Katharine Hepburn
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The scene is Victorian London, where wealthy widow Hepburn is being sued for breach of promise by her much-younger ex-fiance. Olivier is the highly respected barrister engaged to defend Hepburn in court. The usually reserved Olivier relishes the opportunity to see Hepburn, who 40 years earlier had been his lover. He is driven to hilarious distraction by Hepburn's adamant insistence that she has never seen him before in her life.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The timeless tale of two mismatched strangers joining forces in a common cause, and finding love along the way. The story chronicles the burgeoning romance between river rat Charlie Allnut and missionary Rose Sayer, as they reluctantly join forces to torpedo a German gunboat in war torn East Africa.
8) Summertime
Series
Criterion collection volume 22
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A lonely secretary travels to Venice on a vacation with the secret hope of falling in love.
10) Little women
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This tale centers on the March household: mother "Marmee" and her four daughters; Meg, Amy, Beth and Jo, and chronicles this New England family's joys and tribulations during the Civil War. The girls are committed to "showing father proud," father being a minister gone off to meet the spiritual needs of Yankee soldiers at war. Buoyed by their mother, the girls learn the meaning of giving and sacrifice with a jollity that may be off-putting to jaded...
11) Without love
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Pat Jamieson is a scientist working on a high-altitude oxygen mask for World War II fighter pilots. He has nowhere to conduct his research until he meets Jamie Rowan, a woman with a large empty country house. She has no hopes of marrying for love but Jamie wants to help the war effort and she likes Pat, so to satisfy the proprieties they agree on a business arrangement: a marriage of convenience and partnership. They happily work on oxygen mixes instead...
Series
Criterion collection volume 901
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"With this furiously witty comedy of manners, Katharine Hepburn revitalized her career and cemented her status as the era's most iconic leading lady--thanks in great part to her own shrewd orchestrations. While starring in the Philip Barry stage play The Philadelphia Story, Hepburn acquired the screen rights, handpicking her friend George Cukor to direct. The intoxicating screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart pits the formidable Philadelphia socialite...
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It happened on night: When her father threatens to annul her marriage to a fortune-hunting playboy, spoiled heiress Ellie Andrews hops a cross-country bus to New York, where she plans to live happily ever after with her handsome new hubby. Romantic complications soon arise, however, when she's befriended by fellow passenger Peter Warne, a brash and breezy reporter who offers his help in exchange for her exclusive story.
Morning glory: A New England...
14) Love affair
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
They're engaged, but not to each other. So Mike Gambril and Terry McKay agree to put their sudden love to a test. They'll break off all contact, then reunite in three months atop the Empire State Building if their love is still strong. But fate will test their love more than they themselves ever could.
15) Bringing up Baby
Series
Criterion collection volume 1085
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made--a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar investment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) as the manic misadventures pile up--a missing dinosaur bone,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Crusading newspaper publisher Matt Drayton's liberal principles are put to the test when his daughter, Joey, announces her engagement to John Prentice, an internationally renowned African-American physician. While Matt's wife, Christina, readily accepts Joey's decision, Matt intends to withhold his consent, forgetting that when it comes to matters of the heart, true love is colorblind.