Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Icons of screwball comedy. Volume two [videorecording].

Publisher, Date:

Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2009]

Description:

2 videodiscs (ca. 374 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Disc 1: Theodora goes wild: A small-time author whose racy bestsellers, written under a pseudonym, bring her notoriety when a New Yorker discovers her secret. Together again: The mayor's widow falls for a sculptor as he works on a statue of her late husband.

Disc 2: The doctor takes a wife: A feminist writer forced to pretend she's married to a man whom she loathes. A night to remember: A woman and her mystery writer husband take an apartment in Greenwich Village and almost immediately find themselves in the middle of a genuine murder case.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

Women authors -- Drama.

Anonyms and pseudonyms -- Drama.

Widows -- United States -- Drama.

Sculptors -- United States -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Feminists -- United States -- Drama.

Marriage -- United States -- Drama.

Married people -- United States -- Drama.

Murder -- Investigation -- United States -- Drama.

Screwball comedy films.

Romantic comedy films.

Comedy films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Short films.

Animated films.

Other Author:

Dunne, Irene, 1898-1990.

Douglas, Melvyn.

Boyer, Charles, 1899-1978.

Coburn, Charles.

Freeman, Mona.

Courtland, Jerome, 1926-2012

Patterson, Elizabeth, 1875-1966.

Dingle, Charles, 1887-1956.

Young, Loretta, 1913-2000.

Milland, Ray.

Gardiner, Reginald, 1903-1980.

Patrick, Gail, 1911-1980.

Gwenn, Edmund, 1875-1959.

Aherne, Brian. 1902-1986

McCarthy, Mary.

Buchman, Sidney, 1902-1975.

Boleslavsky, Richard, 1889-1937.

Van Upp, Virginia.

Russell, Stanley.

Biberman, H. J. (Herbert J.)

Herbert, F. Hugh (Frederick Hugh), 1897-1958.

Vidor, Charles, 1900-1959.

Perlberg, William, 1899-1969.

Leslie, Aleen.

Seaton, George, 1911-1979.

Englund, Ken.

Hall, Alexander, 1894-1968.

Bischoff, Samuel, 1890-1975.

Roos, Kelley.

Flournoy, Richard F., 1900-

Henley, Jack, 1896-1958.

Wallace, Richard, 1894-1951.

Columbia Pictures.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

Other Title:

At head of screen titles : Columbia Pictures presents.

Mad hatter.

Notes:

Title from container.

Theodora goes wild is from an original story by Mary McCarthy.

Videorecordings of films originally released 1936-1944.

Special features: A color rhapsody cartoon: Mad hatter; original theatrical trailers.

Theodora goes wild cast: Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas.

Together again cast: Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Charles Coburn, Mona Freeman, Jerome Courtland, Elizabeth Patterson, Charles Dingle.

The doctor takes a wife cast: Loretta Young, Ray Milland, Reginald Gardiner, Gail Patrick, Edmund Gwenn.

A night to remember: Loretta Young, Brian Aherne.

DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1); Dolby Digital.

These DVD discs are copy protected.

Closed-captioned.

Contents:

Theodora goes wild / [presented by] Columbia Pictures ; screenplay by Sidney Buchman ; directed by Richard Boleslawski -- Together again / [presented by] Columbia Pictures ; produced by Virginia Van Upp ; story by Stanley Russell and Herbert Biberman ; screenplay by Virginia Van Upp and F. Hugh Herbert ; directed by Charles Vidor.

The doctor takes a wife / [presented by] Columbia Pictures ; produced by William Perlberg ; story by Aleen Leslie ; screenplay by George Seaton and Ken Englund ; directed by Alexander Hall -- A night to remember / [presented by] Columbia Pictures ; produced by Samuel Bischoff ; story by Kelley Roos ; screenplay by Richard Flournoy & Jack Henley ; directed by Richard Wallace.

ISBN:

1435959485

9781435959484

Publisher Number:

29957

Other Number:

428979536

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

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