Helen Hayes
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Language
English
Description
In addressing her grandchildren in the foreword to this autobiography, Helen Hayes writes: 'It is no longer fashionable to have faith, but your grandmother has never been famous for her chic.' It is, in fact, because of her tenacious faith in the world that Helen Hayes decided to write this book as a legacy for her grandchildren, to be read one day when they are grown.
In setting down all the family stories, the backstage anecdotes and her recollections...
Author
Language
English
Description
Helen Hayes had been on stage, screen, and television for more than fifty years. In that time she moved among the world's most famous and talented people. She speaks with wit, wisdom, and candor on topics both public and private, offering behind-the-scenes portraits of great personalities, telling of the advice older actors gave her and how she in turn gave advice. She treats us to delightful anecdotes about Ethel Barrymore, John Ford, and Al Capone,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Frederic Henry, an American driving ambulances for the Army during World War I, falls for Red Cross nurse Catherine Barkley, to the displeasure of jealous commanding officer Major Rinaldi, who moves Catherine to a different hospital out of spite. But after Frederic is injured on the battlefield, he is evacuated to her new hospital in Milan, and the star-crossed lovers begin their romance anew.
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Series
Language
English
Description
When Agatha Christie's beloved amateur sleuth Miss Jane Marple arrives at an elegant resort for a relaxing vacation, she stumbles on a complex web of cold-blooded murders. Armed only with a mind as sharp as her knitting needles, she races against the clock to prevent a murderer from killing ... again. Based on Agatha Christie's Caribbean Mystery.
6) Airport
Publisher
GoodTimes Home Video
Pub. Date
1999, c1970
Language
English
Description
The manager of an international airport must juggle personal crises with professional responsibilities as he attempts to keep his blizzard-torn facility open to rescue a bomb-damaged jetliner.
7) Arrowsmith
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
1931.
Language
English
Description
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
On the train ride to Marylebone Station, American Luke Williams befriends elderly Lavinia Fullerton. She is en route to Scotland Yard to disclose the name of a murderer, and Luke soon finds himself caught up in a murder investigation.
10) Anastasia
Series
Studio classic volume 9
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
An expatriate White Russian general sets in motion a grand hoax after he meets a destitute woman on the banks of the Seine River in Paris. He is amazed at her resemblance to Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas of Russia, rumored to have somehow survived the Bolsheviks' execution of the Romanoff family in 1918. He trains her to impersonate the missing princess but soon begins to feel she may be the real Anastasia. Ultimately, the truth...