Shirley Jones

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1970s (2009)

Cast: Shirley MacLaine John Travolta Gwen Verdon Joel Grey Liza Minnelli Ben Vereen   

Tags: Film, TV & Radio Film & Television History 

Length: 150min

Take a trip back to an era when musicals were evolving into something much more than fluffy dance-a-thons with happy endings in this documentary hosted by Academy Award-winner Shirley Jones. Disco and rock were transforming the musical as audiences...

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Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s (2009)

Tags: Film, TV & Radio Film & Television History 

Length: 102min

In this edition of the Hollywood Singing and Dancing documentary series, viewers get a detailed look at the musicals of the 1940's, exploring how Hollywood used the musical as a way to provide much needed escapism during WWII. ~ Cammila Albertson, All...

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Generic Thriller (2009)

Tags: Comedy 

Length: 92min

A handful of characters are in search of a story that suits their liking in this gently surreal comedy from writer and director Scott Sublett. Steven (Daniel Donoghue) teaches college-level theater history and has decided to try writing a play of his...

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Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1960s (2009)

Tags: Film, TV & Radio Film & Television History 

Length: 150min

Discover how the musical flourished after the Hollywood studio system fell as host Shirley Jones leads viewers on a magical journey through the musicals of the 1960s. It was the decade that gave us West Side Story and My Fair Lady, but it was also the...

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Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s (2009)

Tags: Film & Television History Film, TV & Radio 

Length: 104min

This installment in the Hollywood Singing and Dancing documentary series takes a look at the musicals of the 1950's, exploring the boom in Hollywood that took place after the relief and recovery of WWII. Boldly experimenting with new techniques, both...

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Grandma's Boy (2006)

Cast: Adam Sandler   

Tags: Stoner Comedy Gross-Out Comedy Comedy 

Length: 94min

Can the world's oldest adolescent maintain his cool while living with his grandmother? Alex (Allen Covert) is a 35-year-old video-game fanatic who gave up a career in accounting to take a job testing games for Brainasium, the company behind the wildly...

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Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History (2007)

Cast: Shirley Jones   

Tags: Biography Music Film, TV & Radio Film & Television History 

Length: 118min

The documentary Hollywood Singing & Dancing takes an extensive and celebratory look at the history of the Hollywood musical, as well as all singing and dancing on screen. Beginning with the now classic Busby Berkley features, and moving on through the...

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Hidden Places (2006)

Tags: Drama Rural Drama 

Length: 86min

Robert Tate Miller adapts Lynn Austin's best-selling, Christy Award-winning 2001 novel for the screen in the family-friendly drama Hidden Places. Sydney Penny (All My Children) stars as Eliza Wyatt, a Christian widow and mother of two grappling with a...

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Manna From Heaven (2002)

Cast: Louise Fletcher Shelley Duvall Seymour Cassel   

Tags: Family Drama Ensemble Film Comedy 

Length: 119min

Sisters Gabrielle C. and Maria Burton direct the independent comedy Manna From Heaven, written by their mother, Gabrielle B. Burton, and produced by their siblings at Five Sisters Productions. In Buffalo, NY, during the '50s, the wind blows in cash...

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