Rudolph Valentino

Dark Lover by Emily W. Leider  B Valentino

 The Sheik [VHS]  Classics S
A charming sheik becomes infatuated with an adventurous, modern-thinking Englishwoman and abducts her to his home in the Sahara desert.

Son of the Sheik [DVD]  Classics S
Will Ahmed believe that Yasmin set him up for capture? Even if true love finds a way through webs of deceit, what will the vigorous and imposing sheik say about his son consorting with a dancing girl?

Fred Astaire

Steps in Time by Fred Astaire  B Astaire

Flying Down to Rio [VHS]  Musical F
Fred and Ginger in a frothy milkshake of a musical with a tangy, South American flavor!

Shall We Dance [VHS]  Musical S
A budding romance between a ballet master and a tap dancer becomes complicated when rumors surface that they're already married.

Swing Time [VHS]  Musical S
A performer and gambler travels to New York City to raise the $25,000 he needs to marry his fiancée, only to become entangled with a beautiful aspiring dancer.

Top Hat [VHS]  Musical T
Fred and Ginger as a talented and charming but somewhat star-crossed couple. Ginger thinks Fred is someone else (who is married instead of single) and thus misinterprets and rejects his advances.

Gary Cooper

The Last Hero by Larry Swindell  B Cooper

Gary Cooper: American Hero by Jeffrey Meyers  B Cooper

Ball of Fire [VHS]  Classics B
A group of ivory-tower lexicographers realize they need to hear how real people talk, and end up helping a beautiful singer escape from the Mob.

For Whom the Bell Tolls [VHS]  Drama F
Spain in the 1930s - there’s a civil war going on and Robert Jordan has been given a high-risk assignment. In the mountains, he awaits the right time to blow up a bridge…

Morocco [VHS]  Romance M
The Foreign Legion marches into town with booze and women on their minds just as singer Amy Jolly arrives from Paris . Legionnaire Tom Brown catches her seductive, tuxedo-clad act. Both bruised by their past lives, the two edge cautiously into a no-strings relationship while being pursued by others. But Tom must leave on a perilous mission: is it too late for them?

Sergeant York [VHS]  War S
True story of a hillbilly sharpshooter drafted in WW1 despite his claim to be a pacifist, who ends up becoming a war hero.

Humphrey Bogart

Bogart by A.M. Sperber and Eric Lax  B Bogart

The African Queen [DVD]  Classics A
In Africa during WW1, a gin-swilling riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship.

Beat the Devil [VHS]  Classics B
A quartet of international crooks is stranded in Italy while their steamer is being repaired. They’re headed for Africa , presumably to sell vacuum cleaners but actually to buy land supposedly loaded with uranium. They‘re joined by many others who apparently have similar designs.

Casablanca [DVD]  Classics C
An American expatriate in Africa meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Key Largo [VHS]  Thriller K
A veteran visits his old friend's hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up in a tense confrontation.

The Oklahoma Kid [VHS]  Western O
Jimmy Cagney and Humphrey Bogart face off in the Old West.

Sabrina [VHS]  Classics S
A playboy becomes interested in the daughter of his family's chauffeur. But might his more serious older brother be the better man for her?

Clark Gable

Clark Gable by Warren G. Harris  B Gable

 Gone with the Wind [DVD]  Classics G
American classic in which a manipulative woman and a roguish man carry on a turbulent love affair in the American South during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

It Happened One Night [DVD]  Classics I
A spoiled heiress, running away from her family, is helped by a man who's actually a reporter looking for a story. But then he falls for her...

Mutiny on the Bounty [DVD]  Classics M
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.

Leslie Howard

In Search of My Father by Ronald Howard  B Howard

Intermezzo [VHS]  Foreign I
A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter's talented piano teacher. When he invites her to go on tour with him, they make beautiful music away from the concert hall as well.

The Petrified Forest [VHS]  Drama P
Gabby lives and works at her dad’s small diner out in the desert, but wants desperately to leave. Along comes Alan, a broken man with no will to live, on his way to the Pacific, maybe to drown.  Meanwhile Duke Mantee, a notorious killer, is on his way to meet his girl…

Pygmalion [VHS]  Classics P
A Victorian dialect expert bets that he can teach a lower-class girl to speak proper English.  My Fair Lady is the musical version of this.

The Scarlet Pimpernel [VHS]  Classics S
An 18th century English aristocrat leads a double life. He appears to be merely a fop, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from the Reign of Terror.

Cary Grant

Cary Grant by Marc Eliot  B Grant

Cary Grant: A Class Apart by Graham McCann  B Grant

 An Affair to Remember [DVD]  Classics A
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?

Bringing Up Baby [DVD]  Classics B
When Susan Vance, a wealthy, scatterbrained young woman, takes a shine to Dr. David Huxley, a sober paleontologist, mayhem ensues.

Charade [VHS]  Thriller C
Romance and suspense in Paris , as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Who can she trust?

His Girl Friday [VHS]  Comedy H
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.

None But the Lonely Heart [VHS]  Drama N
When an irresponsible itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they're tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet.

The Philadelphia Story [DVD]  Classics P
Heiress Tracy Lord throws out her playboy husband C.K. Dexter Haven shortly after their marriage. Two years later, she’s about to remarry when Dexter arrives at the house the day before the wedding with mischief - and romance - in mind.

Yul Brynner

Yul: the Man Who Would Be King by Rock Brynner  B Brynner

 Anastasia [VHS]  Drama A
An opportunistic Russian businessman tries to pass off a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia.

The King and I [DVD]  Musical K
Musical about a widow who accepts a job as a live-in governess to the many children of the fiery and unpredictable King of Siam.

