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 (Matthew Broderick, de Curtindo a Vida Adoidado) é um romântico do interior, apaixonado pela jovem Lina (Kelly Preston, de Jerry Maguire). Maggie (Meg Ryan, de Sintonia de Amor) é fotógrafa em Nova York e não acredita mais no amor por causa de seu ex-noivo Anton (Tcheky Karyo). Duas vidas completamente opostas que o destino uniu por uma estranha coincidência: ambos foram abandonados pelas pessoas que amavam... E agora, Linda e Anton moram juntos e estão apaixonados! Maggie quer vingança a qualquer custo e só precisa convencer Sam a ajudá-la. Em pouco tempo, eles estão espionando cada detalhe da vida do casal e elaborando um plano divertidamente diabólico para acabar de uma vez por todas com esse romance. Mas as coisas não estão saindo exatamente como eles haviam planejado!

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.

Para Elizabeth, Jeremy e Harry, a vida é uma droga, por uma simples razão: sua mãe é uma chata. Tudo o que eles querem é alguém ou alguma coisa que dê a eles o que sempre quiseram: novas roupas, novos bichinhos, novos amigos, tudo novo. O que as crianças não sabem é que a realização dos seus desejos está mais perto de que imaginam.

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.

A morte repentina de Jack Scanlan provoca uma reviravolta na família, que deseja oferecer ao patriarca um funeral apropriado. O filho mais velho tenta liderar o grupo, mas percebe que a tarefa é muito mais difícil do que parece.

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.

Os internos do asilo que foram para um outro planeta aproveitam uma oportunidade e pegam uma "carona", para poderem rever seus familiares e amigos. Mas quando chegam na Terra começam a questionar se devem continuar no planeta ou retornar a Antares, enquanto seus amigos alienígenas se preocupam em resgatar alguns de seus antepassados.

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...

Claudia Draper é uma prostituta de luxo que, para se defender, mata seu 'cliente' Allen Green. Sua defesa alega insanidade, com o apoio de seus pais, pois acreditam que só assim ela terá chance de escapar da condenação. Entretanto, isto também significa que ela ficará numa instituição para doentes mentais por tempo indeterminado. Então ela entrega seu caso a Aaron Levinsky, um advogado que tem como função não provar que ela é inocente mas sim sua sanidade, pois assim poderá ser julgada em tribunal e então tentar provar sua inocência. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)

Um drama romântico, às vezes engraçado, sobre duas almas que consumam seu casamento literalmente no "Paraíso". Mike Shea, em sua primeira vida, morre como um jovem realizando um resgate heróico. Pouco depois de chegar ao "Céu", ele conhece uma nova alma, Annie Packert, que nunca viveu na Terra antes. O drama gira em torno de sua separação logo após o casamento e a questão candente é se eles se reunirão na Terra antes que o tempo acabe ou se eles estão destinados a uma eterna busca da alma.

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

Ela é uma escritora que abandona sua carreira pelo amor à sua família. Ele é um colunista mulherengo que não consegue deixar seu passado de lado. E se essa combinação não um exemplo da difícil arte de amar, nada mais é!

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

Após ser despejado de seu apartamento em Manhattan, um jovem casal compra a casa dos sonhos, apenas para descobrir que seu sonho transformou-se no pior dos pesadelos. Richard Benjamin dirige este divertido filme em que o desafortunado casal luta para manter-se unido enquanto a casa cai e a conta do banco afunda.

Extra-terrestres vem a Terra com a missão de recuperar casulos com seres de outro planeta sendo que, enquanto os casulos vão sendo recuperados, eles são colocados em uma piscina, energizada pelos alienígenas. Mas os extraterrenos ignoram o fato desta piscina ser utilizada por três idosos moradores de um asilo, que logo passam a ter uma disposição fantástica. Porém, quando descobrem a origem da sua juventude, um dilema surge na vida deles.

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.

Nos anos 1930, um rapaz honesto se torna um gangster para conseguir o dinheiro para salvar a vida de sua mãe, que está doente. Mas o crime organizado não será o mesmo com suas trapalhadas.

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.

