Frank Loesser

This special focuses on a group of men who have fallen in love with their life-size dolls, called "Real Dolls." For these men, their $10,000 lifelike, built-to-order creations have replaced human women. For some people, finding a partner in life can be difficult. For these men, it's almost impossible. Some years ago, a small factory in California began making an alternative partner. Each one is tailored made to suit every taste. There are now 3000 real dolls across the world providing some of those with love and companionship that real women cannot.

Tras la muerte de su madre,Stoney regresa a casa e intenta paliar el dolor de su millonario padre convirtiendo el castillo familiar en un lujoso prostibulo privado . Encontrar a las mujeres adecuadas es complicado ,pero finalmente consiguen varias expertas sexuales.

A behind-the-scenes look at the cast-album recording session of the 1992 Tony-winning Broadway revival of the Frank Loesser musical. Originally broadcast as part of the PBS series "Great Performances" (season 21, episode 4).

Adaptación de un musical de Broadway basado en un cuento de Damon Runyon, gran maestro de la literatura picaresca americana. Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra), organizador de las partidas más selectas de dados de Nueva York, apuesta mil dólares con uno de los jugadores (Marlon Brando) a que no es capaz de enamorar a una joven puritana que pertenece al Ejército de Salvación (Jean Simmons).

Adaptación de un musical de Broadway basado en un cuento de Damon Runyon, gran maestro de la literatura picaresca americana. Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra), organizador de las partidas más selectas de dados de Nueva York, apuesta mil dólares con uno de los jugadores (Marlon Brando) a que no es capaz de enamorar a una joven puritana que pertenece al Ejército de Salvación (Jean Simmons).

Dinamarca, siglo XIX. El zapatero Hans Christian Andersen tiene alborotada a toda la chiquillería del lugar con el relato de sus fantásticas historias. El alcalde, presionado por el maestro, que considera nefasta la influencia de Andersen sobre los niños, lo obliga a abandonar el pueblo. Biografía del célebre escritor danés, autor de cuentos como "El patito feo", "El soldadito de plomo" o "Las zapatillas rojas"

Musical version of the comedy by Brandon Thomas. As part of a simple enough ruse, a Cambridge student poses as his aunt but his scheme goes wrong, first when someone falls for the aunt, and then when the real aunt turns up.

A Broadway director rescues a starlet from mobsters who blame her for a shooting.

A Broadway director rescues a starlet from mobsters who blame her for a shooting.

A Broadway director rescues a starlet from mobsters who blame her for a shooting.

A Broadway director rescues a starlet from mobsters who blame her for a shooting.

Band leader Johnny Draper auditions his band, the Dixie Pixies, at the Eagle Aircraft Co., hoping to be hired to play for the workers in the plant. However, personnel manager E. V. Hartley can only offer them regular jobs, and when Johnny inspires the Dixie Pixies to work in the plant, lead singer and dancer Donna D'Arcy leaves the band for a singing job at the Club Martel in downtown Los Angeles.

Un matón llamado Raven (Cuervo en inglés) es contratado para que cometa un asesinato. Sin embargo, pronto se da cuenta de que su vida está en peligro, ya que alguien pretende tenderle una trampa.

Tom Destry, hijo de un legendario pacificador de la frontera, es un joven pacífico que rechaza todo tipo de violencia, por lo que es objeto de toda clase de burlas cuando recorre a caballo la ciudad de Bottleneck, el feudo personal de Kent. Las burlas aumentan cuando Destry nombra sheriff al borracho Wash Dimsdale. Esta actitud cambia cuando resulta que Destry, a pesar de odiar las armas, es un buen tirador. Mientras tanto, Frenchy, la cantante del saloon y novia de Kent, que se siente ofendida ante la indiferencia que Destry muestra hacia ella, jura poner en ridículo al nuevo sheriff.

Ambientado en Londres, ilustra los problemas profesionales y sentimentales de un actor que pretende triunfar en la capital británica.

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring vocalist Al Shayne. This film features the original song Back Seat Drivers by Loesser & Herscher.

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem. It features the original song Take Me Home to the Mountain by Loesser & Herscher.

Based on the Edgar A. Guest poem of the same name, this is photographic ode to the American South, featuring representative scenery. Mendelsohn's "Spring Song" is the musical theme throughout, and Al Shayne sings an original song based on Guest's poem.

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring vocals by Al Shayne.

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem. Al Shayne sings the Loesser & Hersher song Don't Grow Any Older.

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring the song Down the Lane to Yesterday with a vocal by Al Shayne.

A poetic Gem from Edgar A. Guest. This film features Al Shayne singing A Real True Pal by Frank Loesser and Lou Herscher.

Another entry in the Edgar A. Guest's Poetic Gems Series.