Sandra dee in DVDs & Videos

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In this coy, coquettish romantic comedy, Sandra Dee stars as Chantal Stacy, a beautiful socialite who marries photographer Eugene Wright (Bobby Darin, Dee's real-life husband) and sets about training him to become the ideal husband. Reminiscent of other innocent romantic comedies of the time, such as Doris Day's PILLOW TALK, this film hilariously and demurely approaches questions of love and relationships.

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This DVD 2-pack contains all three GIDGET films--GIDGET (1959), GIDGET GOES HAWAIIAN (1960), GIDGET GOES TO ROME (1961), starring Sandra Dee, Deborah Walley, and Cindy Carol, respectively, as the titular teenage surfer girl.

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In Douglas Sirk's emotionally and visually extravagant final film IMITATION OF LIFE, a life's work of subverted melodrama and razor-sharp social commentary are brought to a resounding and baroque climax. In a role that closely resembles and perhaps parodies her own life, Lana Turner plays Lora Meredith, an aspiring actress and single mother who meets Annie Johnson (Juanita Moore), a black and similarly single and struggling mother. When they move in together, Annie assumes the role of domestic servant and the two women struggle together to raise their two daughters. Annie's daughter, Sarah Jane (Susan Kohner), favors her father whose skin tone resembles her own extremely light skin, and she slowly comes to resent her mother's black identity. Transcending the feminist labeling that IMITATION OF LIFE risked, the film freely mixes Meredith's rags to riches (with a hefty moral price tag) tale with Annie's scarring struggles to teach her daughter to accept her identity. As Meredith climbs higher and higher in her glamorous rise to stage and screen stardom, she ignores her vulnerable daughter Susie (Sandra Dee) and creates a devastating contrast for the racial and social tragedy that transpires in her own household. With a deft mixture of icy detachment and morose sentimentality rendered through a transcendent art direction, Sirk leads the film onto an inimitable crescendo of highly adorned emotion and tragedy.

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Winding curves and smashing dead ends make SUMMER PLACE a truly ironic tale of unrequited love and teenage lust. When a business man, Ken Jorgenson (Richard Egan) takes his wife, Helen (Constance Ford) and his daughter Molly (Sandra Dee) to an island off the coast of Maine, little does he suspect that he will rekindle the teenage love affair he once had with the now married Sylvia (Dorothy McGuire). Now it seems that events are going to repeat themselves when her son (Troy Donahue) and his daughter meet and fall in love. Subtle at first, SUMMER PLACE unfolds like a easy love story, but the surprise ending makes it difficult to forget.

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This program contains two films, from 1934 and 1959, based on the novel by Fannie Hurst. Please see individual titles for complete information.

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Rock Hudson teams up with Gina Lollobrigida in this Italian-flavored romantic comedy. Wealthy Robert Talbot enjoys a comfortable life, including a month's vacation every September at his luxurious Italian villa. But one year he decides to visit his second home in July, instead. Little does Talbot know, his sneaky business associate Maurice has turned his villa into a hotel for eleven months of the year and is making a killing. Talbot has to deal with Maurice -- but also with such comic elements as a freewheeling woman and an out-of-control jeep! This was Bobby Darin's first film role, following which he married costar Sandra Dee.

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THAT FUNNY FEELING combines the innocence of romantic comedies from the early 1960s with classic comic conventions in its tales of Joan Howell (Sandra Dee), a lovely young woman who works as a maid, despite her embarrassment at her station in life. When she falls in love with a rich businessman, Tom Milford (Bobby Darin, Dee's real-life husband), she decides to take him back to one of her client's beautiful apartments--not knowing that the apartment belongs to him!

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PORTRAIT IN BLACK: A complex melodrama about an ailing Nob Hill magnate named Matt Cobb whose neglected wife is secretly seeing his doctor. Together the lovers conspire to kill off the iron-fisted millionaire, but one murder leads to another, and soon Cobb's daughter becomes suspicious of her scheming stepmother. MADAME X: A woman with a "dark past" marries an up-and-coming politician, but when her background threatens his career, she leaves him and degenerates into a life of alcoholism and drug addiction. Years later, a blackmailer discovers her identity, and attempts to extort money from her.

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This program contains two films, from 1934 and 1959, based on the novel by Fannie Hurst. Please see individual titles for complete information.

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Debbie Reynolds became a nationally recognized film star after the release of the first Tammy movie, TAMMY AND THE BACHELOR. The comedy follows country girl Tammy as she nurses back to health a wealthy young pilot whose plane crashes near her home. Sandra Dee replaced Reynolds in the title role for the film's two sequels. Looking to improve herself, Tammy goes to college in TAMMY TELL ME TRUE. Finally, TAMMY AND THE DOCTOR takes Tammy to the big city where she studies to be a nurse, and in the process wins the heart of a handsome young intern.

