Harry Stradling
1) Funny girl
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A musical film that follows the early career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice.
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Dorian Gray is an innocent young man who has his portrait painted by a close friend. Soon after he falls under the influence of amoral Lord Henry Wotton. Dorian soon jilts his fiancee, which leads to her suicide. This is the start of a life of increasing debauchery. Dorian realizes that the outward signs of this are apparent only in the portrait. Eventually the picture, secreted in his childhood playroom, becomes almost hideous to behold. But Dorian...
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After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella Kowalski and Stella's husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed by and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money. He sets about discovering everything else he...
4) Auntie Mame
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In 1928, a 10-year-old boy goes to live with his eccentric, sophisticated aunt, a lady who throws a party for any occasion or non-occasion that comes to mind.
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In the bustling streets of New York, gambler Nathan Detroit faces mounting pressure from the police, led by Lieutenant Brannigan, as he seeks a location for an illicit craps game. Struggling with a 14-year engagement to nightclub singer Miss Adelaide, Nathan concocts a high-stakes bet with gambler Sky Masterson: to woo the reserved missionary, Sergeant Sarah Brown, and secure funds for the game. As the intricate plan unfolds, relationships intertwine,...
6) My fair lady
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Arrogant, irascible, and misogynistic professor of phonetics Henry Higgins believes that the accent and tone of one's voice determines a person's prospects in society. He boasts to a new acquaintance, Colonel Hugh Pickering--also an expert in phonetics--that he could teach any woman to speak so "properly" that he could pass her off as a duchess at an embassy ball. He chooses as an example a sassy, young working-class London flower seller from the...