Living a lie is a poor substitute for living the truth - sometimes it takes the harsh realties of life to help us discover who we truly are. The legendary Lana Turner stars in this 1959 version of Fannie Hurst's emotionally charged drama which chronicles two widows and their troubled daughters as they struggle to find true happiness amidst racial prejudice. Lana Turner plays Lora a single white mother whose Hollywood starlet ambitions come at the expense of any meaningful relationship with her daughter Susie (Sandra Dee). Lora's black housekeeper Annie (Juanita Moore) has troubles of her own as she faces the rejection of her own fair-skinned daughter Sarah Jane (Susan Kohner) who abandons her heritage for a chance to be accepted as white. As years of selfishness and denial pass tragedy strikes and forces the women to come to terms with their own identities.
Side A - 1931: Frederic March won the Best Actor Academy Award for his portrayal of the dual personality doctor in Rouben Mamoulian's take on the Stevenson novella tracing Jekyll's troubles to their source in sexual repression... Side B - 1941: Spencer Tracey Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner star in Victor Fleming's adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson tale. Dr Jekyll's (Tracey) experimental potion reveals his evil side unleashing the murderous Mr Hyde on an unsuspe
Even under the heavy censorship of 1946 Hollywood, Lana Turner and John Garfield's libidinous desires burn up the screen in Tay Garnett's adaptation of James M. Cain's torrid crime melodrama. Platinum blond Turner is Cora, a restless sexpot stuck in a roadside diner married to mundane middle-aged fry cook Nick Smith (Cecil Kellaway) when handsome drifter Frank (Garfield) blows her way. It's lust at first sight, a rapacious desire that neither can break off, and before long they're plotting his demise--but in the wicked world of Cain nothing is that easy. Garnett's visual approach is subdued compared to the more expressionistic film noir of the period, but he's at no loss when he films the luminous Turner in her milky-white wardrobe. She radiates repressed sexuality and uncontrollable passion while Garfield's smart-talking loner Frank mixes street-smart swagger and scrappy toughness with vulnerability and sincere intensity. Co-star Hume Cronyn cuts a cold, calculating figure as their conniving lawyer, a chilly character that only increases our feelings for the murderous couple, victims of an all-consuming amour fou that drives their passions to extremes. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com
Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbour. Beneath the town's placid God-fearing exterior lay any number of dark secrets involving sexual attraction and repression illegitimacy rape gossip intolerance and class snobbery. No wonder Allison had moved to a quiet place like New York...
Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbour. Beneath the town's placid God-fearing exterior lay any number of dark secrets involving sexual attraction and repression, illegitimacy, rape, gossip, intolerance, and class snobbery. No wonder Allison had moved to a quiet place like New York...
Six of Judy Garland's most loved films are brought together on this marvellous boxed set. A Star Is Born - Special Edition (Dir. George Cukor 1954):'A Star Is Born' marked Judy Garland's return to movies after a four year absence director George Cukor's first musical and first colour film and a showcase for the great Harold Arlen/Ira Gershwin songs in state-of-the-art stereo. One of the most beloved show business stories of all time it represents a career peak for many inv
One of Hollywood's most popular leading women of the 1950s, Lana Turner (Imitation of Life) stars alongside Oscar nominee Jeff Chandler (Broken Arrow) in this inventive 1958 film part comedy, part romance, part thriller about the lengths to which we'll go for love. In the aftermath of World War Two, former Air Force colonel Mike Dandridge (Chandler) launches a lucrative air-ferry service with wartime pal Al Reynolds (Richard Denning, Creature from the Black Lagoon). With business booming, Mike hires the gifted and gorgeous Maggie Colby (Turner) as his lead pilot. Together, Mike and Maggie take to the skies and travel the world. In each new city they hit London, Madrid, Paris, Japan sparks fly, and the pair find themselves deeper and deeper in what promises to be a fun-filled, one-of-a-kind romance. But as the stakes are raised for Mike and Maggie both in their lives at home and in the air the duo discovers that the lifestyle they've grown to love might be too difficult to sustain.
