Maureen Stapleton

Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay filmed over 100 of the greatest stars ever to work on Broadway or in Hollywood. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print - but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most endangered. They leave only memories that, while more vivid, are more difficult to preserve. In their own words — and not a moment too soon — Broadway: The Golden Age tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre. This is the largest cast of legends ever in one film.

A teen gives her graduation address and reveals her involvement in the disappearance of one her classmates, a boy who had taunted her. The film then moves into flashback to tell the story.

A grandmother tells her young grandchild the moving tale of a lonely girl and an unforgettable magical cat in this animated short narrated by Oscar®, Emmy and Tony award winner Maureen Stapleton. The film is based on a short story written by Dayal Kaur Khalsa and adapted by two-time Governor General's award recipient Tim Wynne-Jones.

Sam y Maggie (Matthew Broderick & Meg Ryan) acaban de ser abandonados por sus respectivas amantes (Kelly Preston & Tcheky Karyo), que se han ido a vivir juntos a un apartamento. Maggie quiere vengarse y Sam desea recuperar a su novia, así que los dos se van a vivir a un edificio abandonado enfrente de la casa de la ex-novia de Sam para poder elaborar un plan de venganza. Pero la hostilidad inicial que hay entre ambos empezará a dar paso al amor.

Jack Lemmon made over sixty films and received numerous awards, including eight Academy Award Nominations and two Oscars. Later in life, his achievement was enriched by new challenges in which he exposed the vulnerability and emotion of the later years as few had dared. He reveled in his ongoing screen partnerships with directors like Billy Wilder and stars like Walter Matthau. Narrated on-camera by Jack Lemmon, this documentary includes interviews with Lemmon's son, the actor Chris Lemmon. Also appearing are such legends as Jack's life-long friend, the writer and director Billy Wilder, writer-director Garson Kanin, drama teacher Uta Hagen, and actor Gregory Peck. Actors Charles Durning, Maureen Stapleton, Betty Garrett, and Kevin Spacey, writer Neil Simon, director Delbert Mann, and other Hollywood luminaries help complete the profile. Clips from some of Lemmon's major films as well as archival footage add to this portrait of one of our most illustrious and productive stars

A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and in St. Louis to success and acclaim, followed by the final difficult years. Includes some of the most celebrated scenes from film adaptations of Williams' work, among them extracts of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951),Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Night of the Iguana, The (1964), and Suddenly, Last Summer (1993) (TV). Contains footage of Williams being interviewed, including conversations with David Frost, 'Edward R. Murrow (I)', and Melvyn Bragg, as well as reminiscences from people who knew and worked with him, among them Edward Albee, Gore Vidal, and his lifelong friend, Lady Maria St. Just. Features readings from Elia Kazan's Notebook by Kim Hunter.

A reclusive aging widower struggling with tax problems has a complete change in his views of life as he has a chance encounter with a young woman who moves in with him briefly.

Elizabeth, Jeremy y Harry tienen una madre adicta al trabajo. A causa de la falta de atención que reciben, en la escuela se meten en muchos problemas. Un día conocen a la señora Cavour, una jardinera misteriosa que les habla de un antiguo hechizo con el que podrían hacer desaparecer a su madre

Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.

Rose White is a modern young career woman in post-World War II New York City who has largely relegated her Jewish heritage to scrapbooks and memories. Born in Poland but fortunate enough to escape the country before the Nazi occupation and the Holocaust wiped out her family, she is stunned to learn her older sister somehow survived the horror and is coming to America. The sisters' reunion is complicated by Lusia's memories of her struggles to survive and the revelation of past family secrets.

Comedia negra. Los excéntricos hijos de la familia Scanlan vuelven a casa cuando se enteran de la muerte de su padre. Pero la sutil formalidad irlandesa con la que han planeado el funeral dará lugar a malentendidos y despertará viejas rivalidades entre los hermanos.

A woman with cancer seeks the assistance of her daughter in fulfilling her last wish - a wish to die with dignity.

A gifted classical pianist, fueled by poverty, Wladiziu Valentino Liberace was already playing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of 17. Through a variety of his highs and lows, chaptered in TV-style format, Liberace's life from his early years through his death are chronicled.

