John Van Druten

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After All
Iată, trăim (Behold, We Live)
Bell, Book and Candle: Gillian Holroyd is a witch who is certain that through her black arts she can get anything she wants, including the publisher in the neighboring apartment, Shep Henderson. He promptly knocks on her door and falls in love with her and in no time they are set to be married. The happy arrangement is spoiled when Gillian fights with her brother and aunt, who are also witches, and they spill the beans to Shep.
Chance Acquaintance
Diversion
Flori de pădure (Flowers of the Forest)
Gertie Maude
Hollywood Holiday
I Am a Camera: Sitting in his room in Fräulein Schneider's flat in Berlin, the young writer Christopher Isherwood records his impressions of the city. Although Berlin is disturbed by ominous Nazi rioting, Isherwood notes, “I am a camera, with its shutter open, quite passive.” Some of his carefully nurtured passivity disappears when he is introduced to Sally Bowles an attractive, flamboyant singer at a local night club, and they strike up an immediate friendship. Neither Sally's insistence that Isherwood never ask about her past nor her becoming pregnant by another man seriously affects their relationship. What does come between them is the growing political turmoil. Isherwood elects to leave Berlin, but Sally, as apolitical as she is amoral, chooses to remain. Based on Isherwood's autobiographical Berlin Stories, the play was perceived by many critics as a loosely strung together but theatrically effective series of scenes. To most playgoers its main attraction was Harris's incandescent performance. The play served as the basis for the 1966 musical Cabaret.
Îmi amintesc de mama (I Remember Mama): The film begins with eldest daughter Katrin completing the last lines of her autobiographical novel. As she reminisces about her family life, we flashback to 1910, where the first of a series of vignettes finds Marta Hanson preparing the weekly budget with assistance from her husband Lars, daughters Katrin, Christine and Dagmar, and son Nels, who announces his desire to attend high school. Each family member offers to make a financial sacrifice to contribute to the boy's education.Soon after, Marta's sister Trina arrives, announces she is marrying undertaker Peter Thorkelson, and implores Marta to break the news to their sisters Sigrid and Jenny. As Trina feared, the two laugh upon hearing the news, but when Marta threatens to reveal embarrassing anecdotes about them, the women agree to accept their sister's decision.When Jonathan Hyde, the Hansons' educated but impoverished lodger, reads A Tale of Two Cities aloud for the family, all of them, especially aspiring writer Katrin, are deeply moved by the story. Later, the family is visited by Marta's gruff and domineering but soft-hearted Uncle Chris and his common law wife Jessie Brown. When Chris discovers youngest daughter Dagmar is severely ill with mastoiditis, he insists on taking her to the hospital. Because they disapprove of Jessie, Sigrid and Jenny attempt to stop him, but he bullies his way past them with Dagmar and her mother following behind.Dagmar's operation is a success, but her mother Marta is prohibited from seeing her by the hospital staff. At home, she becomes increasingly distressed about the separation from her child, whom she promised she would see as soon as she awakened, and she returns to the hospital where, disguised as a member of the housekeeping staff, she sneaks into Dagmar's ward and sings a Norwegian lullaby to her.When a recovered Dagmar returns home, she learns her cat, Uncle Elizabeth, is very ill. Despite Dagmar's belief in her mother's powers, Marta feels helpless to save the wounded cat and sends Nels to buy some chloroform so she can put it to sleep. The following morning she is astonished when Dagmar walks in with a sleepy but very alive and apparently cured cat.Mr. Hyde moves out, leaving a check for his long overdue rent and his entire collection of classic books. The family's joy at their financial windfall vanishes when they discover their lodger had no bank account and the check has no value. Sigrid and Jenny are furious about the man's deceit, but Marta declares his valuable gift of literature is payment enough.Katrin brags to Christine that their mother is going to buy her the dresser set she has long admired as a graduation present. Her sister tells her Marta is planning to give her their grandmother's brooch as a gift, so Katrin is surprised when she receives the desired dresser set instead. As she is about to leave to perform in the school's production of The Merchant of Venice, Katrin is informed that her mother traded with the storekeeper her beloved heirloom for the gift Katrin wanted. Distraught by the news, the girl performs badly in the play, and later presents her mother with the brooch after trading back the dresser set. Katrin's father presents her with her first cup of coffee, which she had been told she could drink once she was grown. Before giving it to her, mother adds a healthy amount of cream.Marta learns Uncle Chris is near death, and she takes Katrin to say goodbye to him at his ranch. He reveals he has no money to leave his niece because he had long been donating most of his income to help young children with leg or foot problems walk again, including Arne, Sigrid's son. After enjoying a final drink with his niece and Jessie, Uncle Chris dies.Katrin is dejected when she receives her tenth literary rejection letter. Determined to bolster her confidence, Marta takes some of her stories to famed author and gourmand Florence Dana Moorhead and convinces her to read them in exchange for her prized meatball recipe. Marta returns home and advises her daughter that Moorhead feels the girl has talent and should write about what she knows best. Marta urges Katrin to write a story about Papa. When the girl's story is accepted for publication, she is overjoyed to be paid $500. After announcing some of the money will go towards the purchase of the winter coat Marta always has wanted, Katrin confesses her story is not about her father but is titled Mama and the Hospital. She begins to read it to her family, and its introduction concludes with the line, "But first and foremost, I remember Mama."
I've Got Sixpence
Leave Her to Heaven
London Wall
Make Way for Lucia
Most of the Game
Old Acquaintance
Sea Fever
Solitaire
Somebody Knows
The Damask Cheek
Linie de rudenie (The Distaff Side)
The Distaff Side
The Druid Circle
Eu și regele (The King and I)
The Mermaids Singing: Across the city of Bradfield, men are being kidnapped, horrifically tortured and killed by a mysterious psychopath, who then dumps their mutilated corpses in areas frequented by the gay community. Dr. Tony Hill, a criminal psychologist with sexual problems of his own, is called on for assistance in the investigation by D.I Carol Jordan, who will soon become the object of his repressed desires. However, all thoughts of lust are deftly swept aside as he delves deeper into the case, finding himself up against one of the most intelligent, perverse and unrelentingly sadistic killers of his career. (wikipedia)
The Return Half
Întoarcerea soladatului (The Return of the Soldier)
Vocea broscuţei testoase (The Voice of the Turtle): The story begins on a Friday afternoon in early April as aspiring actress Sally Middleton has just finished moving into her new apartment in the East Sixties. Even though she has just left her home in Joplin, Missouri for life in the big city, the married Broadway producer she has been seeing is quick to dump her when he begins to feel she is ruining their relationship by falling in love with him. Heartbroken, Sally confides her uncertainties in her friend Olive Lashbrooke, a promiscuous, worldly girl, questioning the practicality of the lessons in chasteness she received as a child and wondering if she is alone in her passion, or if other women share these sensations. Unbeknownst to Sally, Olive has a date planned with Bill Page, a Sergeant in the United States Army who happens to be on leave for the weekend, and she has arranged for him to meet her at Sally's new apartment. At the last minute, however, Olive is asked on a date by another man, and she decides to stand up Bill for what she considers to be the better offer. Bill, still bitter over a love affair gone wrong from five years past, finds himself yet again hurt by love, and to make matters worse he has no hotel reservation, nor is there a nearby friend with whom he can stay. Devoid of any alternative, the two strangers find themselves bound together in Sally's apartment for the weekend, where they are forced to confront their fears of fidelity and their ever-growing interest in one another. (wikipedia)
Există întotdeauna Julieta (There's Always Juliet)
Young Woodley