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The Women (Keepcase)
Starring: Norma Shearer , Joan Crawford , Rosalind Russell , Mary Boland , and Paulette Goddard
Director: George Cukor
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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Auntie Mame
All About Eve
Mildred Pierce (Keepcase)
A Letter to Three Wives
Dinner at Eight

ASIN: B0008ENICU
Release Date: 2005-06-14

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George Cukor, Hollywood's legendary "woman's director," had his hands full with the all-female cast of this 1939 film adaptation of the Clare Boothe play. The story finds a group of catty, competitive friends destroying reputations at social gatherings. The dialogue sparkles, Joan Crawford's performance as a husband stealer is still a classic, the film looks wonderful in Cukor's hands, and the Technicolor fashion-show scene is a one-of-a-kind Hollywood experience. --Tom Keogh

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Be careful what you say in private. It could become a movie. Some gossip overheard by Clare Boothe Luce in a nightclub powder room inspired her Broadway hit that's wittily adapted for the screen in The Women. George Cukor directs an all-female cast in this catty tale of battling and bonding that paints its claws Jungle Red and shreds the excesses of pampered Park Avenue princesses. Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Joan Fontaine, Mary Boland and Paulette Goddard are among the array of husband snatchers, snitches and lovelorn ladies.

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Marie Antoinette
Starring: Norma Shearer , Tyrone Power , John Barrymore , Robert Morley , and Anita Louise
Director: W.S. Van Dyke , and Herman Hoffman
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Marie Antoinette: A Film by David Grubin
A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
Marie Antoinette: Queen of Versailles
Marie Antoinette
The Heiress (Universal Cinema Classics)

ASIN: B000GRUQKG
Release Date: 2006-10-10

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The lavish, overstuffed house style of MGM in the 1930s gets a fluffy showcase in Marie Antoinette, a preposterous epic about the pampered Queen. One of MGM's longtime queens, Norma Shearer (who had been married to head of production/wonder boy Irving Thalberg until his death in 1936), plays the young Austrian girl imported to marry the man who would become Louis XVI of France. The film covers Marie's girly youth at court, through an affair with suave Tyrone Power (then in his early, dewy prime) and finally to the dark days of the Revolution. Like Sofia Coppola's 2006 version of the Queen's life, this film emphasizes glitz, and leaves the Royals mostly innocent of blame for what happens to the starving peasants. Unlike the Coppola picture, this one takes Marie and diffident husband Louis (Robert Morley, his film debut) through their imprisonment and all the way to the guillotine. The parade of enormous sets and opulent gowns contributes to the general sense of stodginess, even if one might pause to note the rather continental attitude toward Marie's extramarital needs. John Barrymore plays the declining Louis XV, but it's the childlike Morley that steals the show. Shearer's glamorous star turn might leave some viewers puzzled as to her appeal, although the very ordinariness of her personality actually works in concert with Marie's out-of-her-depth character. The project had been a pet of Thalberg's, and MGM went ahead with the film after his death, but it marked the end of Shearer's period of major stardom. The opposite of this film's highbrow literary approach can be found in Josef von Sternberg's The Scarlet Empress, with Marlene Dietrich, a delirious and cinematic treatment of a Queen abroad. (This DVD includes overture and entr'acte music.) --Robert Horton

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Her eyes shine as brightly as the diamonds at her slender throat or as the countless candles that turn the Palace of Versailles into a light-drenched fantasy world. She is Marie Antoinette, Queen of France: beautiful, imperious, headstrong...and doomed. With an opulence exemplifying Hollywood's Golden Era at its most glamorous, the grandeur and revolutionary fervor of 18th-century France sweeps across the screen in this nominee for 4 Academy Awards?.* Elegant Best Actress Oscar? nominee Norma Shearer stars in the decades-spanning title role, Tyrone Power plays her ardent beloved, John Barrymore is crafty Louis XV and debuting Robert Morley portrays timid Louis XVI. From ballroom to boudoir to guillotine, Marie Antoinette is regal romantic adventure. DVD Features:
Other:1938 MGM Shorts: Another Romance of Celluloid Hollywood Goes to Town Vintage Short Another Romance of Celluloid Goes Behind the Scenes on This and Other Studio Productions That Year
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Romeo and Juliet
Starring: John Barrymore , Lita Chevret , Wallis Clark , Anthony Kemble-Cooper , and Katherine de Mille
Director: George Cukor
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Myrna Loy and William Powell Collection (Manhattan Melodrama / Evelyn Prentice / Double Wedding / I Love You Again / Love Crazy)
Esther Williams Collection (Bathing Beauty / Easy to Wed / On an Island with You / Neptune's Daughter / Dangerous When Wet)
Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol. 4 (Act of Violence / Mystery Street / Crime Wave / Decoy / Illegal / The Big Steal / They Live By Night / Side Street / Where Danger Lives / Tension)
Katharine Hepburn Collection (Morning Glory / Undercurrent / Sylvia Scarlett / Without Love / Dragon Seed / The Corn Is Green [1979])

