George White's Scandals of '35 - DVD

George White's Scandals was a Broadway sensation, a series of revues bursting with comedy, music and long-stemmed American beauties. George White's Scandals the movie celebrates that tradition with knockabout comic Joan Davis and song-and-joke man Jack Haley playing Scandals stars and lovebirds separated by Haley's sourpuss sis (Margaret Hamilton, the Wicked Witch to Haley's Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz). They provide the zaniness, Gene

Lisa Kudrow is "luminous"* and Damon Wayans "gives a performance of immense charm"** in this hilarious film about a culture clash between a hip-hop artist and a born-to-shop socialite. Marci Feld (Kudrow) doesn't know about rap...she thinks it's what salespeople do in the ritzy boutiques where she shops. But everything changes after rapper Dr. S (Wayans) releases a controversial CD for the record label owned by Marci's ailing father (Ri

Young Eddie (Eddie Cantor), amateur historian of Ancient Rome and full-time resident of West Rome, Oklahoma, finds himself facing uncertain exile after crossing the ruthless oligarchs that run his town. Declaring that such corrupt shenanigans would never have been tolerated in the Rome of yore, Eddie soon collides with a cart after his banishment and is rendered unconscious. Transported across aeons in his dream state, Eddie, now "Oedip