Arthur Laurents
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
"Director, playwright and screenwriter Arthur Laurents--author of Gypsy, West Side Story, Anastasia, The turning point and other plays and films--takes us into his life, and into the dazzling world in which he worked, among the artists, directors, actors and personalities who came of age in the theatre and in Hollywood after the Second World War."--Jacket.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets
5) Gypsy
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Mama Rose lives to see her daughter, June, succeed on Broadway by way of Vaudeville.
6) Anastasia
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c1997
Language
English
Description
Anastasia: A princess of Russia's Romanov family grows up in an orphanage after the assassination of her parents and separation from her grandmother, with only vague memories of her childhood, but she discovers her rightful heritage when she is recruited to pose as the lost princess by con men who want to claim a reward for her recovery
Bartok the Magnificent: When Price Ivan is kidnapped, it is up to Bartok to discover the real hero inside himself...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998], c1961
Language
English
Description
This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets
9) Summertime
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The story of a witty but lonely secretary who takes a vacation in Venice, hoping to fall in love. She does - with a very handsome but very married Italian man.
10) Rope
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Two friends strangle a college classmate and then proceed to invite his family and friends to dinner after they stuff the body inside a trunk to be used for the dining table. One of the guests, their teacher, suspects foul play. Based on the real-life Leopold-Loeb murder, Hitchcock's study of total mise-en-scene construction was shot entirely on a single sound stage
12) Anastasia
Series
Studio classic volume 9
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
An expatriate White Russian general sets in motion a grand hoax after he meets a destitute woman on the banks of the Seine River in Paris. He is amazed at her resemblance to Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas of Russia, rumored to have somehow survived the Bolsheviks' execution of the Romanoff family in 1918. He trains her to impersonate the missing princess but soon begins to feel she may be the real Anastasia. Ultimately, the truth...