Um pouco antes da Primeira Guerra Mundial John Reed (Warren Beatty), um jornalista americano, conhece Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton), uma mulher casada, que larga o marido para ficar com Reed e se torna uma importante feminista. Eles se envolvem em disputas políticas e trabalhistas nos Estados Unidos, e vão para a Rússia a tempo de participarem da Revolução de outubro de 1917, quando os comunistas assumiram o poder. Este acontecimento inspira o casal, que volta aos Estados Unidos esperando liderar uma revolução semelhante.

A record store clerk is an obsessed fan of an actress of stage and screen. However, when faced with rejection, the fan strikes out in increasingly violent ways.

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.

Dick Van Dyke stars as a priest accused of murdering a nun. Directed by Stanley Kramer, this 1979 drama also features Kathleen Quinlan, Maureen Stapleton, Ray Bolger, Beau Bridges and Tammy Grimes.

While visiting Switzerland, an American college professor, Adam, keeps running into a divorced British secretary, Patricia, wherever they go. First their cars collide. Then they smash into one another on a ski slope, each breaking a leg. In between numerous quarrels, the two develop lust and love. They hastily marry, but the disagreements continue. Patricia decides to leave, so Adam decides to fake a suicide. They lose and find each other, again and again.

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.

A aparente rotina de tranquilidade de uma família burguesa de Manhattan é abalada quando o pai decide abandonar a casa para viver com outra mulher.

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.

Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention to spruce up their failing marriage. In the second, brash film producer Jesse Kiplinger tries to get his former one-time flame Muriel to see him for what he stands for. In the third, Roy Hubley and his wife Norma try and try to get their uncertain-of-herself daughter out of the bathroom before her approaching wedding.

Aos quinze anos de idade, Hermie (Gary Grimes) vai passar as férias na praia. Durante esta viagem, ele procura respostas para suas dúvidas sobre a vida, a guerra, o amor e o sexo. Com a cabeça repleta de interrogações e sonhos, Hermie conhece uma mulher mais velha (Jennifer ONeal) e fica apaixonado. Começa assim, uma intensa relação onde Hermie busca aprofundar seu conhecimento sobre o mundo. E ela, por sua vez, busca no jovem adolescente o amor ausente de seu marido que partiu para a Guerra. Dentro de uma atmosfera romântica e sensível, Houve uma Vez um Verão se transforma numa apaixonante história de amor, onde desejos, sonhos e descobertas se misturam em um verão mágico e inesquecível.

Durante uma forte nevasca que ameaça fechar o funcionamento de um aeroporto, Mel Bakersfeld (Burt Lancaster), o gerente encarregado, deve se virar para lidar com uma ameaça de um psicopata em explodir um avião.

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.

Muitas gargalhadas e grandes canções tornaram este filme, baseado em um show de sucesso da Broadway, num dos inesquecíveis musicais de todos os tempos. Quando o astro do rock e paixão das adolescentes Conrad Birdie é recrutado, as garotas do país vão à loucura e o compositor de Conrad, Albert (Dick Van Dyke), fica desempregado. Assim, Albert e sua namorada (Janet Leigh) organizam um concurso nacional no qual uma felizarda ganhará um beijo de adeus de Conrad no programa de TV de Ed Sullivan. Kim McAfee (Ann-Margret) é a ganhadora e toda a comitiva de Conrad se dirige até a pequena cidade—para desgosto do sempre irritado pai da garota (Paul Lynde) e do ciumento namorado (o cantor Bobby Rydell) O resultado é o caos e uma série hilariante de complicações românticas.

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.

Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier, um vagabundo de origens obscuras propenso a problemas, chega numa pequena cidade do Mississippi e consegue um emprego numa loja administrada por Lady Torrence cujo marido, Jabe M. Torrance, está morrendo de câncer. Apesar de estar em busca de uma vida simples e honesta, se vê envolvido com mulheres cheias de problemas. Val é perseguido por Carol Cutere, a enigmática vadia local de boa família.

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

Burdened by a family secret, Adam White lands a job as a newspaper advice columnist. Little does he realize that it's all part of a nasty desire by cynical editor William Shrike to crush the souls of his underlings. Adam feels his readers' pain, and eventually, he takes an assignment to meet with Faye Doyle, who is exasperated by her crippled husband. When Faye tries to seduce Adam, he must choose between his job and his girl.

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.