Self (archive footage)
Explorando a vida e a carreira da atriz americana Natalie Wood através da perspectiva única de sua filha Natasha Gregson Wagner e outras pessoas que a conheciam.
Self (archive footage)
Everyone has seen a Trumbull sequence in Stanley Kubrick's "2001 A Space Odyssey", Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" or Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". Recognized and respected SFX maestro, he has also directed two full-length films which left their mark on sci-fi cinema: "Silent Running" and "Brainstorm". Today, at over 70, Trumbull-the-pioneer continues his quest for innovation and still dreams of a cinema which places spectators into the film. "Trumbull Land" is an immersive portrait of Douglas Trumbull in his studios and a diving headfirst in his cinema.
Maria (archive footage)
A história do compositor Howard Ashman, que escreveu as letras de 'A Pequena Loja dos Horrores', 'A Pequena Sereia', 'Aladdin' e 'A Bela e a Fera' antes de morrer de AIDS no auge da crise em 1991.
Self (archive footage)
In the 1950s, Tab Hunter was number one at the box office and number one on the music charts and was Hollywood’s most sought-after young star. Natalie Wood, Debbie Reynolds and Sophia Loren were just a few of the actresses he was romantically linked to. He was America’s Boy Next Door and nothing, it seemed, could damage Tab Hunter’s career. Nothing, that is, except for the fact that Tab Hunter was secretly gay. Now, the secret is out.
Self
Actresses' hairstyle in movies always carries a strong aesthetic statement associated with erotic, social, and historical meanings. In a bold and unexpected way, the film revisits this ultimate symbol of femininity in international cinema.
Self (archive footage)
Vanity Fair Special Correspondent Dominick Dunne has become known the world over for his vociferous championing of the rights of the victim in high-profile murder cases. His powerful commentaries have made compelling reading in Vanity Fair for a quarter of a century. Now, aged 82, Dunne is covering his last murder trial for Vanity Fair -- the trial of music producer Phil Spector -- and reflects upon his past as a decorated WWII Veteran, his rise and spectacular collapse as a Hollywood producer, and his rebirth as the writer we know today. Dunne's mind offers a fascinating insight into the American psyche and its obsession with fame.
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Welcome behind the closed doors of a Hollywood that only a select few will ever get to see -- a Hollywood of tragic lives and tragic deaths. Some of the worlds brightest stars are hiding deep, dark secrets that - once revealed show a life of unhappiness, heartbreak and torment that has been so carefully hidden behind the glamour and glitter of the big screen. See the true lives behind some of Hollywoods most iconic stars and learn why, for some, it was as if the act of dying itself was a final performance.
Self (archive footage)
Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.
Karen Brace
Dois brilhantes cientistas inventam um dispositivo capaz de gravar e reproduzir experiências sensoriais e acabam obtendo resultados devastadores quando um deles registra sua própria morte.
Self (archive footage)
A documentary about child actors in Hollywood, exploring their history from the early days of film.
Herself
Uma moça liberal, recém-chegada a Nova York, gera uma disputa amorosa entre dois rapazes, que terminam em um relacionamento a três.
Eva Ryker / Claire Ryker
Durante trinta anos Eva Ryker tem lutado contra um inimigo cruel e inteligente. O inimigo é sua própria mente e é a chave para um assassinato e milhões. Uma jovem passou sua vida atormentada pela morte de sua mãe, que estava em um navio torpedeado durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Quando seu pai contrata um investigador para analisar as circunstâncias da morte da mãe há 30 anos, desencadeia uma nova onda de turbulência emocional para a jovem.
Mari Thompson
Os amigos de Jeff e Mari estão todos se divorciando. Sabendo disso, eles passam a questionar o próprio relacionamento. Jeff começa um caso com outra mulher e Mari decide também ter outras experiências.
Tatiana Donskaya
s EUA devem unir forças com a URSS para destruir um gigantesco asteroide em direção à Terra.
