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Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Harriet Craig, a sophisticated yet dictatorial woman who runs her household with an iron fist, driving her staff to distraction and treating her husband, Walter, like an object, and her cousin, Clare, like a slave. When Walter is offered an opportunity to work in Japan, Harriet schemes to keep him home, weaving a web of lies that also affects Clare's romantic affairs and Harriet's relationship with her servants
5) The Women
Description
Mary Haines loses her husband to ruthless Crystal Allen who is aided and abetted by Sylvia Fowler whose own spouse has taken up with another woman. In Reno, in the throes of divorce, all wage war on one another.
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Saloon owner Vienna battles the local townspeople headed by Emma, the local sexually repressed, lynch-happy female rancher out to frame her for a string of robberies. Johnny Logan is a guitar-strumming drifter with a dark past who was once in love with Vienna and has been offered a job in her saloon. Nicholas Ray's epic western is considered one of the most original westerns of all time. The women are far tougher than the men and some saw a bizarre...
7) Possessed
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
She loves him when he goes away for months. She loves him when he refuses to marry her. But when callow David Sutton chooses to marry someone else, Louise Howell's love for him takes a darker turn. Give her a gun and she'll love him to death.--Container
8) Grand Hotel
Pub. Date
1932.
Description
The most expensive hotel in Berlin furnishes the background for gaiety and sorrow in a multi-layered story portrayed by an all-star cast. Immersed in their own concerns, five desperate guests remain oblivious to each other until the hand of fate draws them together and changes their lives forever.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Strait-jacket: "Lucy Harbin goes berserk when she finds her husband in bed with another woman. Lucy axes the couple to death and spends twenty years in a mental institution for murder. After she is released, she moves in with family and hopes her nightmare is over ... but a string of ax murders suddenly start occurring in the neighborhood and police think Lucy has reverted to her old ways." -- Container.
Berserk: "Joan Crawford stars as Monica Rivers,...
10) Grand Hotel
Pub. Date
©2005, ©1932.
Description
The glitz and glitter of Berlin's Grand Hotel comes alive with this story of love and betrayal.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1194
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
The unknown: An unrequited infatuation leads a circus knife-thrower on the run from the law into a troubled state, but when the circus owner discovers the desperate man's secret identity, things become markedly worse.
The mystic: A confederacy of unsavory characters conspire to cheat an heiress...
12) Mommie dearest
Author
Pub. Date
[1978]
Description
Joan Crawford's daughter exposes the actress as an alcoholic and a child abuser and describes the grim reality of her childhood with a mother who was ruthless, unstable, and violent
13) Mommie dearest
Description
The story of legendary movie star Joan Crawford as she struggles for her career and battles the inner demons of her private life. This torment manifests itself into her relationships with her adopted children, Christina and Christopher.
Author
Series
Toby Peters mysteries volume 23
Pub. Date
2003
Description
When his longtime friend Sheldon Minck is arrested for the murder of his estranged wife, Mildred, private detective Toby Peters is hired by film legend Joan Crawford to solve the crime and prevent negative publicity from tarring her name.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
In this new biography, Chandler draws on exclusive and remarkably candid interviews with Crawford herself and with others who knew her, including first husband Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. As a result, this biography is a brand-new look at one of Hollywood's most acclaimed stars. Although her adopted daughter Christina would publish the scathing memoir Mommie Dearest after Crawford's death, Chandler offers a contrasting portrait, drawing in part on reminiscences...
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