William Luce
Author
Description
The spellbinding Julie Harris takes us on a magic carpet into the beautiful and haunting world of writer Isak Dinesen (pen name of Karen Blixen), romantic author and heroine of Out of Africa. Through her fanciful pact with Lucifer, Dinesen becomes a defiant spirit, an eccentric storytelling sorceress-passionate and wickedly witty. Act I opens on New Year's Eve 1958, as Karen Blixen prepares for a three-month visit to the United States. Addressing...
2) Barrymore
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A filmed play of Christopher Plummer in his Tony Award winning performance as iconic stage and screen idol John Barrymore. At the height of his remarkable career, John Barrymore was the most celebrated entertainer of his generation. The reigning king of both Broadway and Hollywood, his decline and fall from grace was the tragic result of a self-destructive spiral into vice and excess. And now, with his career in tatters, he makes one final attempt...