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DIE MONSTER DIE: Based on a story by H.P. Lovecraft, Boris Karloff stars as the wheelchaired master of a strange old house in Arkham, England who acquires mysterious powers when he is zapped by a radioactive meteorite. His daughter (Suzan Farmer) is being courted by a young and bewildered American (Nick Adams), who ultimately must flee the premises from the monstrous patriarch. THE DUNWICH HORROR: Lurking in the quiet village of Dunwich, a supernatural horror lies in wait in this adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft story. When a cute college coed (Sandra Dee) and her professor (Ed Begley) visit the library at the infamous Miskatonic University, they discover a young man (Dean Stockwell) who wishes to check out the dreaded Necronomicon. An ancient book for divining demons, the Necronomicon allows its user to bring hell to Earth, and human sacrifice is the required offering. Pretty young Sandra Dee is the creature's prey...

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Lurking in the quiet village of Dunwich, a supernatural horror lies in wait in this adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft story. When a cute college coed (Sandra Dee) and her professor (Ed Begley) visit the library at the infamous Miskatonic University, they discover a young man (Dean Stockwell) who wishes to check out the dreaded Necronomicon. An ancient book for divining demons, the Necronomicon allows its user to bring hell to Earth, and human sacrifice is the required offering. Pretty young Sandra Dee is the creature's prey...

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Winding curves and smashing dead ends make SUMMER PLACE a truly ironic tale of unrequited love and teenage lust. When a business man, Ken Jorgenson (Richard Egan) takes his wife, Helen (Constance Ford) and his daughter Molly (Sandra Dee) to an island off the coast of Maine, little does he suspect that he will rekindle the teenage love affair he once had with the now married Sylvia (Dorothy McGuire). Now it seems that events are going to repeat themselves when her son (Troy Donahue) and his daughter meet and fall in love. Subtle at first, SUMMER PLACE unfolds like a easy love story, but the surprise ending makes it difficult to forget.

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A complex melodrama about an ailing Nob Hill magnate named Matt Cobb whose neglected wife is secretly seeing his doctor. Together the lovers conspire to kill off the iron-fisted millionaire, but one murder leads to another, and soon Cobb's daughter becomes suspicious of her scheming stepmother.

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A pair of British high society members host a beautiful young American visitor who falls for an American instead of the snooty English boy her stepmother has arranged for her debut.

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This two pack features two 1960s Rock Hudson comedies. Co-starring are, respectively, Gina Lollobrigida and Doris Day. Please see individual titles for complete story descriptions.

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A pair of British high society members host a beautiful young American visitor who falls for an American instead of the snooty English boy her stepmother has arranged for her debut.

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The first and best of the Gidget movies which spawned equally popular television series (two of them!). The pert 'n' perky Dee, a California tomboy, spends the summer at Malibu learning how to surf--and learning about love from a cool surfer and a beach bum. Novelist Kohner based the character on his daughter.

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Based on a James Michener story, UNTIL THEY SAIL tells the romantic story of four New Zealand sisters during World War II and their involvement with American soldiers. Sisters Barbara (Jean Simmons), Anne (Joan Fontaine), Delia (Piper Laurie), and Evelyn (Sandra Dee in her first movie) are lonely for male companionship. Their father and brother are killed, as is Barbara's husband, while Delia's husband, Shiner (Wally Cassell), is a prisoner of war. Each sister finds herself soon involved with an American soldier--with Delia involved with more than one. Anne, a spinster who has kept love at arm's length--finds herself in love with U.S. Marine officer Captain Richard Bates (Charles Drake), but when she becomes pregnant, he is killed before they can be married. In this tragic aftermath, Barbara and another captain, Jack Harding (Paul Newman), engage in a platonic love affair, dictated by Jack's hardened outlook on life and love. To further complicate matters, Delia asks Shiner for a divorce, a decision that results in a catastrophic event that changes all of their lives forever. Director Robert Wise's streamlined directing style, founded on his training and expertise as an editor on suchfilms as CITIZEN KANE, is in full swing in this taut, dramatic war picture.

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Rock Hudson teams up with Gina Lollobrigida in this Italian-flavored romantic comedy. Wealthy Robert Talbot enjoys a comfortable life, including a month's vacation every September at his luxurious Italian villa. But one year he decides to visit his second home in July, instead. Little does Talbot know, his sneaky business associate Maurice has turned his villa into a hotel for eleven months of the year and is making a killing. Talbot has to deal with Maurice -- but also with such comic elements as a freewheeling woman and an out-of-control jeep! This was Bobby Darin's first film role, following which he married costar Sandra Dee.

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In Douglas Sirk's emotionally and visually extravagant final film IMITATION OF LIFE, a life's work of subverted melodrama and razor-sharp social commentary are brought to a resounding and baroque climax. In a role that closely resembles and perhaps parodies her own life, Lana Turner plays Lora Meredith, an aspiring actress and single mother who meets Annie Johnson (Juanita Moore), a black and similarly single and struggling mother. When they move in together, Annie assumes the role of domestic servant and the two women struggle together to raise their two daughters. Annie's daughter, Sarah Jane (Susan Kohner), favors her father whose skin tone resembles her own extremely light skin, and she slowly comes to resent her mother's black identity. Transcending the feminist labeling that IMITATION OF LIFE risked, the film freely mixes Meredith's rags to riches (with a hefty moral price tag) tale with Annie's scarring struggles to teach her daughter to accept her identity. As Meredith climbs higher and higher in her glamorous rise to stage and screen stardom, she ignores her vulnerable daughter Susie (Sandra Dee) and creates a devastating contrast for the racial and social tragedy that transpires in her own household. With a deft mixture of icy detachment and morose sentimentality rendered through a transcendent art direction, Sirk leads the film onto an inimitable crescendo of highly adorned emotion and tragedy.

