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The Lemon Drop Kid (DVD)
Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, Lloyd Nolan, Jane Darwell, Andrea King, …
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Discovery Miles 2 710
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Bob Hope stars in this Christmas comedy as Sidney Melbourne, a race
track con man who offers a friendly 'sure thing' horse tip to the
girlfriend of mobster Moose Moran. When the horse loses and Moose's
original pick wins, Moose gives Sidney until Christmas to pay back
the money he lost or his thug, Sam-the-Surgeon, will 'open' Sidney
after Christmas. To pay back the money he owes Moose, Sidney
enlists some pals to hit the street corners of New York dressed as
Santa Claus accepting donations for a bogus elderly ladies' home.
Things get complicated when gangster, Oxford Charlie (Lloyd Nolan)
tries to move in on Sidney's scam.
Two strong-willed women. One incredible century. Their
extraordinary, true story. MORE THAN TONGUE CAN TELL is the
one-hundred-year saga (1885-1985) of screen beauty and film star
Andrea King and her equally indomitable, cigar-smoking mother Belle
McKee. Imagine, for a moment, what it must have been like growing
up in the 1880s on a farm across the street from Thomas Edison,
experiencing the first burst of electric light illuminating your
childhood home. Belle's father George Hart was an inventor himself,
and as the family's prosperity grew, so did Belle's private
aspirations. She dreamed of a life in the theatre, and against her
parents wishes, she studied in secret, dancing with the legendary
Isadora Duncan in New York. But when Isadora left the country for
France, Belle volunteered as an ambulance driver with the Red Cross
in order to avoid asking her parents for traveling expenses. Belle
found herself on the front lines in World War I, and the experience
changed her forever. She soon had a daughter, Georgette, and in
1919, upon learning of her father's grave illness, Belle returned
to the States with her baby. Now a single mother with few options
available to her, Belle agreed to marry a wealthy banker and settle
down in New York. Raised in Forest Hills and Palm Beach, Georgette
also dreamed of a life in the theatre. She was spotted by a
representative of the Shubert brothers in a boarding school recital
and, at the age of fourteen, made her Broadway debut weeks later.
Georgette came to be known as Andrea King, a name given to her by
movie mogul Jack Warner when she rose to fame at Warner Bros. in
the mid-1940s. Follow Andrea on her turbulent path to stardom in
Hollywood's heyday-and pick up fascinating, personal anecdotes
about Montgomery Clift, Tallulah Bankhead, Thomas Mitchell, Lillian
Gish, Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Peter Lorre, Ida Lupino, Bob Hope,
and Edward G. Robinson, just to name a few. But Andrea's story
delves deeper into private struggles: rape, abortion, child
molestation, alcoholism, domestic violence, disputed judgment, and
missed opportunities-as well as the triumphs of romance and
ingenuity. Throughout their lives, and a century of change and
turmoil unlike any other, these two women possessed a bond that
endured. They loved each other "more than tongue can tell."
Marian lives in a world of spectres. She is devoted to her research
on ghosts in Quebecois literature to the exclusion of nearly
everything else, including her husband. When an after-hours
encounter at a conference sparks an uncomfortable attraction to her
professor, Remy, the ghosts of her research begin to haunt her-all
too literally.As his flirtation with Marian becomes a full-blown
affair, Remy wonders if he's courting his own demise. Not only is
he betraying his fiance, he is also violating university policy,
putting his career at risk. Desperate to create art out of chaos,
he revives his long-held dream of becoming a writer and, in the
process, must confront the tales he tells himself and others.
Spectral Living is a poignant and funny story about the tension
between worlds: between the academic and the artistic, between the
living and the dead, between languages, and between people-even in
their most intimate relationships.
Studies show that black men are more likely to seek medical
attention, follow a healthy diet and take prescribed medications if
there is a woman in their lives. In short, black women are the key
to saving their man?s lives. The first of its kind, this guide is
packed with valuable info, advice and personal stories from
celebrity and non-celebrity women about their men?s health issues.
It's divided into chapters covering key health topics that affect
black men, such as certain cancers, obesity, heart disease,
diabetes, stroke, Alzheimer?s disease, mental health, substance
abuse, HIV/AIDS and violence against young black men. The book
provides strategies for building health partnerships within the
home and community and each chapter covers a specific health topic.
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