Movie Star
In this pilot film, a friend of Jonathan Hart's is killed in a motor accident just after he has left a health farm, apparently committing suicide. There was no warning of him being troubled so the Harts go undercover to find out what happened at the farm.
Cassie Barrett
Drama depicting the problems of a suburban housewife suffering from fits of depression and alcoholism, and her stay in a psychiatric center after a feeble suicide attempt.
Margaret
The story of conflicts, power plays and secrets in a wealthy Mississippi family.
Ellen Prendergast
A detective is hired to locate a girl adopted 30 years earlier whose birth father wants to bequeath her his fortune.
Herself
Stacy Keach narrates this documentary that chronicles the abbreviated life and career of iconic brooding bad boy James Dean, from his obscure early days working in television to his rise to stardom in films such as Rebel Without a Cause. Clips from Dean's movies are intermingled with candid interviews with the star's friends and Hollywood colleagues, including Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dennis Hopper.
Self
A portrait of legendary filmmaker Nicholas Ray while he is working as a film professor at a college in upstate New York.
Self
Peter Lawford hosts this documentary taking a look at the life and films of James Dean.
Courtney Patterson
A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer who becomes her first love.
Natalie Wood
Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.
Carol Sanders
Bob and Carol Sanders are best friends with Ted and Alice Henderson. After attending a weekend self-help/ self-discovery getaway, Bob and Carol feel newly enlightened, and want their friends to feel the same way.
Penelope
When James met Penelope at a club, it took all of three weeks before they were married. But after the marriage, other women became attracted to James and he kept getting promoted, which took him away from Penelope. So Penelope puts on a disguise and robs her husband's bank. Her psychiatrist, Greg, believes that this condition is caused by James being over worked and under romantic with Penelope. She also tells Greg that she robs the business associates of James. But Greg is in love with Penelope - in fact everyone likes her. The problem is when she confesses to her crimes, no one believes her.
Alva Starr
A railroad official, Owen Legate comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down much of the town's railway (town's main income). Owen unexpectedly finds love with Dodson's flirt and main attraction, Alva Starr. Alva and Owen then try to escape Alva's mother's (Hazel) clutches and the town's revenge.
Daisy Clover
A girl on the road to stardom fights the dehumanizing effects of Hollywood life.
Maggie Dubois
O audacioso profissional Professor Fate e o herói branco Great Leslie convencem os fabricantes de automóveis do início do século de que uma corrida de Nova York a Paris (pelo oeste por todo os EUA, estreito de Bering. Rússia, Alemanha e França) ajudará a promover as vendas de automóveis. O arquirrival de Leslie, o professor Fate, amarfanhado e vestido de preto, prometeu chegar antes de Leslie na linha de chegada em um carro da própria invenção. Vão percorrer vários quilômetros, encarar muitas desavenças e enfrentar um imenso iceberg na corrida mais divertida de todos os tempos.
Helen Gurley Brown
Bob Weston é o top repórter de uma revista tabloide, desprezível mas altamente rentável, que deve seu sucesso a histórias destacando sexo. Helen Gurley Brown é uma jovem psicóloga brilhante e bonita de 23 anos, que é a autora do best-seller "Sex and the Single Girl". Weston percebe que Brown não irá lhe dar uma entrevista, porque ela já foi objeto de um dos seus desprezíveis artigos sensacionalistas. Então ele se disfarça como seu amigo e vizinho Frank Broderick, um fabricante de meias que é totalmente dominado por uma esposa ciumenta. Depois de várias sessões de terapia como paciente da atrativa Dr. Brown, surgem complicações quando o jornalista mulherengo começa a se apaixonar pela linda psicóloga.
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NBC's pioneering documentary series, produced by the David L. Wolper Production Company, in association with United Artists Television. Each 30-minute show concentrated on a Hollywood genre, film or legendary star. This series ran from September 30, 1963 until May 18, 1964, and many of its individual episodes were released into the home gauge market in shortened form. Certain episodes would focus on films being made at the time, notably Preminger's The Cardinal and Huston's Night of the Iguana.
