Williamsburg Regional Library

Greatest classic films collection, Turner Classic Movies ; Warner Home Video

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MPAA rating: PG (Casablanca); for mild violence ; MPAA rating: G (Gigi) ; Not rated (Mrs. Miniver, An American in Paris)

Greatest classic films collection

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312174857

Turner Classic Movies ; Warner Home Video

464

Turner classic movies. Best Picture winners

Casablanca (1942, b&w, 102 min.) : Rick Blaine sticks his neck out for nobody. Then she walks back into his life...with her Resistance-leader husbandMrs. Miniver (1942, b&w, 133 min.): One of Hollywood's most memorable spirit-lifters about an idealized England confronting the terror of World War IIGigi (1958, color, 115 min.): Gigi (Leslie Caron) goes from girlishness to glamour and desires more than the lush life of suitor Gaston (Louis Jourdan)An American in Paris (1951, color, 114 min.):Gene Kelly plays an ex-GI who loves Paris and an alluring but engaged shop clerk (Leslie Caron). Dazzling dances and a stunning ballet finale are spun around songs and music by the Gershwins[Disc 1]: Casablanca: Casablanca, WWII. Rick Blaine is an exiled American who owns the most popular nightclub in town, Rick's cafe. He comes to have possession of two valuable letters that German couriers were killed trying to deliver to the German high command. Ilsa Lund re-enters Rick's life to purchase the letters he has obtained. Mrs. Miniver: The Miniver's are an English 'middle-class' family who, together, experience life in the first months of World War II. While dodging bombs. The Miniver's son beings courting Lady Beldon's granddaughter. A rose is named after Mrs. Miniver and it is entered into a competition where her rose will go up against Lady Beldon's rose[Disc 2]: Gigi: Gaston is the scion of a wealthy Parisian family who finds emotional refuge from the superficial lifestyle of upper class Parisian 1900s society with the former mistress of his uncle and her outgoing, tomboy granddaughter, Gigi. When Gaston becomes aware that Gigi has matured into a woman, her grandmother and aunt, who have educated Gigi to be a wealthy man's mistress, request he become her provider. An American in Paris: Jerry Mulligan is a struggling American painter in Paris who is 'discovered' by an influential heiress. She just happens to an interested in more than Jerry's art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl already engaged to a cabaret singer. His relationshp with Lise is filled with romantic complications

Disc 1. Casablanca -- Mrs. Miniver. Disc 2. Gigi -- An American in Paris

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