Eleanor Parker
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Soon after arriving in France on a music scholarship, young Australian Marjorie takes the opera world by storm. Exhilarated by her achievement, she garners worldwide fame and is heralded as one of the greatest singers of her time. But tragedy strikes in the form of a crippling paralysis ...
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"A powerful, brooding plantation owner of a plantation in the wild and treacherous South American jungle is wary [of] his charming American mail-order bride and wonders why she would leave America for the rigors of jungle life. They're both threatened by the advance of billions of relentless killer ants that are making their way across the jungle cutting a path of creeping horror 20 miles long and two miles wide"--Container.
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"In 1851, artist Walter Hartright arrives in Limmeridge, England to teach drawing to wealthy Laura Fairlie. As he walks to the Fairlie estate, he encounters a strange young woman dressed in white, who disappears when a carriage drives up. The passenger, Count Alesandro Fosco, asks Walter if he has passed a woman, explaining that she has escaped from a private asylum, but Walter says nothing. At the house, Walter is greeted by Laura's cousin, Marian...
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A grandly scaled and ravishingly scenic adventure about the search for clues across the Sinai terrain offering proof of Biblical events. Set in 1900 and unfolding across landscapes of awesome beauty and breathtaking excavations, rough-hewn archaeologist Mark Brandon and determined explorer Ann Mercedes, striving to complete her late father's earlier discoveries, travel a route of intrigue, danger and romance to reach the lost tomb of Ra-Hotep before...
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Wade Hunnicutt is a big man who looms over the Texas backwoodsmen who work his land, over the embittered wife that he cheats on, and over the sons who strive for their father's respect. An emotionally volatile tale of an epic clash between generations. Wade's sons, determinded to be their own men, are in danger of repeating their father's life-crippling legacy of lust and violence.
12) Three secrets
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A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption.
14) Above and beyond
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"If you could press a button that would sacrifice 100,000 people to save a million, would you do it? In the midst of World War II, Col. Paul Tibbets Jr. of the Army Air Corps is asked that question, looks at the buzzer his superior officer puts in his hand -- and presses. Tibbets' unflinching answer gives him the command of the Enola Gay, the B-29 that will drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and help bring the war to a sudden end. [A] carefully detailed...
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Peter is a radio personality who is told he has just inherited two million dollars by a gold-digging secretary who is determined to snag him for herself. Though he never quite believes she's telling the truth about his inheritance, circumstances continue to bring Peter together with Christy, infuriating both his fiancee, June, and his pal, Dr. Cook, who secretly loves June himself. It's not long before Christy and Dr. Cook join forces and cook up...
16) Hans Brinker
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A Dutch boy and his sister, whose father is injured and cannot remember where he hid the family's money, work to not only save their father's life, but attempt to compete in an upcoming skating contest which has a first prize a pair of silver skates.
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"This offbeat western finds escaped desperado Gable holed up in a desert ghost town, inhabited only by four beautiful young widows and their flinty gun-totin' mother-in-law. Oozing an endless supply of charm and masculine virility, Gable sets his sights on this shapely harem and the $100,000 in stolen gold hidden somewhere close by."--Container.
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Comedy about Tony Manetta, a small-time Miami Beach hotel operator barely able to make the payments on his own modest inn, who dreams of one day opening a million dollar resort. In addition to bill collectors, Tony must contend with his beatnik girlfriend and his well-meaning but conservative brother and sister-in-law. Through thick and thin, however, one thing remains constant: the love between Tony and his young son who admires him even if he isn't...