake family and their adventures at the Iowa State Fair. Each member of the family is out for a different prize--Father wants a blue ribbon for his favorite pig, Mother wants her prized pickles to finally win a prize and for their son and daughter the hunt is on for true love.
Series
Studio classic volume 33
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 94 min.) : sd., b&w, double sided ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story centers on the O'Leary family, whose eldest boys achieve notoriety and power in 19th century Chicago. After Dion helps Jack get elected mayor, they lock horns over Chicago's slums. The whole town takes sides and then old Chicago is wiped out by the fire of 1871.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 105 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Roger and his friend Charlie audition at a saloon in San Francisco's Barbary Coast. The number "Alexander's ragtime band" proves to be a sensation. Charlie soon falls in love with Stella who is the singer of the band. When Roger returns from World War I, he meets Stella and learns she and Charlie have married.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Full frame.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rose Sargent dreams of being a star but can only find work singing in dive bars and speakeasies. When she meets the handsome charmer Bart Clinton the two instantly fall in love. But he's a gambler and a con artist who seems to always wiggle his way in and out of trouble. While singing at her friend Ted Cotter's party. Rose is discovered by a top agent and her life and career take off towards stardom. Rose quickly realizes she must choose which life...
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a cruise ship runs aground, an ocean liner executive is forced to offer a winsome passenger a free trip to Havana in this colorful, zesty musical.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mona Merrick infuriates an heiress by savagely portraying her in a hit play. When the show's producer begins a love affair with the heiress, jealous Mona makes her satirical performance even more scathing, setting off fireworks between the couple.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A coast-to-coast radio program is set up to bring everyone back together
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A talented singer is abandoned by her ambitious saloon-owner beau for a heartless socialite. After becoming a huge star in England, she returns when his marriage crumbles, hoping that he still loves her.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true-life adventures of the first female performers to join the U.S.O., Kay Francis, Carole Landis, Martha Raye and Mitzi Mayfair play themselves in the film adaptation of Carole Landis's novel by the same name.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Molly Adair is a toiling stage actress in New York City. She aspires to make it big in the fledgling motion picture business. As the years pass, Molly's star continues to rise. Hollywood director Michael Linnet Connors discovers Molly and takes her from a Broadway understudy to a 1913 Hollywood star. She marries her co-star thinking Connors is not in love with her. Connors fires both of them, damaging his career.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Don Ameche and Alice Faye pair up as husband and wife, Baron and Baroness Duarte, and head to South America in this musical classic. In order to avoid some financial problems, the Baron switches places with impersonator Larry Martin "Direto da Broadway" (also Ameche). When Martin's affections for the Baroness are too kind and romantic, both the Baroness and Martin's girlfriend Carmen realize their men are up to something.
13) Lillian Russell
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A biography of American actress and singer Lillian Russell, from her discovery in 1890 by band leader Tony Pastor until her retirement in 1912, when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young showgirl falls for a playboy soldier the night before his leave. When he comes back and is given a medal, he finds that she's singing at the celebration his family has arranged, and she finds that he gave her an assumed name and is engaged.