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(0)Gene Wilder
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The beloved actor and screenwriter Gene Wilder's first novel, My French Whore, set during World War I, delicately and elegantly explores a most unusual romance. It's almost the end of the war and Paul Peachy, a young railway employee and amateur actor in Milwaukee, realizes his marriage is one-sided. He enlists, and ships off to France. Peachy instantly realizes how out of his depth he is-and never more so than when he is captured. Risking everything,...
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Told in his own words, a very personal story from the star of many beloved and classic comedies, including Young Frankenstein, The Producers, and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Gene Wilder is one of the great comic actors who defined the 1970s and 1980s in movies. From his work with Woody Allen, to the rich group of movies he made with Mel Brooks, to his partnership on screen with Richard Pryor, Wilder's performances are still discussed and...
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The beloved actor and screenwriter's second novel, set in 1903, stars a young concert violinist named Jeremy Webb, who one day goes from accomplished adagios with the Cleveland Orchestra to having a complete breakdown on stage. If he hadn't poured a glass of water down the throat of a tuba, maybe he wouldn't have been sent to a health resort in Badenweiler, Germany. But, it's in that serene place that Jeremy meets Clara Mulpas, whom he tries his hardest...
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The actor and novelist answers this eternal question twelve ways, in stories that explore our most complicated emotion
This is a winning collection from an author writing on his favorite topic: love. Each emotionally involving story illuminates a different kind of love: star-crossed, intense, needy, eternal, unrequited, even comical. Gene Wilder's protagonists will be instantly recognizable to his fans: men and women who stumble into relationships...
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From the author of Kiss Me Like a Stranger and My French Whore, comes this romantic, dramatic fiction set during World War II.
Beloved actor and author Gene Wilder's newest novella, SOMETHING TO REMEMBER YOU BY, begins on Christmas, 1944. In a foxhole in Bastogne, Belgium, the innocent yet charmingly clever protagonist, Corporal Tom Cole, is injured. Wilder moves the action to a romantic wartime London with dimly lit blackout-compliant restaurants...
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The once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between star Gene Wilder and director Leonard Nimoy resulted in the charmingly haphazard and anachronistic Funny About Love. Wilder plays political cartoonist Duffy Bergman, who falls in love with much-younger Meg (Christine Lahti) during a book-signing session. Once married, the old "clash of careers" bugaboo arises: Meg wants to continue working as a chef in a fancy New York restaurant, while Duffy would prefer...
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MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
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English
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Romantic comedy about Teddy, a shy married executive, who begins to have "emotional infidelity" after glimpsing a seductive stranger wearing a red dress. Teddy sets out to determine just how an ordinary man meets such an extraordinary woman
10) Hanky panky
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Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
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1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
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English
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Michael Jordan, (Gene Wilder), is an innocent bystander turned victim. Kate Hellman, (Gilda Radner), falls in love with him while looking for her brother's murderers
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
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English
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Candy manufacturer Willy Wonka has a contest and hides five golden tickets in five of his scrumptious candy bars. All five ticket winners get a free tour of the mysterious Wonka factory, as well as a lifetime supply of Wonka candy. Four of the children are nasty brats who are punished by Willie Wonka with various diabolical, but funny, methods. Only Charlie, a likeable child, wins the heart of the manufacturer
12) Blazing saddles
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©1997
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The new sheriff and his sidekick, retired gunfighter Waco Kid, protect the town of Rock Ridge from the men who want to run the railroad through the town.
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Inecom Entertainment Company
Pub. Date
c2005
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1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Narrated by Gene Wilder, this documentary brings the Chicago World's Fair to life. Experience the world of 1893 through a cinematic visit to Chicago's Columbian Exposition where viewers are immersed in one of the world's biggest extravaganzas
17) The producers
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MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
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English
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A legendary producer and his mild-mannered accountant face catastrophe when their play unexpectedly becomes a success
19) The Frisco Kid
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006, c1979
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1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
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English
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A Polish rabbi sets out to lead a synagogue in California and must make it through the Wild West to get there
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2024]
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The loving tribute to Gene Wilder celebrates his life and legacy as the comic genius behind an extraordinary string of film roles, from his first collaboration with Mel Brooks in The Producers to the enigmatic title role in the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory to his inspired on-screen partnership with Richard Pryor in movies like Silver Streak. It is Illustrated by a bevy of touching and hilarious clips and outtakes, never-before-seen...