Joan Crawford
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One of Hollywood's greatest stars recalls her fabulous life: at nine, scrubbing floors in a Kansas City school; at twenty, motion picture stardom and marriage to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; in 1945, the Academy Award for her sensational comeback-triumph in Mildred Pierce; and today, a glamorous "double life" as Hollywood star and corporation executive. Richly illustrated with photographs throughout.
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The Bette Davis collection volume 2
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English
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An aging ex-vaudeville child star initiates a psychotic reign of terror over her crippled sister, a former movie-queen of the 1930's.
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Lynn Markham, a recent widow, moves into a beach house where the former owner fell to her death from the balcony. What seemed like an accident turns to suspicion of murder as Lynn finds herself drawn into a torrid affair with a handsome beachcomber who may be harboring a sinister secret.
5) Humoresque
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Glamorous socialite Helen Wright takes what she wants - clothes, alcohol, men - and uses them up and tosses them aside. Then she meets a brilliant young violinist, Paul Boray. But this is one toy she can't break.
6) Grand Hotel
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Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he misses the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya's pearls, but ends up stealing her heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats his lowly bookkeeper, Kringelein, but in the end it is Kringelein who holds all...
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Saloon owner Vienna battles the local townspeople headed by Emma, the local sexually repressed, lynch-happy female rancher out to frame her for a string of robberies. Johnny Logan is a guitar-strumming drifter with a dark past who was once in love with Vienna and has been offered a job in her saloon. Nicholas Ray's epic western is considered one of the most original westerns of all time. The women are far tougher than the men and some saw a bizarre...
8) Daisy Kenyon
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Daisy is involved with a married lawyer, Dan O'Mara, whom she hopes to marry whenever he decides to divorce his wife. She meets a returning veteran, Peter, whom is a decent and caring man. Daisy doesn't love him, but he offers her love and a more hopeful relationship. However, just as she marries him, Dan gets a divorce.
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Studio classic volume 31
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English
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Four typists at a publishing company fight to have their own careers and find true love in the ruthless New York business world.
13) Queen bee
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In a beautiful, Georgia mansion, the home's matriarch, Eva, rules with an iron fist. Whether it's domineering her alcoholic husband, Avery, or preventing Carol from marrying Judson, Eva controls everyone around her. But when a cousin, Jennifer, comes into town and develops a bond with Avery, Eva wants to take control of the situation again, leading to dark choices.
16) Mildred Pierce
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Criterion collection volume 860
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English
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Mildred Pierce is a woman who will do anything to satisfy the demands of her spoiled daughter Veda, including divorce, opening her own business, and possibly murder.
17) Rain
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Sadie Thompson, a prostitute stuck on the island of Pago Pago with a variety of people during a monsoon, discovers the possibility of redemption with a missionary.
18) Rain
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Get swept away to the steamy South Seas in Rain, a sizzling pre-Code drama that'll leave you spellbound. Joan Crawford ignites the screen as Sadie Thompson, a fiery prostitute whose arrival rattles the moral foundations of a sleepy island town. Directed by the visionary Lewis Milestone, Rain is a gripping saga of temptation, sin, and the struggle for salvation.
19) Sudden fear
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A wealthy lady playwright marries a worthless actor who plans to killher.
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A prank phone call leads to a night of pure terror. With her parents away on an overnight trip, Libby amuses herself by joining her friend Kit, in calling up strangers and whispering, 'I saw what you did.' When Libby dials Steve Marak, a psychopath who just murdered his wife, his jealous neighbor listens in on the call, a conversation that ends with the panicky killer determined to silence them all.