Tue, Jun 22, 1999
The young actress from England won an Academy Award at the age of 14 for her role in Pollyanna. But it was her real-life role that brought her the most publicity. Her fans, who adored the ingénue she played on-screen, were outraged when she fell in love and married a man who was decades older. Archival film clips chronicle her movie roles, and her marriage to director Roy Boulting. Interviews with family, friends, and colleagues reveal the private side of the actress with the Polyanne smile.
Wed, Jan 13, 1999
Documentary, released by the World Wrestling Federation, about the late wrestling superstar Andre the Giant, portraying his childhood in a small French village, his rise to fame as a professional wrestler, and his slow physical decline and eventual death in 1993. With commentaries by Vince McMahon, Classy Freddie Blassie, Killer Kowalski and Gorilla Monsoon, as well as Andre's brother and friends.
Tue, Apr 27, 1999
Peter Graves narrates this account of the life and career of William Franklin Beedle, Jr., from his 1918 birth, in O'Fallon, Illinois, to his formative years in Monrovia and South Pasadena, California, where William enters Pasadena Playhouse to begin his acting career for which he would later become famous as screen star William Holden.