Title:
Silver screen icons. Cary Grant : My favorite wife ; Night and day ; The bachelor and the bobby-soxer ; Mr. Blandings builds his dream house
Author:
Dunne, Irene, 1898-1990, actor.
Edition:
Standard version.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (405 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Title from container.
Mr. Blandings builds his dream house is based on the book by Eric Hodgins.
Originally produced as individual motion pictures, 1940 - 1948.
Contents:
Disc 1. My favorite wife (1940 ; 88 min.) / an RKO Radio picture ; a Leo McCarey production ; original story by Bella & Samuel Spewack and Leo McCarey ; written for the screen by Bella & Samuel Spewack ; directed by Garson Kanin -- Night and day (1946 ; 128 min.) / Warner Bros. Pictures ; a Warner Bros.-First National picture ; directed by Michael Curtiz ; screen play by Charles Hoffman, Leo Townsend and William Bowers ; adaptation by Jack Moffitt ; produced by Arthur Schwartz.
Disc 2. The bachelor and the bobby-soxer (1947 ; 95 min.) / an RKO Radio picture ; original story and screen play by Sidney Sheldon ; a Dore Schary production ; directed by Irving Reis -- Mr. Blandings builds his dream house (1948 ; 94 min.) / A Selznick release ; [presented by] Dore Schary ; an RKO Radio production ; produced and written for the screen by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank ; directed by H.C. Potter.
Abstract:
My favorite wife: After being stranded on an island with a handsome man for seven years, a lady explorer returns home only to find herself pronounced legally dead and her husband about to remarry.
Night and day: An exploration of the life and times of Cole Porter.
The bachelor and the bobby-soxer: Through no fault of his own, artist and lady's man Richard Nugent finds a love-besotted teenage girl curled on his sofa. Through no fault of his own, the teen's sister is a judge who "sentences" thunderstruck Richard to date the girl until her schoolgirl crush wanes.
Mr. Blandings builds his dream house: A Manhattan couple decides to leave their high-rise apartment and build a house in rural Connecticut.
Reading Level:
MPAA rating: Not rated.
Personal Subject:
Added Author:
Added Title:
My favorite wife.
Night and day.
Bachelor and the bobby-soxer.
Mr. Blandings builds his dream house.