Olga Baclanova
1) Freaks
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance."--Container.
2) Claudia
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Dorothy McGuire shines in her stage role adaptation of the Broadway hit Claudia. The title character's young bride ways lead to an array of life lessons including babies, the passing of loved ones, and compromises with a stubborn husband.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
None
Description
Gwynplaine is doomed to live life wearing a perpetual grin. Carved on his face because his father, Lord Clancharlie, had offended England's king. Gwynplaine grows up alongside the beautiful but blind Dea and they fall in love. Queen Anne, meanwhile, has ascended the throne and when she learns that the femme fatale, Duchess Josiana is in possession of the Lord's estates, she decrees that the Duchess must marry Gwynplaine, the rightful heir. Gwynplaine...
Series
Criterion collection volume 531
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Three-Blu-ray special edition.
Language
None
Description
"Vienna-born, New York-raised Josef von Sternberg directed some of the most influential, stylish dramas ever to come out of Hollywood. Though best known for his star-making collaborations with Marlene Dietrich, von Sternberg began his career during the final years of the silent era, dazzling audiences and critics with his films' dark visions and innovative cinematography. The titles in this collection, made on the cusp of the sound age, are three...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1194
Pub. Date
[2023].
Edition
Two-DVD Special Edition.
Language
English
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...
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