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The Resource Icons of screwball comedy, Volume one., [presented by] Columbia Pictures, (videorecording DVD)

Icons of screwball comedy, Volume one., [presented by] Columbia Pictures, (videorecording DVD)

Label
Icons of screwball comedy, Volume one.
Title
Icons of screwball comedy
Title number
Volume one.
Statement of responsibility
[presented by] Columbia Pictures
Title variation
Columbia Pictures presents
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • Disc 1: If you could only cook: A down-on-her-luck cook charms a millionaire into playing along as her husband so they can get work. Too many husbands: A girl finds herself legally wed to two men
  • Disc 2: My sister Eileen: A sister, who has a pretty, younger sister, brings a host of eccentrics through their Greenwich Village apartment. She wouldn't say yes: A button-down psychiatrist battles her patient's impulses while suppressing her own
Related
Cataloging source
CLE
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
Not rated
Language note
Closed-captioned
PerformerNote
  • If you could only cook: Herbert Marshall, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo
  • Too many husbands: Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray, Melvyn Douglas, Harry Davenport, Dorothy Peterson, Melville Cooper
  • My sister Eileen: Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Janet Blair, George Tobias, Allyn Joslyn
  • She wouldn't say yes: Rosalind Russell, Lee Bowman, Adele Jergens, Charles Winninger
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1890-1966
  • 1900-1991
  • 1908-1991
  • 1866-1949
  • 1897-1979
  • 1896-1973
  • 1902-1986
  • 1901-1980
  • 1901-1981
  • 1914-1979
  • 1917-2002
  • 1884-1969
  • 1874-1965
  • 1895-1966
  • 1911-1972
  • 1892-1978
  • 1897-1958
  • 1893-1965
  • 1892-1964
  • 1905-1978
  • 1889-1972
  • 1894-1968
  • 1903-1997
  • 1890-1975
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Marshall, Herbert
  • Arthur, Jean
  • Carrillo, Leo
  • MacMurray, Fred
  • Douglas, Melvyn
  • Davenport, Harry
  • Peterson, Dorothy
  • Cooper, Melville
  • Russell, Rosalind
  • Aherne, Brian
  • Blair, Janet
  • Tobias, George
  • Joslyn, Allyn
  • Bowman, Lee
  • Jergens, Adele
  • Winninger, Charles
  • Maugham, W. Somerset
  • Fields, Joseph A.
  • Chodorov, Jerome
  • McKenney, Ruth
  • Gordon, Max
  • Herbert, F. Hugh
  • Green, Howard J.
  • Purcell, Gertrude
  • Seiter, William A.
  • Binyon, Claude
  • Ruggles, Wesley
  • Hall, Alexander
  • Görög, László
  • Thiele, Wilhelm
  • Van Upp, Virginia
  • Jacoby, John
  • Tobias, Sarett
Runtime
336
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Women cooks
  • Millionaires
  • Married women
  • Polygamy
  • Man-woman relationships
  • Sisters
  • Eccentrics and eccentricities
  • Women psychiatrists
  • Impulse
Technique
live action
Label
Icons of screwball comedy, Volume one., [presented by] Columbia Pictures, (videorecording DVD)
Instantiates
Publication
Note
  • Title from container
  • Too many husbands is based on the play by W. Somerset Maugham
  • My sister Eileen is based upon the play by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov ; adapted from the stories by Ruth McKenney and produced on the stage by Max Gordon
  • DVD of films originally released 1935-1945
  • Special features: Disc 1: 1946 short film "Ain't love cuckoo;" original theatrical trailers. Disc 2: Original theatrical trailers
Color
black and white
Configuration of playback channels
quadrophonic multichannel or surround
Contents
  • Disc 1:
  • If you could only cook
  • story by F. Hugh Herbert ; screenplay by Howard J. Green and Gertrude Purcell ; directed by William A. Seiter ;
  • (1935)
  • Wesley Ruggles' Too many husbands
  • screenplay by Claude Binyon ; directed by Wesley Ruggles ;
  • (1940)
  • Disc 2:
  • My sister Eileen
  • produced by Max Gordon ; screenplay by Joseph Fields & Jerome Chodorov ; directed by Alexander Hall ;
  • (1942)
  • She wouldn't say yes
  • produced by Virginia Van Upp ; story by Laszlo Gorog and William Thiele ; screenplay by Virginia Van Upp & John Jacoby & Sarett Tobias ; directed by Alexander Hall ;
  • (1945)
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
other
Edition
Standard format.
Extent
2 videodiscs (ca. 336 min.)
Isbn
9781435952928
Isbn Type
(dvd)
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
043396293892
Other physical details
sd., b&w
Publisher number
29389
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
  • ocn428980360
  • (OCoLC)428980360
System details
DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1); Dolby Digital
Terms governing use
These DVD discs are copy protected.
Video recording format
DVD
Label
Icons of screwball comedy, Volume one., [presented by] Columbia Pictures, (videorecording DVD)
Publication
Note
  • Title from container
  • Too many husbands is based on the play by W. Somerset Maugham
  • My sister Eileen is based upon the play by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov ; adapted from the stories by Ruth McKenney and produced on the stage by Max Gordon
  • DVD of films originally released 1935-1945
  • Special features: Disc 1: 1946 short film "Ain't love cuckoo;" original theatrical trailers. Disc 2: Original theatrical trailers
Color
black and white
Configuration of playback channels
quadrophonic multichannel or surround
Contents
  • Disc 1:
  • If you could only cook
  • story by F. Hugh Herbert ; screenplay by Howard J. Green and Gertrude Purcell ; directed by William A. Seiter ;
  • (1935)
  • Wesley Ruggles' Too many husbands
  • screenplay by Claude Binyon ; directed by Wesley Ruggles ;
  • (1940)
  • Disc 2:
  • My sister Eileen
  • produced by Max Gordon ; screenplay by Joseph Fields & Jerome Chodorov ; directed by Alexander Hall ;
  • (1942)
  • She wouldn't say yes
  • produced by Virginia Van Upp ; story by Laszlo Gorog and William Thiele ; screenplay by Virginia Van Upp & John Jacoby & Sarett Tobias ; directed by Alexander Hall ;
  • (1945)
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
other
Edition
Standard format.
Extent
2 videodiscs (ca. 336 min.)
Isbn
9781435952928
Isbn Type
(dvd)
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
043396293892
Other physical details
sd., b&w
Publisher number
29389
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
  • ocn428980360
  • (OCoLC)428980360
System details
DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1); Dolby Digital
Terms governing use
These DVD discs are copy protected.
Video recording format
DVD

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