ASIN: B000QGE8J2
Release Date: 2007-08-14

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Shakespeare's classic tale of love and youth ruined by a family feud. The Montagues and the Capulets, two powerful families of Verona, hate each other. Romeo, a Montague, crashes a Capulet party, and there meets Juliet. They fall in love and secretly marry. After killing a nephew of Lady Capulet in a fight, Romeo is banished from Verona. Capulet tries to marry Juliet to Paris, a prince. Juliet seeks the counsel of Friar Laurence, who married her and Romeo. He suggests a daring plan that ends tragically.

Oil On Ice (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge)

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Oil On Ice (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge)
Starring: Peter Coyote , Adeline Peter Raboff , Amory Lovins , Celia Hunter , and Sarah James (VII)
Director: Dale Djerassi , and Bo Boudart
Manufacturer: Lightyear
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NOVA - World in the Balance: The Population Paradox
The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream
An Inconvenient Truth
Who Killed the Electric Car? [Region 99]
Global Warming: The Signs and the Science

ASIN: B0009PVZF0
Release Date: 2005-08-09

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Oil on Ice, narrated by Peter Coyote, is an award-winning documentary that connects the fate of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska and the conflict over drilling for oil there to critical decisions America makes about energy policy and transportation choices. The film examines the battle over one of America's last great wild places, which is currently at the center of a national energy debate. Caught in the balance are the Gwich'in Indians and the migratory wildlife in this fragile ecosystem. Through stunning footage and in-depth interviews, this entertaining film links seemingly unrelated matters such as energy independence, global warming, Native American rights, wildlife and wild lands protection. DVD Features:
Interviews:Bonus Interviews with Rocky Mountain Institute CEO Amory Lovins and Sierra Club CEO Carl Pope.
Other:Oil On Ice Short Film. Grassroots Action Tool kit (with DVD-ROM content and web links.

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The Women (Snap case)
Starring: Norma Shearer , Joan Crawford , Rosalind Russell , Mary Boland , and Paulette Goddard
Director: George Cukor
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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Auntie Mame
All About Eve
Mildred Pierce (Keepcase)
A Letter to Three Wives
Dinner at Eight

ASIN: B000063K2W
Release Date: 2002-07-02

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This scorching comedy finds Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Joan Fontaine and Paulette Goddard fighting with no-holds-barred cattiness for their own (and each other's) husbands and lovers.

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Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
Starring: Norma Shearer , Fredric March , Charles Laughton , Maureen O'Sullivan , and Katharine Alexander
Director: Sidney Franklin
Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
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Strange Interlude
Les Miserables (1935)
Private Lives
A Free Soul
Romeo & Juliet

ASIN: 6302308321
Release Date: 1998-09-01

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The Gay Divorcee
Most Interesting Pre Code Examination Of Marital Infidelity With An Oscar Winning Norma Shearer
How did they get away with this?
Norma Shearer Makes This One Worthwhile
When is the Divorcee coming out on DVD?

Divorcee (1930)
Starring: Norma Shearer , Chester Morris , Conrad Nagel , Robert Montgomery , and Florence Eldridge
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
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A Free Soul
Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood
Strange Interlude
The Women (Keepcase)
Private Lives

ASIN: 6302004446
Release Date: 1994-12-21

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The Gay Divorcee.......2006-01-21

"The Divorcee" is a movie that risks a lot and rewards us with much more. The movie tackles some big issues in a most frank way, at least for 1930. Had the movie been made a few years later, we would have seen a vastly different picture.

Most people have only heard of this movie, few have seen it. Film buffs have only know the movie as "that one Norma Shearer won the Oscar for". But it is a little more than that.

