Jack Lemmon
1) Avanti!
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1972.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (144 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In this hilarious romantic comedy from writer/director Billy Wilder and screenwriter I.A.L. Diamond, wealthy American Wendell Armbruster, Jr. (Jack Lemmon) discovers true love when he is summoned to Italy after a car accident claims the lives of his father and his father's secret mistress. As the mistress' daughter (Juliet Mills) also arrives in town, the bodies of both of their parents disappear, and the two instant foes are brought together in a...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Neil Simon has a special genius for finding the great hilarity in ordinary people doing everyday things. Like two divorced men who decide to share a New York apartment. That's the premise of The Odd Couple, though there's nothing odd in the casting of two Oscar®-winning talents like Jack Lemmon and Walter Mathau. The two veteran funnymen work together with the precision timing of a vaudeville team, but always with bright spontaneity. Lemmon plays...
3) Jack Lemmon
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
1972
Physical Desc
1 online resource (28 min.)
Language
English
Description
Elliot Norton interviews actor Jack Lemmon.
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1960.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (125 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Ambitious insurance clerk C.C. "Bud" Baxter (Jack Lemmon) attempts to climb the corporate ladder by loaning his apartment key to his superiors for their extramarital affairs, but the plan backfires when Bud unwittingly falls for the top executive's current girlfriend, Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine). Fred MacMurray co-stars in this Billy Wilder classic that would go on to win five Academy Awards® including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original...
5) 12 Angry Men
Publisher
MGM
Language
English
Description
Life is in their hands…death is on their minds. Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley and Jack Klugman lead the distinctive cast in this powerful, classic film. Eleven jurors are convinced that the defendant is guilty of murder. The twelfth has no doubt of his innocence. How can this one man steer the others toward the same conclusion? It's a case of seemingly overwhelming evidence against a teenager accused of killing his father in "one of the best...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1973.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (100 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Jack Lemmon plays Harry Stoner, a man caught in violent collision with his past and present life. He believes there is nothing significant in his life except survival, and that instinct pushes him beyond moral conduct. Winner of Best Actor in a Leading Role (Jack Lemmon) and nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Jack Gilford) and Best Adapted Screenplay at the **Academy Awards**. Nominated for Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Supporting...
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (100 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The real story behind the world of sales. This is a realistic portrayal of what it is to try making a life in high pressure sales with all its highs and lows; promises of fortunes and deliveries of dross. Red-leads and dead-leads are to blame for life's outcomes. Living with "Objection, Rebuttal, Close". **Academy Award** nominee. **Venice Film Festival** winner. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival** and **Toronto International...
Publisher
MGM
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Chicago musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) accidentally witness a mob hit, they trade in their union suits for flapper frocks and hightail it down to Florida as the newest members of an all-girl jazz band, "Josephine" and "Daphne". Their cover is perfect...until a lovelorn singer (Marilyn Monroe) falls for "Josephine," and a mob boss refuses to fall for their hoax! Nominated for 7 Academy Awards®, "SOME LIKE IT HOT" is...
Publisher
Touchstone Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When he learns that his former college professor is dying, Mitch, a busy sports journalist, makes time to visit him and finds his own outlook on life changed by his conversations with the dying teacher.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
They used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Two former one-term presidents are framed in a scandal by the current president and pursued across the U.S. by armed agents. The two squabbling political foes plunge into a desperate and delightfully frantic search for the evidence that will establish their innocence. As they scramble through the real America, they get an unexpected crash course in how their policies affected the citizens....
12) Dad
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2005, c1989
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A work-obsessed man returns home when his mother is hospitalized, and finds that his father, whom he hasn't seen for 2 years, has deteriorated. Through careful nurturing, the young man revitalizes his father and reestablishes a close relationship with him.
13) The great race
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (160 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Comedy about a turn-of-the-century automobile race from New York to Paris.
14) Some like it hot
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Special ed.; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (4 p.)
Language
English
Description
Two unemployed muscians accidently witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and flee to Miami disguised as female musicians.
15) Out-of-towners
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Ohio couple experience the trip from hell while in New York, when everything that could go wrong does.
16) Irma la Douce
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (143 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Comedy about a young Parisian policeman and his romance with a prostitute.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
10-year anniversary special ed.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Times are tough at the real estate firm of Premiere Properties. Shelley "the machine" Levene (Lemmon) and Dave Moss (Harris) are veteran salesmen, but only Ricky Roma (Pacino) is on a hot streak. The new Glengarry sales leads could turn everything around, but the front office is holding them back until these "losers" prove themselves. Then someone decides to take matters into his own hands, stealing the Glengarry leads and leaving everyone wondering...
18) Grumpier old men
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Edition
Standard ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Grumpy Old Men become grumpier in this sequel as a newcomer (Sophia Loren) plans to change the town's bait shop into a ristorante.
19) Some like it hot
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
In order to escape retaliation after they witness a gangland murder, two unemployed musicians disguise themselves as women and join an all-girl band headed to Miami. En route, one falls for the band's lovelorn singer, who thinks she loves an aged playboy. Their cover is blown by his love interest and by a mob boss, who refuses to fall for their hoax.
20) Grumpy old men
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Neighborhood curmudgeons' long-running feud becomes an all-out rivalry when an attractive widow moves into the house across the street.