Angie Rossini
Angie Rossini é uma jovem e inocente (Católica Italiana) vendedora da Macy, que descobre que está grávida de Rocky, um músico. Angie encontra Rocky (que em um primeiro momento não se lembra dela) para dizer-lhe que está grávida e precisa de um médico para fazer um aborto. Ele acha um médico e eles trabalham juntos para levantar o dinheiro. Será que esses dois estranhos encontrarão o amor um no outro antes que seja tarde demais?
Louise 'Gypsy Rose Lee' Hovick
Mama Rose lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less obviously talented, daughter Louise. However, having her headlining as a stripper at Minsky's Burlesque is not what she initially has in mind.
Maria
No lado oeste de Nova York, à sombra dos arranha-céus, ficam os guetos de imigrantes e classes menos favorecidas. Duas gangues, os Sharks, de porto-riquenhos, e os Jets, de brancos de origem anglo-saxônica, disputam a área, seguindo um código próprio de guerra e honra. Tony (Richard Beymer), antigo líder dos Jets, se apaixona por Maria (Natalie Wood), irmã do líder dos Sharks, e tem seu amor correspondido. A paixão dos dois fere princípios em ambos os lados, acirrando ainda mais a disputa.
Wilma Dean 'Deanie' Loomis
O amor de uma garota frágil do Kansas por um jovem bonito da família mais poderosa da cidade a leva a um coração partido e à loucura.
É 1928 no sudeste do Kansas, rico em petróleo. Os alunos do ensino médio Bud Stamper e Deanie Loomis estão apaixonados um pelo outro. Bud, o popular capitão de futebol, e Deanie, a alma sensível, são 'bons' garotos que só chegaram a se beijar. Eles esperam se casar um dia. Mas ambos enfrentam pressões dentro do relacionamento, Bud que tem o desejo de ir mais longe, apesar de saber em seu coração que, se eles fizerem isso, Deanie acabará ficando com uma reputação igual de sua própria irmã, Ginny Stamper, conhecida como a garota solitária e imoral. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Sarah "Salome" Davis
An ambitious farm girl rushes into marriage with a rich man, almost destroying four lives in the process.
Lory Austen
Wealthy hotshot Cash McCall makes his money by purchasing unsuccessful businesses, whipping them into shape and then selling them for a huge profit. When Cash comes across Austen Plastics, a small manufacturing corporation on its last legs, he realizes it might be a gamble to buy the company. But when Cash finds out that the company's owner is the father of his old flame, Lory, he buys the business just to get a second chance at romance.
Marjorie Morgenstern
While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is an upper-middle-class New York Jew, but has fallen away from his roots, and Marjorie's parents object among other things to his lack of a suitable profession. Noel himself warns Marjorie repeatedly that she's much too naive and conventional for him, but they nonetheless fall in love.
Monique Blair
Competição, amor e guerra. Os aliados desembarcaram na França, se instalaram em uma cidade costeira, onde o tenente Sam Loggins, um cara sério do lado oeste de Manhattan, se apaixona por Monique Blair, uma americana criada na França. O Sargento Britt Harris, um playboy de Jersey, também acha Monique atraente. Ela escolhe um para amar e outro para fazer amizade depois de revelar a história de seus pais e por que ela vive na França. Os homens dizem que não faz diferença. Um casamento é anunciado, e os soldados enfrentam uma perigosa missão atrás das linhas inimigas. Mas será que todo mundo está sendo sincero?
Lois Brennan
Sgt. Chuch Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even more reason to, Jim is dating his daughter, Lois.
Susan Daniels
A young man is drafted and goes through the rigors of basic training, ultimately discovering the experience is also character-building. Director David Butler's 1956 film stars '50s teen favorites Tab Hunter and Natalie Wood, with supporting roles played by Jim Backus, Jessie Royce Landis, Murray Hamilton, Henry Jones, James Garner, Alan King, Ernestine Wade, David Janssen and Raymond Bailey.