The movie looks at double-standards in society. Jerry (Shearer) and Ted (Chester Morris) are young and in love. They surprise everyone at a pasrty when they announce they are going to be married. This news especially upsets Paul (Conrad Nagel) whom had planned to marry Jerry himself.

Three years later, while celebrating their anniversary Jerry discovers that Ted had an affair, he assures her it was only once, but once is too many. He tries to talk her into understanding that it didn't mean anything, it's just the way men are. Ted then goes out of town on business.

Jerry can't get her mind around Ted's confession, and so with the help of a mutual friend, Don (Robert Montgomery) the two paint the town red. But we then find out Jerry and Don had spent the night together. This is all revealed to Ted when he arrives home.

Now the movie is about how these two people are going to cope with this information. Ted is outraged. How could his wife, whom he thought was respectable, committ such as act? After all, as Ted explained, he's a man, it's okay for him, but for a woman to act as a man does, unthinkable.

This theme was pretty bold for a 1930's movie and as I said surprisingly tackles the issues as frank as possible. Their are however a few faults with the movie. First of all near the end of the movie it starts to lose its nerve. The issue is never really resolved between the two. This can lead one to then interpret the movie as saying absence makes the heart grow fonder. But the underlying dilemma confronting the two is never fully addressed head on. Given that a majority of the movie doesn't take this approach I found the ending disappointing.

Shearer though was no stranger to acting in movie that dealt with controversial issues. "Their Own Desire", made a year ealier, also with Montgomery, had done it, and Shearer's "The Women" would also.

The movie was directed by Robert Z Leonard, a studio director, who received an Academy Award nomination for this picture, had also directed Shearer in a Noel Coward adaptation called "We Were Dancing", with Melvyn Douglas. Leonard also directed "Pride and Prejudice" with Olivier and Greer Garson and a Myrna Loy comedy "Third Finger, Left Hand". So his name has been associated with entertaining films that took interesting views of society and in mild attempts challenged the norm.

"The Divorcee" will probably have the most entertainment value if watch by filmbuffs, though it doesn't have to be that way. The movie is boldly acted, and has some very convinving performances,. It is well-written and manages to get its point across by not being vulgar. It merely makes subtle hints. All of this lead the movie to earn four Oscar nominations for "directing", "picture", "writing" and "actress (the only award it won)". I don't mean to lessen the movie's worth, but it shold been seen as an example of what Hollywood could have been had there been no production code in effect. Try and think how different the entire history of movie might have been. That, if anything, should intrigue you to watch this. *** 1\2 out of *****.

p.s. If you're interested in seeing amovie that deals with the issue of women's role in society played for comedy, track down the Kay Francis comedy "Man Wanted" which deals with women's place in the work force and what would happen if a man had a woman as a boss.

Bottom-line: Well acted, well written early Hollywood melodrama that is way ahead of its time. Shearer and Montogery are quite good. Bold example of what the movies were once capable of.

Most Interesting Pre Code Examination Of Marital Infidelity With An Oscar Winning Norma Shearer.......2006-01-13

These early thirties films labelled as "Pre Code", are always most interesting to watch from a historical perspective as only a few years after this film was made such a topic would never have been able to be presented as it is here. The passage of time of course makes the subject matter of MGM's "The Divorcee", seem tame however back in 1930 this story was considered very adult and almost ahead of its time in its fairly honest examination of the "expected", roles for husbands and wives in the marital situation. Norma Shearer who today is sadly not well known really proved her acting chops in this vehicle and went home with the Best Actress Oscar that year for her troubles. Often labelled quite restrictively as the dignified first lady of MGM resulting from much of her later work in this decade in husband Irving Thalberg's prestige productions; here proves what she was capable of doing on screen when given meaty roles to tackle. Her other effort from this time "A Free Soul", makes a nice companion piece to "The Divorcee", in illustrating the range of roles Shearer was capable of handling when examining her overall career.

How did they get away with this? .......2005-08-29

The Divorcee was made in the 1930s but well before the Hayes censorship code. The movie pushes double entendres and seuxal situations to the limit but does it with astonishing taste and wit. You know what's going on but since the movie assumes you're an adult it doesn't spell it out for you.