Tras haberse marchado con los alienígenas, los ancianos de la residencia vuelven a la tierra para que sus amigos extraterrestres recuperen otras cápsulas pérdidas en el océano, y que corren peligro por un terremoto.

Ryan Richmond is an eccentric teenager living with his mother, father, sister and brother in the Holiday Inn they own in Sunnyvale, Arizona, the prune capital of the world. Is it any wonder that he wants to go to Saudi Arabaia for college and leave Sunnyvale far, far behind? He spends his days at school with his sex-obsessed best friend Dan Forrester and lusts after Lisa Winston, the sexy lounge singer who his parents have hired to perform at the Holiday Inn. Stuck without a date for his brother's wedding to a senator's daughter, Ryan goes to a computer dating service, which asks him such questions as "Can you breathe foreign substances?" Soon, Ryan is told that he may be an alien stuck on Earth along with thousands of others. Soon, Charles and Edna Pinsky show up and tell him that he may an alien prince meant to lead his brethren home. And that's when things get out of control...

Una prostituta de clase alta mata a un cliente en defensa propia. Para evitar el escándalo, sus padres intentan declararla mentalmente incompetente. No ayuda a las cosas que ella es muy desconfiada de todos, incluido su abogado nombrado por la corte, es muy perturbador durante sus audiencias judiciales.

Mike Shea (Timothy Hutton), un joven que vive en un pueblo de Pennsylvania, sueña con trasladarse a California con su novia Brenda (Mare Winningham), aunque, al final, emprende el viaje solo. Durante el trayecto se detiene para rescatar a una madre y a un niño que están a punto de morir en un río helado.

Serio-comic look at the residents and staff of a Catskill Mountains resort during its final days.

Rachel (Streep) es una famosa escritora que antepone su carrera al amor y a la maternidad. Mark (Nicholson), además de periodista, es un mujeriego empedernido. Ella vive en Nueva York. Él en Washington. Y si todas estas complicaciones no logran que la relación salte por los aires, nada lo hará.

Earth is visited by a race of aliens, who issue an ultimatum: either peace or complete destruction.

Anna es una joven y atractiva violinista que, con su novio Walter, vive provisionalmente en el apartamento de su ex-marido, un famoso director de orquesta. De repente, éste aparece en la casa y la pareja tiene que buscar otra residencia. Walter recurre a su amigo Jack, agente de la propiedad, que le proporciona una auténtica ganga en las afueras de la ciudad.

Un grupo de ancianos que viven en una residencia descubren la fuente de la eterna juventud. El único problema es que el lugar mágico pertenece a un grupo de extraterrestres, y desconocen si sus intenciones son amigables. Un espléndido reparto y acertadas dosis de sentimentalismo hicieron de este drama fantástico un gran éxito de taquilla.

A therapist goes outside his office and into his patients' personal lives to help them. He is treating a man who is hearing sounds but apparently there is nothing wrong with him psychologically. And a woman who despite being in a healthy relationship goes around picking up guys and having sex with them. She decides to seek help and what the doctor learns is that the problem goes back to her childhood and her family.

This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.

Johnny Kelly tiene que abandonar su tranquila existencia y dedicarse al crimen organizado para hacer frente a los gastos que le supone mantener a su madre, siempre enferma y necesitada de costosos tratamientos. Con el nombre de Johnny el Peligroso, empezará a trabajar a las órdenes de Dundee, un capo que lo irá introduciendo en el negocio.

Documentary about early 20th-century photographer Lewis Hine, who helped to expose grim working conditions in American factories and mines, especially the abuse and exploitation of children by their employers. Later, he became the official photographer for the construction of the Empire State Building.

Three generations of women spend an emotional weekend that will change them forever.

A precocious child has a profound effect on the lives of a successful Broadway producer and her husband.

From the elaborate Broadway revival of the 1932 Eva Le Gallienne/Florida Friebus production comes a whimsical retelling of the Lewis Carroll classic.