Herself
Star studded charity New York premiere of the film Giant
Maria-Christina Colton
When Trace Jordan's brother is murdered by members of the land-grabbing Sutton family, he vows to report this injustice to the nearest Army fort.
Elizabeth
A police captain's emotions get in the way when his daughter is kidnapped.
Deborah "Debbie" Edwards (older)
O veterano da Guerra Civil Ethan Edwards chega ao Texas em 1868 e encontra o seu irmão e a família dele. No dia seguinte, Comanches invadem o rancho, matam o seu irmão e Martha, a esposa dele, e raptam as duas filhas do casal. Ethan parte então em uma busca vingativa junto com o companheiro Martin, um mestiço que logo percebe que Ethan está obcecado por matar os índios. Ao encontrarem o corpo da mais velha, saem em busca da caçula, por quem procuram mais 5 anos no deserto.
Judy
Em uma das performances que mais influenciaram a história do cinema, James Dean interpreta um jovem recém-chegado a uma cidade e cuja solidão, frustação e fúria e que espelharia os adolescentes do pós-guerra — e ainda reverberaria pelos 50 anos seguintes...
Seely Dowder
The "one desire" of ex-gambler Clint Saunders and bar woman Tacey Cromwell is to escape their shady former lives and settle down to respectability. With Clint's younger brother and an orphaned girl in tow, the couple moves to a Colorado mining town where their love is tested by Judith Watrous, daughter of the town banker, who has her sights on Clint.
Helena as a Girl
A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels to Jerusalem and eventually to Rome to complete the task. Meanwhile, a nefarious interloper is trying to convince the crowds that he is the new Messiah by using nothing more than cheap parlor tricks.
Gretchen
Uma ex rainha do cinema encontra romance, mas continua a desejar um retorno ao estrelato.
Barbara Blake
Jordan Blake (a widower) is a successful Broadway Producer who has always been to busy for his children, Barbara and Jerry. Girlfriend, Carolina a musical comedy star, urges Jordan to take his kids on a vacation and get to know them before they are all grown up. Is Jordan already too late?
Sally Burke
The newly crowned Rose Bowl Princess and a tough but tender football player find the California Rose Bowl is an area for their budding romance.
Stephanie Rawlins
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
Pauline Baxter
Mirian Wilkins, the teenage daughter of Senator Wilkins, starts a Society for the Rehabilitation of Criminals and, without the approval or knowledge of her father, elects him to the position of honorary president. When the family's new gardener, Baxter, turns out to be a notorious ex-convict who was sentenced to prison by Senator Wilkins when he was a judge, Wilkins considers firing him until his daughter points out that would be an unwise decision considering the position her father held on society.
Phyllis Lawrence
Bill Lawrence ganhou uma enorme quantidade de prêmios em um programa de perguntas e respostas no rádio. Mas sua felicidade dura pouco quando ele descobre que tem que vender todos os prêmios para pagar os impostos.
Nan Hayward
Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a widowed rancher, Chris Heyward, she meets at the Madison Square Garden Rodeo and they get married, and leave for his ranch in the west. Her friends warn her of an early disillusionment with life on a ranch, far away from the glitter and bright lights of Broadway. Kay makes one difficulty adjustment after another, as the ranch is presided over by Chris's kids, and an incident occurs with a neighbor that prompts Kay to return to her glamorous life in New York. But she soon finds her heart is with Chris and his children.
Penny Macaulay
Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted during a heated argument with her sister, Joan. With the reluctant support of her adoptive parents and baby sister, Penny, Gail goes in search of her biological mother and true identity.
Polly Scott
Mary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. She manages to keep the news from her husband, Brad and daughter, Polly. She tries to make every moment of her life count, but her effort is weakened by the discovery that Brad is interested in his assistant, Chris Radner. But when she learns that Brad does indeed love her and not Chris, and that Chris is leaving town, she realizes what she must do to ensure the future happiness of Brad and Polly. She persuades Chris to stay, makes a genuine friend of her and watches Polly grow towards Chris.
