Gladys Cooper
Series
Studio classic volume 8
Description
Until a miracle changes their minds, church and state officials persecute a simple, ingenuous peasant girl who claims to have seen a vision of "a beautiful lady."
3) Mr. Lucky
Series
Description
Spirited comedy of a professional gambler trying to raise a new bankroll by fleecing a wealthy young woman.
Heads: He wins. Tails: You lose. Joe Adams doesn't play the odds. He makes them. Who would think Cupid would turn the odds against him? With roguish charm and dialogue spiked with Cokney rhyming slang. Cary Grant portrays Joe a wartime romantic comedy from the director of Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. Luck is on Joe's side when he didges...
4) Now, voyager
Description
A young woman escapes the smothering influence of her wealthy and very conservative mother through the help of a psychiatrist and an ocean cruise, where she finds love, which helps her to become her own person.
5) My fair lady
Description
In 1910s London, Professor Henry Higgins bets he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a crude flower girl, into a lady of high society through linguistic training. Eliza, seeking a better life despite her Cockney accent, enlists Higgins and Colonel Pickering's help. Along the way, Higgins is impressed by Eliza's father, Alfred P. Doolittle's, honesty and linguistic talents, recommending him to a wealthy American.
Series
Description
"Heavenly bells are ringing, jubilant choirs are singing, and Christmas joy is blanketing the world like freshly fallen snow. But the Yuletide spirit has yet to warm Bishop Henry Brougham's Victorian home. Struggling to raise funds for a new cathedral, the preoccupied young clergyman has neglected his loving wife, Julia, and now only divine intervention can save their marriage! But the powerful and handsome angel sent from above has a mind of his...
Series
Criterion collection volume 487
Description
Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars of the late eighteenth century. Emma Hart is a beautiful dance hall girl who is sent by her latest lover to stay with his uncle Sir William Hamilton, the British ambassador to Naples. Sir William considers Emma a rare piece of art he must possess. Sir William introduces Emma to Naples' elite society and she soon marries him. Later, Horatio Nelson, a famous English Naval office arrives. Soon, a scandalous,...
10) Rebecca
Series
Criterion collection volume 135
Description
A young woman who believes she has found her heart's desire when she marries the dashing aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter. But upon moving to Manderley, her groom's baroque ancestral mansion, she soon learns that his deceased wife's memory haunts not only the home but the temperamental, brooding Maxim as well.