Titles Comprise: Singin' In The Rain: Musician Don Lockwood (Kelly) rises to stardom during Hollywood's silent-movie era - paired with the beautiful jealous and dumb Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen). When Lockwood becomes attracted to young studio singer Kathy Selden (Reynolds) Lamont has her fired. But with the introduction of talking pictures audiences laugh when they hear Lockwood speak for the first time - and the studio uses Selden to dub her voice. An American In Paris: Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron sing and dance to the music of George and Ira Gershwin in this winner of six Academy Awards including Best Picture. When ex-GI Jerry Mulligan (Kelly) remains in Paris to pursue life as an artist he is discovered by a wealthy patroness interested in more than his art. But Mulligan falls in love with a French shop girl (Caron) who is engaged to his best friend. Anchors Aweigh: Frank Sinatra Gene Kelly and Jerry the Mouse star in this charming musical mix of live action and animation. Two sailors (Sinatra and Kelly) in Hollywood looking for glamorous movie starlets find romance dance with a cartoon mouse and help a young starlet get discovered - all during one shore leave. On The Town: Three sailors - Gabey (Gene Kelly) Chip (Frank Sinatra) and Ozzie (Jules Munshin) - are let loose in New York City on 24 hour leave. On a subway Gabey sees a poster of Miss Turnstiles of the Month - a woman named Ivy Smith (Vera-Ellen). Thinking she's a high society girl the trio spend the day looking for her. Along the way they run into a cab driver Hilde (Betty Garrett) who is attracted to Chip and a gorgeous anthropologist named Claire (Ann Miller). The Three Musketeers: To the cry of all for one and one for all comes a version of the Alexandre Dumas classic that's fun for all - a rousing swashbuckling adaptation that was Gene Kelly's favorite among his non-musical movies. Kelly plays country lad D'Artagnan who comes to Paris with heady ambition and duels his way into the ranks of King Louis XIII's musketeers. He swashes-and-buckles with brio bringing to action scenes of the virile athleticism that set him apart as a dancer in movie musicals. A top cast - Vincent Price as unctuous Cardinal Richelieu Lana Turner as villainous Lady de Winter June Allyson as Constance and Angela Lansbury as Queen Anne - joins Kelly in this exuberant tale filmed in luscious Technicolor.
Living in London in the dark days World War II American reporter Sara Scott (Turner) starts a passionate love affair with fellow journalist BBC reporter Mark Trevor (Connery). Mark refuses to marry Sara since he already has a wife and a child residing in a small village in Cornwall. However when Mark leaves for the continent on a dangerous assignment an expected turn of events will change Sara's life forever...
Titles Comprise: Lolita: Humbert is smitten. He plans to marry Charlotte Haze. That way he'll always be close to his dear one - Charlotte's precocious daughter! Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick explores the theme of sexual obsession (a subject he would revisit 37 years later in Eyes Wide Shut) with this darkly comic and deeply moving version of Vladimir Nabokov's novel. James Mason plays devious deluded Humbert: wedded to needy Charlotte (Shelley Winters); rivaled by the ubiquitous Clare Quilty (chameleonlike Peter Sellers); and enraptured to his gelatinous core by the blithe teen (Sue Lyon) with that lovely lyrical lilting name - Lolita! The Postman Always Rings Twice: When Nick Smith (Cecil Kellaway) hires drifter Frank (John Garfield) to work as a handyman at his roadside diner he unwittingly sets in motion a chain of events that will lead to his own murder. Nick's beautiful wife Cora (Lana Turner) persuades her lover Frank to join her in a plot to kill her husband but events spin out of control as the suspense builds in this tale of lust and immorality... Dangerous Liaisons: The game of conquest is underway. Anything goes when a predatory wealthy widow (Glenn Close) challenges a notorious rake (John Malkovich) to seduce a beautiful young newlywed (Michelle Pfeiffer). But this time a cardinal rule will be broken: two players will fall in love - with tragic results. This acclaimed winner of three Academy Awards boasts grand 18th century without missing a beat.
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