Ellen Cooper
Coach George Copper's college football team is losing game after game, much to the dismay of stiff-and-stuffy but influential alumni Roger Jessup, and also having trouble at home with his oldest daughter, Connie. The team keeps losing and Coach Cooper is about to lose his job as his efforts to win the last game of the season, against the team's Big Rival, end in disaster. But, unknown to he and his wife, Elizabeth, Connie has sold an article, called "I Was a Bubble Dancer" to a 'True-Confession" magazine, and the girl-who-couldn't-get-a-date becomes suddenly popular and, because of her, the high-school football star from another town decides to play his college-ball for Coach Cooper. Jessup is forced to keep Cooper on as the school's football coach.
Susan Matthews
A stubborn farmer is raising his children alone. When his oldest daughter gets a suitor, the father nearly goes on the rampage, but he is forced to change his tune when he is injured, leaving her in charge of the farm.
Ruth Hefferen
A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes.
Eufraznee 'Bean' McGill
Light-hearted, old-style romance about a farm-hand who arranges to buy a pair of mules from his employer. No one is able to handle the mules and he must train them. Adding to his dilemma, he pursues his boss's daughter who gets her kicks out of keeping him guessing about her true feelings. Of course, at the end he tames both the mules and the girl.
Jenny Hollingsworth
An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.
Susan Walker
Quando um velhinho agradável que afirma ser Papai Noel é acusado de insanidade, um jovem advogado decide defendê-lo, argumentando no tribunal que ele de fato é Papai Noel. No desfile do Dia Ação de Graças da Loja de Departamentos Macy's, o ator que interpreta Papai Noel é flagrado por ter bebido por um homem velho bigodudo. Doris Walker, o maluco diretor de eventos especiais da loja, convence o velhinho a assumir o trabalho. O velhinho revela-se uma sensação e é rapidamente recrutado para ser o Papai Noel da saída da principal Macy's. Embora bem sucedido, Walker investiga e descobre que ele se chama Kris Kringle e que ele afirma ser o verdadeiro Papai Noel. Apesar das garantias do médico de que Kringle é inofensivo, Doris ainda tem dúvidas, especialmente porque ele tem cinicamente convencido à si mesmo e especialmente à sua filha, Susan, para rejeitar todas as noções de crença e fantasia.
Anna Muir as a Child
Um ano após a morte do marido, Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney) decide não mais viver com a sogra e a cunhada e aluga o "Chalé Gaivota", uma casa a beira-mar, e para lá se muda com sua filha e sua empregada. Porém, logo o fantasma de Daniel Gregg (Rex Harrison), o falecido proprietário da casa que morrera em um suposto suicídio, surge para a amendrontá-la, mas isto não surte efeito e entre os dois nasce gradativamente uma amizade. Assim, quando ela se vê em uma grave situação financeira, ele decide lhe narrar sua vida para ser transformada em livro e tirá-la deste aperto. Posteriormente, Lucy acaba conhecendo um escritor de histórias para crianças e pensa em se casar com ele. Apesar de não concordar com esta decisão, Daniel decide não mais aparecer e fazer com que Lucy acredite que todas as conversas que tiveram juntos foi produto da imaginação dela.
Carol Warren
Rich and beautiful Southern heiress Sally Warren loves horse-racing and running her horse-farm although her husband of seven years hates the four-legged mammals. Spouse Jeff Warren is a successful author, Civil War scholar, and popular lecturer on the ladies club circuit. After Jeff buys aging twelve-year old nag Albert in the mistaken belief that he's a colt and Sally purchases a desk for her husband in the naive belief that it once belonged to Jefferson Davis, it's obvious that they have few interests in common. The squabbling is complicated by Jeff's jealousy of Sally's relationship with Lance Gale, her childhood friend, neighbor, and fellow horse breeder.
Margaret Ludwig
In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.
Little Girl (uncredited)
An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he had an opportunity to truly appreciate his existence.
Carrie
The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.