Diahann Carroll
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
It's conventional wisdom that Hollywood has no use for a woman over forty. So it's a good thing that Diahann Carroll-whose winning, sometimes controversial career breached racial barriers-is anything but conventional.
Here she shares her life story with an admirable candidness of someone who has seen and done it all. With wisdom that only aging gracefully can bestow, she talks frankly about her four marriages as well as the other significant relationships...
4) Eve's bayou
Series
Criterion collection volume 1154
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The summer I killed my father, I was ten years old" "So begins Kasi Lemmons's spellbinding feature debut, an evocative journey into the maze of memory steeped in a fragrant southern-gothic atmosphere. In 1960s Louisiana, a young girl sees her well-to-do family unravel in the wake of the infidelities of her charming father setting in motion a series of deceptions and betrayals that will upend her world and challenge her understanding of reality. Rooted...
5) Claudine
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Full frame.
Language
English
Description
While struggling to support herself and her six children in Harlem by working as a maid for a wealthy family, Claudine meets a charming garbage man, Roop. But although Roop is smitten with the lovely single mother, his own life trials make him slow to respond to her invitation to a lifetime of love.
6) Claudine
Series
Criterion collection volume 1052
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Claudine, a struggling mother working to raise enough for her six children by working as a maid in a wealthy home, meets Roop, a charming man who holds back his affections because of his own struggles.
7) Claudine
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"While struggling to support herself and her six children in Harlem by working as a maid for a wealthy family, Claudine (Carroll) meets a charming garbage man, Roop (James Earl Jones). But although Roop is smitten with the lovely single mother, his own life trials make him slow to respond to her invitation to a lifetime of love"--Container.
11) Paris blues
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Two American jazz musicians living in Paris fall in love with two girls on vacation from America. They must decide whether to stay in Paris for their music careers, or move back to America for love.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Five young friends are drawn together by music. Their dreams of fame and fortune take them from amateur nights in ghetto clubs to the pinnacle of show business success and personal tragedy. When the vocal group The Five Heartbeats get to the top of music world they learn the hard reality of the music industry.
13) The front
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
District Attorney Monique Lamont orders Detective Win Garano to reopen the investigation of the brutal, decades-old murder of a young blind woman named Janie Brolin. Janie's boyfriend was the main suspect in the original investigation, but Lamont has another suspect in mind: the Boston Strangler. Garano will work with no-nonsense female detective 'Stump' to uncover the truth about Janie's death and track down a psychopath who is leaving their witnesses...
15) Hurry sundown
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
About racial prejudice and emotional unrest in 1940s Georgia. Henry Warren is an unscrupulous and racist landowner obsessed with buying up all available land in a Georgia farming town. Blocking his path are sharecroppers Rod McDowell and Reeve Scott, one white and one black.
17) Carmen Jones
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Joe, a military policeman about to make officer, is infatuated with the flirtatious and sexy Carmen Jones. Their ill-fated romance comes to a grisly end by the conclusion of the drama but not before their liaison has wreaked havoc with their lives and all who cross their paths.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The fifth season continues to explore the conflicts, passions, drives, and tensions of the Carringtons, a powerful, rich, and greedy oil family, as they struggle to maintain their position of wealth and power in the world. Includes fifteen episodes, and features the debut of Catherine Oxenberg as spoiled daughter Amanda Carrington.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Follows the exploits of the Carringtons and Colbys, both 'oil rich' family dynasties in Denver, Colorado, as they accrue and manipulate power and wealth. Includes fifteen episodes, and features the debut of Emma Samms as Fallon, plus the shocking cliffhanger of the royal wedding massacre!
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
This hugely popular prime-time soap opera follows the exploits of the Carringtons and Colbys, both "oil rich" family dynasties in Denver, CO, as they accrue and manipulate power and wealth. As the war between the Carringtons and Colbys escalates into intensely personal territory, Blake must face down his own brother; Krystle is left clinging to life; and Alexis reaches new depths of romantic treachery.
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