The Magnificent Seven [VHS]  Western M
An oppressed Mexican peasant village assembles seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

Marlon Brando

Somebody: the Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando
by Stefan Kanfer  B Brando

Brando by Peter Manso  B Brando

 Apocalypse Now [DVD]  War A
During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe.

The Godfather DVD Collection  Drama G
The multigenerational saga of the rise and fall of the Corleone crime family.

Guys and Dolls [VHS]  Musical G
All the hot gamblers are in town, and they're all depending on Nathan Detroit (Brando) to set up this week's incarnation of "The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York"; then throw in Sarah Brown, who's short on sinners at the mission she runs, and a bet that Nathan can't get her to go with him to Havana …

 On the Waterfront [DVD]  Drama O
An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to corrupt union bosses.

James Dean

James Dean: Little Boy Lost by Joe Hyams  B Dean

 East of Eden [VHS]  Drama E
In the Salinas Valley, in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father, but he’s frustrated at every turn.

Giant [VHS]  Drama G
Ambitious epic that traces the rising and falling fortunes of two generations of Texans.

Rebel Without a Cause [VHS]  Classics R
Jim Stark is the new kid in town. Here he seeks the love he doesn't get from his middle-class family. Though he finds it with his girl Judy and in timid Plato's adulation, Jim must still prove himself to his peers.

Sean Connery

Sean Connery by Michael Feeney Callan  B Connery

Sean Connery: from 007 to Hollywood Icon by Andrew Yule  B Connery

 Dr. No [VHS]  Action D
Meet the most extraordinary gentleman spy in all fiction!...JAMES BOND, Agent 007!

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade [DVD]  Adventure I
When Dr. Henry Jones Sr. suddenly goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, Indy must follow in his father's footsteps and stop the Nazis.

The Man Who Would be King [VHS] Action M
Two British soldiers in India decide to resign from the Army and set themselves up as deities in Kafiristan--a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander.

Never Say Never Again [VHS]  Action N
A SPECTRE agent has stolen two American nuclear warheads, and James Bond must find their targets before they are detonated.

Robin and Marian [VHS]  Action R
The aging Robin Hood returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.

Paul Newman

Paul Newman: Superstar by Lionel Godfrey  B Newman

Paul and Joanne by Joe Morella  B Newman

 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof [VHS]  Drama C
Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.

Cool Hand Luke [DVD]  Drama C
Lucas Jackson, natural born world shaker, someone with more guts than brains, a man who refuses to conform to the rules he has been given. Sent to a prison camp for a misdemeanor, he doesn’t take things seriously, but the bosses want him broken.

Exodus [VHS] Drama E
Following World War II, the life of the Jewish nation is uncertain. Many Jews are exiled from much of Europe - especially Germany - and as they have nowhere to go, they are sent to detention camps. Ari Ben Canaan, a Palestinian Jew, wants to smuggle as many as possible into Palestine . He commandeers a ship crowded with 600 refugee Jews, and after meeting some obstacles, manages to make it to Palestine . Trouble doesn’t end there, however.

Hud [VHS]  Drama H
Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences.

The Sting [DVD]  Comedy S
In 1930s Chicago, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker.

Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon by Aram Goudsouzian  B Poitier

This Life by Sidney Poitier  B Poitier

 Blackboard Jungle [VHS]  Classics B
A new English teacher at a violent, unruly inner-city school is determined to do his job, despite resistance from both students and faculty.

Cry, the Beloved Country [VHS]  Classics C
In the back country of South Africa , black minister Stephen Kumalo  journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Misimangu (Sidney Poitier) is a young South African clergyman who helps find his missing son-turned-thief in the slums of Johannesburg .

In the Heat of the Night [DVD]  Action I
An African American detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town.

To Sir, With love [DVD]  Drama T
The story of an idealistic engineer-trainee and his experiences in teaching a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London's East End.

Denzel Washington

Denzel Washington by Chris Nickson  B Washington

 American Gangster [DVD]  Drama A
In 1970s America , a detective works to bring down the drug empire of Frank Lucas, a heroin kingpin from Manhattan , who is smuggling the drug into the country from the Far East .

The Bone Collector [VHS]  Thriller B
Two cops on the trail of a brutal killer. They must see as one, they must act as one, they must think as one, before the next victim falls.

Glory [VHS]  War G
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates

The Great Debaters [DVD]  Drama G
A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas . In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.

Shah Rukh Khan

King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema
by Anupama Chopra  B Khan

 Devdas [DVD]  Foreign D

After his wealthy family prohibits him from marrying the woman he loves, Devdas Mukherjee's life spirals further and further out of control as he takes up alcohol and a life of vice to numb the pain. A grand saga of timeless love.

 Dil to Pagal Hai [VHS]  Foreign D
The intertwined love-lives of a modern day troupe of dancers.

Dilwale Dulhenia Le Jayenge [DVD]  Foreign D
Raj is a rich, carefree, happy-go-lucky young man born in England . Simran, also born there, has a father who is very strict about adherence to Indian values. The two meet on a month long Eurotrip, and what began as pranks and fun and games, ends in love. But by the time they realize it, it is already too late, as Simran has left for India to be married to her childhood betrothed. Raj follows her with a mission, to claim his lady love under the noses of her whole family.

Kuch kuch Hota Hai [VHS]  Foreign K
Rahul and Anjali are best friends at college. Anjali realizes that she has fallen for Rahul but she's too late because Rahul has already fallen for Tina. Heartbroken, Anjali leaves college and returns to her faraway home. Tina and Rahul marry and have a daughter, but Tina passes away. Her daughter is named after Anjali and as she grows up she reads her mother's letters (one on each birthday). Through them she learns that her mother (Tina) knew that Anjali was in love with Rahul, and vows to bring them together again.

Om Shanti Om [DVD]  Foreign O
He was a bit player. She was a star. For some dreams, one lifetime is not enough.