Directed by Rick McKay, who traveled across five continents during the documentary's production, Broadway: The Golden Age is...
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2004
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During her valedictorian address at her high school graduation, Renata Devereaux (Shanee Edwards) makes a startling...
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1998
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In this slightly dark comedy about romantic obsession, Sam (Matthew Broderick) is an astronomer who likes his life in the...
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Nana
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1997
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Jack Lemmon has mastered both stage and screen in his career with such hits as "The Odd Couple," "The Days of Wine and...
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1996
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The Mommy Market originated as a fey satirical novel by Nancy Brelis. In the film version, Anna Chlumsky plays the oldest of...
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Mrs. Cavour
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1994
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An elderly retired violinist befriends a troubled young woman in this touching, sensitively performed drama....
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Ida Cutler
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1994
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In this black comedy, elderly Jack Scanlan (Jack Warden) passes away just as he's about to tell his oldest son Johnny...
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Mary Scanlan
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1992
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Based on an autobiography by Betty Rollin, this is a heart-tugger which finds a woman with cancer seeking the assistance of...
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1992
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President Abraham Lincoln leads the Union in the fight to end the awful bloodshed of the Civil War. The year is 1863. The...
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1992
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A shrewd politician, Abraham Lincoln had the intelligence, ambition, and principles to grow into his job as president. This...
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1992
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In this Hallmark Hall of Fame TV film set in the post-war era, Kyra Sedgwick is the title character, a New Yorker who has...
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Tanta Perla
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1992
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This video is the fourth installment of the Lincoln series, originally aired on PBS. This volume focuses on the last days...
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1992
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By the third year of the Civil War, personal and national tragedy had worn down President Lincoln. However, he focused on...
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1992
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1989
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Ryan Richmond (Nicholas Strouse) is a lonely teen from Sunnydale, Arizona who believes he is a space alien in this offbeat...
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1988
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This was the "unofficial" Liberace biopic, as opposed to the error-ridden "official" Liberace (telecast one week earlier in...
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Frances Liberace
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1988
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Cocoon 2: The Return, like most sequels, relies a bit too heavily on one's familiarity with the first film. Without dwelling...
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Mary Luckett
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1988
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High-priced hooker Claudia Draper (Barbra Streisand) has been arrested for the murder of one of her clients. The attorney...
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Rose Kirk, Claudia's Mother
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1987
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Alan Rudolph directed this offbeat, boy-meets-girl romance in which boy dies, dead boy meets dead girl, dead boy loses dead...
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Mike's Aunt Lisa
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1987
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The elderly owner of an aging but still beloved Catskill's landmark inn must decide whether to make necessary repairs to the...
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Lillian Garber
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1987
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Though she always played coy about the fact in interviews, Nora Ephron's novel Heartburn is a thinly disguised "à clef"...
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Vera
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1986
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Estelle
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1986
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Animation veteran Faith Hubley worked solo for the first time since her husband's death in 1977 to oversee the feature-length...
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1986
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In this drama, the failed pilot for a TV series, a psychologist endeavors to balance his turbulent personal life, with those...
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1985
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Cocoon is a warm-hearted science-fiction fable that avoids becoming overly corny thanks to the performances of its mostly...
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Mary Luckett
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1985
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Little Gloria...Happy at Last is the two-part TV adaptation of Barbara Goldsmith's 1980 best-seller. The film concerns the...
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1984
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Maggie Lukauer
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1984
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In this sad melodrama, a dying Broadway producer decides to adopt a sweet young girl to keep her husband company after she...
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1984
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Forgotten photography pioneer Lewis Hine, 1874-1940) is the subject of this fascinating documentary on a man who ironically...
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1984
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This spoof of the 1930s and '40s crime stories ranges from the ridiculous to the sublime as it tells the story of Johnny...
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Mom
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1984
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1983
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Part of the Broadway Theater Archives, this stage production of Lewis Carroll's children's fantasy Alice in Wonderland was...
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1983
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In this drama, a homeless shoeshine boy who lives in a locker at the train station finds himself quite popular after he...
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Mary/Big Lady
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1981
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Few filmmakers other than Warren Beatty would have had the courage and vision to fashion an epic film from the life of famed...
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1981
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The Electric Grandmother was the second TV adaptation of Ray Bradbury's I Sing the Body Electric (the first was presented on...
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1981
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Lauren Bacall more or less plays herself in The Fan. Cast as famous Broadway musical comedy star Sally Ross (with an...
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Belle Goldman
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1981
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Adam (George Segal) is an English instructor at a U.S. college who hopes to win a professorship and tenure. Tricia (Glenda...
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Jemmy
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1979
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Mrs. Shandig
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1979
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Ed Asner dominated the proceedings of the 1977 TV movie The Gathering; inasmuch as Asner's character died at the end of that...
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Kate Thornton
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1979
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Host
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1979
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Frank is Frank Miller (Art Carney), a 65 year old newspaper man. His letters are to his oldest son Richard (Mike Farrell),...
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1979
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This 1979 documentary chronicles the first 64 years in the life of Arthur Miller (b. 1915), an important 20th-century...
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1979
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Pearl
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1978
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The Gathering stars Ed Asner as an ill-tempered executive who long ago walked out on his family. Just before Christmas,...
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Kate Thornton
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1977
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This TV adaptation of Tennessee Williams' prize-winning play stars Robert Wagner as Brick, a college sports champion who...
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Big Mama
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1976
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1976
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Queen of the Stardust Ballroom stars Maureen Stapleton as Bea Asher, a woman faced with many new challenges since becoming a...
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1975
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Maureen Stapleton stars as a housewife who, after 26 years of marriage, is searching for new meaning in life. She inaugurates...
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1974
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It is not uncommon for actors to double and triple in roles while appearing in the "omnibus" plays of Neil Simon. Plaza Suite...
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Karen Nash
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1971
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A surprise success in 1971 ($20 million worth of "surprise"), The Summer of '42 is a coming-of-age piece, drenched in...
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1971
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Airport had enough plot and enough star power in its cast for three feature films, and it only encompassed about half of the...
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1970
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This trilogy begins with "Miriam" in which the title character (Susan Dunfee) watches as her longtime nanny Miss Miller...
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1969
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1968
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Mama Peterson
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1963
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A View from the Bridge is set in New York, but the alleged political undesirability of playwright Arthur Miller dictated that...
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Beatrice Carbone
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1962
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Fugitive Kind began life as Battle of Angels, a never-produced 1939 play by a young Tennessee Williams. Nearly 20 years...
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Vee Talbott
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1960
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For his film directorial debut, producer Dore Schary selected a longtime pet property: Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathaniel West's...
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Fay Doyle
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1958
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