Leslie Howard
Pub. Date
[2005], c1939
Formats
Description
An epic story of the South's fight to maintain its way of life during the Civil War years. Scarlett O'Hara and her family are amongst the ladies and gentlemen at the Twelve Oaks Plantation's ball before the Civil War begins. Scarlett's love for one man keeps her from seeing the love that another man truly has for her. As the South finally crumbles around her, Scarlett devises a way to overcome starvation in order to save herself and her family.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Scarlett is a woman who is strong and has vitality. She deals with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, and the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Ashley Wilkes is the man she has wanted for so long, but he is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. At a Twelve Oaks barbeque, Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself. There she meets Rhett Butler. That is the first day of the Civil War....
4) Pygmalion
Series
Criterion collection volume 85
Pub. Date
2000, c1938
Description
Professor Henry Higgins (Howard) works to make a pretty flower girl (Hiller) into a young lady of society.
Pub. Date
1998
Description
London fop Percy Blakeney is also secretly the Scarlet Pimpernel who, in a variety of disguises, makes repeated daring trips to France to save aristocrats from Madame Guillotine. His unknowing wife is also French, and she finds that her brother, has been arrested by the Republic to try and get her to find out who "that damned elusive Pimpernel" really is.
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