Show People - DVD

Julie Hampton (Lucille Ball) can tote a lunch pail and carry a tune. She's a Broadway star who's joined the Rosie the Riveters at Morgan Shipyards. Working with her is aspiring playwright "Swanee" Swanson, who insists Julie toil among the yard workers before she stars in the play he's written about them.

Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts,

When Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) a widowed and self-absorbed professor falls for his attractive former student (Sarah Jessica Parker), his all-too-predictable life suddenly turns sunny-side up. That is until his freeloading brother (Thomas Haden Church) and his sharp-tongued overachieving daughter (Ellen Page) speak up, making "chaos" the word of the day. Delight in the clarity, comedy and conundrums of the lovable yet dysfunctional family in this lighthearted comedy.