The beautiful Norma Shearer plays Jeri, a bold, tough girl who most of the audience immediately identifies with. She falls in love with Ted. Their relationship is wild, passionate and exciting. Jeri continues with her career after the marriage and that's swell with Ted. Then Ted messes up and has a drunken fling with a woman who's not even on Jeri's level. He excuses himself by saying that the fling "doesn't mean a thing." Jeri, is NOT mollified and in a cleverly shot scene she pays Ted back in kind. You see Jeri and Ted's best friend. We see a close up of Jeri's face. She looks burnt out, furious and totally unlike herself. She smiles at her husband's best friend and then a window shade is drawn and the lights go out. Next scene is Jeri looking very pale and tired walking into her front door. You know immediately where she's been and what's she's done. When she tells Ted that she's settled their account it takes Ted a minute to figure out what she means but when he does the expression of horror and disallusionment on his face is done so well.

Jeri and Ted divorce and both fling themselves into affairs in order to forget each other. A montage follows where all you see is Jerri's hand with the hands of various other men with snippets of voiced over racy dialouge. One memorable line is Jeri's response to a French lover, "I dont speak French but I know that's not high blood pressure!"

Finally, Jeri faces facts. She still loves Ted and he still loves her and she decides to get him back. Norma looks gorgeous in this movie and the sets are a love song to old Manhattan.If you've seen Norma in The Women or love 1930s movies do check this one out.

Norma Shearer Makes This One Worthwhile.......2005-04-19

When, oh when, can we see a better quality print of THE DIVORCEE? When will we see its release on DVD? Maybe if Shearer had had costars with more star wattage than Chester Morris and Robert Montgomery it would have been out long ago! However everything else being equal, I wouldn't trade Morris and Montgomery for Gable and Leslie Howard!

Each man is perfect in his part and Chester Morris, if you ask me, is a real find. I sort of remember him in his vintage years, kind of a wsie-cracking Oscar Levant type, but hete he is sexy, rough, rather an animal, i.e., perfect casting opposite Norma Shearer, who always seemed to respond well to "brutes" and of course to give as good as she got. I'm afraid Robert Montgomery just isn't up to her (and Chester's) brand of animal magnetism--not just yet--later on of course Robert Montgomery forged his own signature acting menace, revealing an iron hand behind a velvet glove.

However THE DIVORCEE is primarily a showcase for Shearer, and her many fans, new and old, will revel in the way she picks herself up, dusts herself off, and starts all over again. I can only imagine what a stir her acting must have caused in its day. She's very powerful, and she does it all with facial expressions and the tiniest gestures of her long, lean body and the wonderfully expressive costumes the designers put her in. Watch her as she pulls a bit of lint from her sleeve just as her husband delivers a crushing speech to her. You don't see it in her eyes, you see her hurt in the pincing motions of her thumb and fingers.

When is the Divorcee coming out on DVD?.......2004-12-11

Does anyone know when will this movie come out on DVD? I would like to see all Norma's movies on DVD including the cardboard lover.

Gary Cooper Classics (Fighting Caravans, A Farewell to Arms, Meet John Doe, Stolen Jools)

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Gary Cooper Classics
Great bargain for Gary Cooper's fans!

Gary Cooper Classics (Fighting Caravans, A Farewell to Arms, Meet John Doe, Stolen Jools)
Starring: Wallace Beery , Buster Keaton , Jack Hill (II) , J. Farrell MacDonald , and Edward G. Robinson
Director: William C. McGann , Otto Brower , and David Burton
Manufacturer: Genius Entertainment
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The Gary Cooper Collection (Design for Living / The Lives of a Bengal Lancer / Peter Ibbetson / The General Died at Dawn / Beau Geste)
Gary Cooper - The Signature Collection (Sergeant York / The Fountainhead / Dallas / Springfield Rifle / The Wreck of the Mary Deare)
Carole Lombard - The Glamour Collection (Hands Across the Table/ Love Before Breakfast/ Man of the World/ The Princess Comes Across/ True Confession/ We're Not Dressing)
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The Plainsman