A documentary incorporating footage of Montgomery Clift’s most memorable films; interviews with family and friends, and rare archival material stretching back to his childhood. What develops is the story of an intense young boy who yearned for stardom, achieved notable success in such classic films as From Here to Eternity and I Confess, only to be ruined by alcohol addiction and his inability to face his own fears and homosexual desires. Montgomery Clift, as this film portrays him, may not have been a happy man but he never compromised his acting talents for Hollywood.

The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers payed up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.

To a family whose children are traumatized by the death of their mother, help comes in a most bizarre way. They receive three pieces, that when joined together, give a recording for an offer for an electric grandmother. They go to a bizarre factory, where they customize their new grandmother, and within a short time, she arrives. The android is equipped with everything needed as a parent and the boys are charmed. The daughter, however, still misses her mother and she bears no welcome for this interloper.

John Reed (1887-1920) es un legendario periodista y revolucionario americano, pionero del socialismo en Estados Unidos. Corresponsal en la revolución mexicana y la 1ª guerra mundial, es famoso por ser testigo directo de la Revolución de Octubre, que plasmó en su libro 'Diez días que estremecieron al mundo'. Convencido por aquellos acontecimientos, luchó por extender el bolchevismo en EEUU, y trabajó para la Komintern en la Rusia soviética. En 'Rojos', Warren Beatty escribe, produce, dirige y protagoniza un drama épico sobre su vida y la de su compañera —también escritora— Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton). Con su romance como excusa, la película es un maravilloso retrato de la América de 1912-19, desde la vida bohemia de los artistas del Greenwich Village de Nueva York, al incipiente sindicalismo revolucionario de la Industrial Workers of the World, el movimiento antibélico o la fundación del comunismo americano, salpicado de un toque documental con entrevistas a testigos de aquella era.

Un chico joven y guapo es un profundo admirador de una actriz ya veterana. Le escribe cartas pero ella no las contesta. El chico se obsesionará de tal manera que querrá acabar con los amigos de la actriz y contra ella misma.

Lester is a homeless shoeshine boy living in a railway station. He's got this funny knack for picking the winning horses' names out of the paper while shining shoes. When word gets around, though, everyone wants a piece of the action.

Two Christmases have passed and widow Kate Thornton has taken over Thornton Industries and is wooed by a courtly financier.

When aging newspaper Editor Frank Miller is fired after decades of service and replaced by a computer, he cannot take this fate quietly. Frank becomes enraged and starts writing letters to his son, Richard, expressing his fury.

Mediados de los años 20. Un párroco católico es acusado del asesinato de una monja, por la cual se ha sentido atraído y que parece haber tenido relaciones con ella.

Un profesor de universidad (George Segal) y una mujer inglesa divorciada (Glenda Jackson) se conocen y se casan durante unas vacaciones en Francia. Pero cuando regresan a casa, comienzan los problemas.

Kermit the Frog throws a glamorous party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub to celebrate the premiere of the Muppets' first feature film, The Muppet Movie. Hosts Dick van Dyke and Rita Moreno interview the wide array of celebrities and Muppets who attend the event. Gary Owens serves as off-camera announcer, and appears on-screen to introduce Miss Piggy.

Eve, una mujer que ha sido abandonada por su marido, se reúne con sus tres hijas para tratar de afrontar la situación. Ella se encuentra en un momento crítico, pero sus hijas también tienen sus propios problemas, algunos de ellos derivados del poco cariño que han recibido de su madre. Las emociones se desbordan cuando el marido se presenta en la casa familiar acompañado de la mujer con la que quiere casarse.

When Adam Thornton learns that he only has a little time left, he decides that he wants to make peace with his family. Only problem is that most of his family are not exactly fond of him because he walked out on his wife and of his stubborn nature and he hasn't spoken to his youngest son after having an argument with him which he was in the wrong but only realize after his son left and has not been heard from since. But he goes to her to help him find him. But when his doctor says that it won't be good for him to travel, she suggests that they invite them all for Christmas. While most of them come, Adam's attempt at reconciliation won't be easy.

The story of conflicts, power plays and secrets in a wealthy Mississippi family.

A middle-aged woman finds herself simply a widow, a grandmother and a person when a friend takes her to the Stardust Ballroom, a dance hall which recreates the music and atmosphere of the 1940s. There she encounters a most unlikely Prince Charming, a middle-aged mailman. With this encounter, life takes on a new meaning for the film's heroine.

