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Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
The story of two widows and their troubled daughters. In the search for success as an actress, Lora neglects her daughter. Lora's black housekeeper's daughter repudiates her mother by trying to pass for white. As the years pass, each of the four women realizes that she has been living an emotionally fruitless existence.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1167
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Explores the friendship between two struggling single mothers: one a working-class white woman who ascends to the top of the business world, and the other her Black housekeeper, whose life is shattered by the rejection of her rebellious, white-passing daughter. It is this latter relationship attuned to America's bitter racial realities and heartbreakingly enacted by trailblazing Black performers Beavers and Washington that lends the film its transcendent...
5) Back street
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A quintessential tearjerker in which a couple meets and falls in love but is unable to marry due to impossible circumstances.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Young at Heart is centered on a family headed by a music-loving patriarch and his musically inclined daughters looking for romance. Doris Day plays the youngest daughter. Laurie, and Gig Young plays Alex Burke, a likable composer who comes for an extended visit and eventually wins the hearts of all three sisters. Frank Sinatra plays Barney Sloan, a cynical songwriter hired by Alex to do arrangements for an upcoming Broadway show.
Series
Language
English
Description
1934 version: Two single mothers join together to form a successful business, but find that material success does nothing to stabilize their personal lives.
1959 version: Two single mothers, a down-on-her-luck actress and a homeless woman, attempt to find happiness for themselves and their daughters.
Pub. Date
1934.
Edition
Standard format (1.33:first, 1934 version) & widescreen format (1.85:first, 1959 version).
Language
English
Description
1934 version: Two single mothers join together to form a successful business, but find that material success does nothing to stabilize their personal lives.
1959 version: Two single mothers-- a down-on-her-luck actress and a homeless woman-- attempt to find happiness for themselves and their daughters.
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