ASIN: B0000VLLCA
Release Date: 2003-11-25

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4 movies on 2 DVD's 1. Fighting Caravans (1931, run time 80 minutes) Also starring Lili Damita A young frontiersman (Cooper) facing a misdemeanor jail term, talks French-born Felice (Damita) into posing as his wife to avoid being arrested. They join a wagon train headed West, and he is sole trail guide as they battle Indians and a villanous gun-runner. Their seesaw relationship provides an interesting love theme. Based on a Zane Grey novel. 2. A Farewell To Arms (1932, run time 83 minutes) Also starring Helen Hayes Based on Ernest Hemingway's novel, this is a World War I love story about paramedic Lt. Henry (Cooper) and nurse Catherine Barkley (Hayes). This poignant, ill-fated romance takes place in Italy where the two fall in love and will stop at nothing to be together. Academy Award Nominations: Best Picture; Best Art Direction. 3. Meet John Doe (1941, run time 135 minutes) Also starring Barbara Stanwyck A suicidal down-and-outer, "John Doe" (Cooper) is manipulated by an ambitious politician and a newspaper writer (Stanwyck). This Depression-era parable illustrates the decency of the common man triumphing over cynicism, big-money influence and power. Academy Award Nomination for Best Original Story. 4. Stolens Jools (1931, run time 20 minutes) Also starring Norma Shearer This humorous story is an investigation of the theft of Norma Shearer's jewelry at a big, star-packed party. Party goers include Joan Crawford, Laurel & Hardy, "Gabby" Hayes, Buster Keaton, Maurice Chevalier, Irene Dunne, the list goes on and on.

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Gary Cooper Classics.......2006-07-10

The movies are their title, classics. The product was as good as I expected. They are old. The sound was a good quality. I recommend them to anyone who wants to expand their collection of quality movies.

Great bargain for Gary Cooper's fans!.......2004-10-06

I'm a big fan of Gary Cooper & overall I thought these movies were very enjoyable. The first movie is "Fighting Caravans" (1931) & features a very young Gary Cooper as a wild frontiersman who talks a young French woman (played by Lili Damita) into posing as his wife in order to avoid a jail term. They join a large wagon train & head west & along the way they fall in love & consider marrying although Cooper isn't ready to "settle down". There's a big Indian attack on the wagon train towards the end (Gee, what a surprise!) that makes it well worth watching. Next, we have the original 1932 classic "A Farewell to Arms", which might be the best film version of Hemingway's novel, although parts of it are slow. Cooper was probably eager to star in that film because of his real-life friendship with Earnest Hemingway. Next, we have an often overlooked piece of "Capricorn", 1941's "Meet John Doe" stars Cooper as a suicidal bum who finally discovers that life is worth living. Even though it was directed by Frank Capra & also stars Barbara Stanwyck, this is not one of Capra's finer moments. The main problem is that it's over 2 hours & the plot is sluggish. In my opinion the real gem on this dvd is the 1931 short film "Stolen Jewels", which has tons of cameos from famous stars like Joan Crawford, Laurel & Hardy, Edward G. Robinson, Buster Keaton, Irene Dunne, Norma Shearer, & of course Gary Cooper. If you're a big Gary Cooper fan & are searching for a real bargain, then look no further!

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Marie Antoinette (1938)
Starring: Norma Shearer , Tyrone Power , John Barrymore , Robert Morley , and Anita Louise
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
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Marie Antoinette: A Film by David Grubin
A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
Marie Antoinette: Queen of Versailles
Marie Antoinette
The Heiress (Universal Cinema Classics)

ASIN: 6301973437
Release Date: 1998-09-01

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Romeo & Juliet
Starring: Norma Shearer , Leslie Howard , John Barrymore , Edna May Oliver , and Basil Rathbone
Director: George Cukor
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Romeo and Juliet
Romeo & Juliet
Marie Antoinette
A Free Soul
Disraeli (1929)

ASIN: 6302308313
Release Date: 1992-12-04

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While it's been said that costars Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer are both too old and too lethargic to portray Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers in this Irving Thalberg production, one can have a good time with this film by simply basking in their star presence and enjoying the breadth of the play's adaptation. The opportunity for pageantry affords some lavish sets--typical of Thalberg and director George Cukor--in this 1936 movie, and the cinematography is sublime. Howard and Shearer are in excellent company with the likes of John Barrymore as Mercutio, Basil Rathbone, Edna May Oliver, Andy Devine, and Reginald Denny. Cukor (Love Among the Ruins, Little Women) brings his usual luster, intelligence, and compassion to characters so familiar in pop culture and the Western canon alike that it is hard to breathe new life into them. Yet that's precisely what he accomplishes with his stellar cast, and he makes each of them look even better because of it. --Tom Keogh

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