Mother Earth and Father Time converse about the choices humans make.

A housewife, increasingly disenchanted with her homemaker role, looks for new meaning in her life and organizes a discussion group, changing the lives of her six closest friends.

A homeless man and woman prepare for and enjoy a special Sunday dinner

The brutes and the belles. The gadflies and the good ol' boys. The taboos and the profound truths. They're all part of a tennessee state of mind -- a realm of places, personalities and ideas. Williams is front and center for this exploration, reading from his works, placing them in the context of his life, and serving as guide in visits to his career-shaping refuge in New Orleans and his later-day writing quarters in Key West. Also, dramatizations by distinguished actors -- including Jessica Tandy, Broadway's original Blanche DuBois, in a recreation of her A Streetcar Named Desire triumph -- give flesh-and-bone immediacy to some of the writer's famed works. In his own words. In his own places. The resilient character and memorable characters of one of our greatest writers reside in Tennessee Williams' South.

A boy and his dog take a wondrous trip under the earth's crust and through the geological eras of time, introducing children to geology in the form of a musical fantasy.

Tres historias diferentes sobre diversa gente que pasa unos días en una habitación concreta de un famoso hotel de Nueva York: una pareja celebrando su 25 aniversario, un productor intentando acostarse con su ex, y unos padres intentando que su hija encerrada en el baño salga y de el “si, quiero”.

Han pasado muchos años desde que Hernie pasó sus vacaciones con sus amigos Oscy y Benji en una isla de Nueva Inglaterra. Todavía recuerda aquel verano, en plena Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), en el que se enamoró de una atractiva mujer mucho mayor que él.

Un temporal de nieve azota Chicago, dificultando el intenso tráfico de su aeropuerto. A pesar de las malas condiciones meteorológicas, el aeropuerto consigue permanecer abierto, pero entre los aviones que despegan causa una gran alarma el que vuela con destino a Roma, porque, entre los pasajeros, hay un polizonte y un hombre con un maletín sospechoso.

Trilogy is an anthology film of three adaptations of Truman Capote short stories: Miriam, Among the Paths to Eden and A Christmas Memory. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France.

Cuando Conrad Birdie, estrella del rock e ídolo juvenil, es llamado a filas, todas las adolescentes del país se revolucionan. Además, Albert (Dick van Dyke), el que escribe las canciones de Conrad, se queda sin trabajo. Él y su novia (Janet Leigh) organizan entonces un concurso nacional gracias al que una afortunada alcanzará el sueño de dar el beso de despedida a Conrad en "El Show de Ed Sullivan".

Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love with Catherine, the niece that they have raised from childhood. Into his house come two brothers, illegal immigrants, Marco and Rodolpho. Catherine falls in love with Rudolpho; and Eddie, tormented but unable to admit even to himself his quasi-incestuous love, reports the illegal immigrants to the authorities.

Adaptación de "La caída de Orfeo", drama de Tennessee Williams. Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier (Marlon Brando) es un músico de Nueva Orleáns que lleva una vida errante y muy irregular que le crea frecuentes problemas con la ley, razón por la cual se ve obligado a cambiar de ciudad continuamente. Durante un viaje, se detiene en Two Rivers, cerca del Mississippi. Allí consigue trabajo en la tienda de Lady Torrance (Anna Magnani), una mujer madura de origen italiano que se convierte en su amante. Al mismo tiempo, tambien se siente atraído por Carol Cutrere (Joanne Woodward), una joven alcohólica que corresponde a sus sentimientos.

During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.

Con ganas de conseguir una posición periodística, Adam White se va a trabajar como columnista de un periódico que da consejos. Su editor, Shrike, se dedica a intimidar a su esposa alcohólica, Florence, por su pasado adultero. Y en asignar a sus empleados trabajos periodísticos para los cuales tienen poca aptitud o interés. Shrike incita a Adam a encontrarse con una de sus corresponsales, Fay Doyle, una mujer llorosa y auto compasiva ...

In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspiration when his agent convinces a stage star to take his next effort. When he returns to Broadway, his girl stays behind and starts seeing a local businessman.