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Based on a James Michener story, UNTIL THEY SAIL tells the romantic story of four New Zealand sisters during World War II and their involvement with American soldiers. Sisters Barbara (Jean Simmons), Anne (Joan Fontaine), Delia (Piper Laurie), and Evelyn (Sandra Dee in her first movie) are lonely for male companionship. Their father and brother are killed, as is Barbara's husband, while Delia's husband, Shiner (Wally Cassell), is a prisoner of war. Each sister finds herself soon involved with an American soldier--with Delia involved with more than one. Anne, a spinster who has kept love at arm's length--finds herself in love with U.S. Marine officer Captain Richard Bates (Charles Drake), but when she becomes pregnant, he is killed before they can be married. In this tragic aftermath, Barbara and another captain, Jack Harding (Paul Newman), engage in a platonic love affair, dictated by Jack's hardened outlook on life and love. To further complicate matters, Delia asks Shiner for a divorce, a decision that results in a catastrophic event that changes all of their lives forever. Director Robert Wise's streamlined directing style, founded on his training and expertise as an editor on suchfilms as CITIZEN KANE, is in full swing in this taut, dramatic war picture.

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Tammy travels to the big city where she studies to be a nurse, and in the process wins the heart of a handsome young intern.

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In Douglas Sirk's emotionally and visually extravagant final film IMITATION OF LIFE, a life's work of subverted melodrama and razor-sharp social commentary are brought to a resounding and baroque climax. In a role that closely resembles and perhaps parodies her own life, Lana Turner plays Lora Meredith, an aspiring actress and single mother who meets Annie Johnson (Juanita Moore), a black and similarly single and struggling mother. When they move in together, Annie assumes the role of domestic servant and the two women struggle together to raise their two daughters. Annie's daughter, Sarah Jane (Susan Kohner), favors her father whose skin tone resembles her own extremely light skin, and she slowly comes to resent her mother's black identity. Transcending the feminist labeling that IMITATION OF LIFE risked, the film freely mixes Meredith's rags to riches (with a hefty moral price tag) tale with Annie's scarring struggles to teach her daughter to accept her identity. As Meredith climbs higher and higher in her glamorous rise to stage and screen stardom, she ignores her vulnerable daughter Susie (Sandra Dee) and creates a devastating contrast for the racial and social tragedy that transpires in her own household. With a deft mixture of icy detachment and morose sentimentality rendered through a transcendent art direction, Sirk leads the film onto an inimitable crescendo of highly adorned emotion and tragedy.

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DIE MONSTER DIE: Based on a story by H.P. Lovecraft, Boris Karloff stars as the wheelchaired master of a strange old house in Arkham, England who acquires mysterious powers when he is zapped by a radioactive meteorite. His daughter (Suzan Farmer) is being courted by a young and bewildered American (Nick Adams), who ultimately must flee the premises from the monstrous patriarch. THE DUNWICH HORROR: Lurking in the quiet village of Dunwich, a supernatural horror lies in wait in this adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft story. When a cute college coed (Sandra Dee) and her professor (Ed Begley) visit the library at the infamous Miskatonic University, they discover a young man (Dean Stockwell) who wishes to check out the dreaded Necronomicon. An ancient book for divining demons, the Necronomicon allows its user to bring hell to Earth, and human sacrifice is the required offering. Pretty young Sandra Dee is the creature's prey...

Description:

Lurking in the quiet village of Dunwich, a supernatural horror lies in wait in this adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft story. When a cute college coed (Sandra Dee) and her professor (Ed Begley) visit the library at the infamous Miskatonic University, they discover a young man (Dean Stockwell) who wishes to check out the dreaded Necronomicon. An ancient book for divining demons, the Necronomicon allows its user to bring hell to Earth, and human sacrifice is the required offering. Pretty young Sandra Dee is the creature's prey...

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A pair of British high society members host a beautiful young American visitor who falls for an American instead of the snooty English boy her stepmother has arranged for her debut.

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The first and best of the Gidget movies which spawned equally popular television series (two of them!). The pert 'n' perky Dee, a California tomboy, spends the summer at Malibu learning how to surf--and learning about love from a cool surfer and a beach bum. Novelist Kohner based the character on his daughter.

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The first and best of the Gidget movies which spawned equally popular television series (two of them!). The pert 'n' perky Dee, a California tomboy, spends the summer at Malibu learning how to surf--and learning about love from a cool surfer and a beach bum. Novelist Kohner based the character on his daughter.

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Tammy travels to the big city where she studies to be a nurse, and in the process wins the heart of a handsome young intern.