Julius J. Epstein
1) Casablanca
Language
English
Formats
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Language
English
Description
Dealing openly with anti-Semitism and Nazi atrocities, the story spans World War I, Prohibition and the preliminary volley of World War II. Fanny (Bette Davis) thrives on the adulation of countless suiters before and after she marries Job Skeffington (Claude Rains). Ravaged by age and illness, Fanny clings to Job's promise that "a woman is beautiful only when she is loved."
3) Casablanca
Language
English
Formats
Description
Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if you're wanted by the Nazis. Such a man is Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, whose only hope is Rick Blaine, a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one - especially Victor's wife Ilsa, the ex-lover who broke his heart. Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's transport out of the country and bitter Rick must decide what counts more - personal happiness or countless lives...
Language
English
Description
"Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts greet him with love, sweetness ... and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who's a dead ringer for Boris Karloff, and a seriously slippery...
5) Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Set in World War II Morocco within a city filled with European refugees. A bitter nightclub owner helps his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
When he overhears a doctor discussing the imminent death of a patient, hypochondriac George bealieves the doctor is referring to him. Convinced he's living on borrowed time, he enlists his best friend Arnold to help him find a new husband for his soon-to-be-widowed wife Judy.
Pub. Date
1942.
Language
English
Description
"Henry Fonda plays bookish Prof. Tommy Turner, struggling to get in touch with his man-of-action side during the weekend of the big football game, the arrival of an ex-gridiron star... fancied by Turner's wife and the academic tussle that treatens the professor's tenure"--Container.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
When he overhears a doctor discussing the imminent death of a patient, hypochondriac George believes the doctor is referring to him. Convinced he's living on borrowed time, he enlists his best friend Arnold to help him find a new husband for his soon-to-be-widowed wife Judy.
11) Casablanca
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
12) House calls
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A surgeon who has recently lost his wife becomes involved in a series of relationships that don't work out. Suddenly, a woman enters his life who instantly captures his heart.
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Reporter Charles Wills (Johnson) falls in love and marries the gorgeous Helen Elsworth (Taylor). He supports her with a low paying job, devoting his evenings to writing a novel. After numerous rejections, he gives up writing, quits his job and lives of investments. The marriage falters when he enters into self-destructive behavior that is halted by a devasting tragedy.
14) Reuben, Reuben
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Gowan McGland is poet who hasn't written anything in over five years. To get by, he beds other men's wives, gives flamboyant lectures on the New England college circuit, and steals tips from waiters at expensive restaurants. It's not much of a life, but that's all he has, until he meets the dazzling Geneva Spofford.
17) Young at heart
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.
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a writer who returns to Paris and remembers the life he once led in the City of Lights. During the Liberation of Paris, at the close of World War II, he meets and falls in love with a beautiful rich girl. They marry and have a lovely daughter together. But life's harsh realities threaten to tear their love apart.
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Young Biff Grimes is the son of an Irishman who's better at blarney than at holding down a job. Determined to make something of himself, Biff takes a mail-order course in dentistry and practices his handiwork on dear old dad. In his spare time he manages to fall for Virginia Brush, "the strawberry blonde, " but unfortunately Virginia is more interested in Hugo Barnstead, an up-and-coming financier. Virginia has another girl in mind for Biff: her best...
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