Melba Moore

Darrin Hill es un convincente pero desafortunado ejecutivo publicitario de Nueva York que regresa a su pueblo natal en Georgia para recibir la herencia que su tía le ha dejado. Pero antes de que Darrin pueda cobrarla, debe cumplir su ultima voluntad: crear un coro allí y ganar la competición anual "Explosión de Gospel". Darrin pronto descubre que su pueblo esta lleno de personajes muy peculiares pero con poco talento. Entonces conoce a Lilly, una preciosa cantante de jazz con una voz prodigiosa. Darrin ve en Lilly la respuesta a sus oraciones... si logra convencerla de sus buenas intenciones y conseguir que cante.

The program on this DVD is basically a retrospective produced in the early 1990s for public television that was originally called «A Bing Crosby Christmas: Just Like the Ones You Used to Know» that was narrated by Gene Kelly and hosted by Bing's widow, Kathryn Crosby. The program itself features clips from fifteen of Bing's classic television specials, concentrating on the period from the early 1960s onwards when he included Kathryn and their three children in the programs.

Todos los perros van al cielo... o al menos hasta ahora. A las puertas del cielo es donde se encuentra Charlie, un pastor alemán granuja y estafador, asesinado por su antiguo socio, el malvado Carafea, para hacerse con el control del negocio de apuestas ilegales más importante de Nueva Orleans. Con la inestimable ayuda de su fiel amigo Richie y de María, una niña huérfana que puede hablar con los animales, Charlie tendrá una oportunidad para demostrar que merece su entrada en el cielo.

A young black man is arrested for a crime. Now the police and the D.A. are convinced that he is guilty, but his mother doesn't believe this and sets out to prove his innocence.

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.

At the beginning of the Civil War, Union gunboats sailed into Port Royal Sound, on the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia. White plantation owners fled, and the 10,000 blacks who lived there, almost all of whom were slaves, were freed in the first test of President Abraham Lincoln's dream of emancipation. Charlotte Forten, a 21-year-old educated black woman, helped the freed slaves to begin to build a new society. That experience forms the plot of this drama, based on Charlotte Forten's journals, which was telecast on "American Playhouse."

Adolescent werewolf Walt Cribbens finds himself transforming into a wolf-boy form for two minutes at a time. He has no idea why he is a werewolf, so he decides to seek answers with the help of his best friend Cindy, who witnessed his very first transformation. This quest is complicated by a series of local robberies that throw suspicion on Walt.

Based on Davis' 1961 play Purlie Victorious (which was later translated into the 1963 film Gone Are the Days! and which included all of the original Broadway cast, including Ruby Dee, Alan Alda, Beah Richards, and Godfrey Cambridge), Purlie is a musical with a book by Ossie Davis, Philip Rose, and Peter Udell, lyrics by Udell, and music by Gary Geld. It won two Tony Awards and was also nominated for Best Musical. This 1981 television adaptation is directed by Rudi Goldman and stars Broadway cast members Guillaume, Moore, Hemsley, and Hopkins, with Brandon Maggart as Cotchipee, Clarice Taylor as Idilla, and Don Scardino as Charlie. The production won a CableACE Award.

A carnival drifter marries into an aristocratic family and unwillingly takes on a ruthless sheriff who fancies himself a political kingmaker in this pilot film to the later series.

The Beatrice Arthur Special was a prime time U.S. television special broadcast on CBS on January 19, 1980. The production centered around Bea Arthur, who was joined by guest stars Rock Hudson, Melba Moore and ventriloquist Wayland Flowers with his puppet Madame in a series of musical numbers and comedy sketches.

Claude Hooper Bukowsky es un campesino que llega a Nueva York para hacer la instrucción militar antes de ir a luchar en Vietnam. En la ciudad descubre un mundo nuevo: miles de jóvenes se oponen a la guerra y defienden el amor libre. Pronto será admitido en un grupo hippie. Adaptación del famoso musical de Broadway de 1968.

Developed from Anne Grant's book, Our North American Foremothers, this film recreates historical moments and women who fought for equality and freedom over the span of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

A black South African minister searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shantytowns of Johannesburg for his son.

After a young man graduates from a prestigious college, he rebels by preferring a carefree existence rather than the life of fighting the rungs within the treacherous American corporate ladder. For his means of survival he becomes a New York cab driver.

Van Dyke interpreta a Fred un empleado en un banco que está a punto de divorciarse de su mujer, Rachel, y casarse de nuevo con su compañera de oficina, Pamela. Sin embargo, durante un picnic en el Central Park, Fred sufre la picadura de una abeja en la barbilla y a partir de ese momento una gran barba comienza a salirle, lo que traerá complicadas consecuencias.