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61) Casanova
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Casanova has to begin searching for a wife. He is a womanizer with many conquests and If he cannot show he is living a more respectable life, the Church will throw him out of Venice. He is quickly engaged to Victoria, a woman with a pure reputation. As soon as that is arranged, he meets Francesca, a feminist who hates all he stands for. He pretends to be someone else to get into her good graces, and soon finds out she is engaged to Papprizzio, a man...
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Scope and content: Home movies, in color and black and white, shot by Albert and Mary Jane Werthan, spanning the time frame from 1935 to 1962, showing their children, friends, extended family at play and leisure in Nashville, Tenn. and environs. All scenes are shot outdoors. Includes scenes at the family farm in Williamson County, Tenn. known as Tollgate Farm, mostly of family, recreation, and scenic shots, but including scenes of haying operations...
66) Ten inch hero
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Four friends deal with their love lives and learn about themselves while working in a funky sandwich shop in Santa Cruz, California. Sex, love, ten-inch heroes, and laughs are part of the everyday life in this hip little shop.
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Peter Falk is back in all his rumpled, trenchcoat-wearing glory as police lieutenant Columbo in six captivating two-hour TV movies that aired between 1991-1993. Join the four-time Primetime Emmy winner for 'just one more thing' as he goes after sure-footed suspects with his offbeat wit, wily charm, and dogged persistence.
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Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the complex swimming pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.
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Scope and content: Small scrapbook containing news clippings (some with illustrations), calling cards, snapshots, poetry clippings, and color illustrations of fruit, flowers, or trees. The bulk of the materials, including most of the news clippings, concern the Allen family of Davidson County, Tenn. or their near relatives. An inscription on the inside front cover reads: "This book is for James A. Allen from his aunt Martha Allen Sept. 12, 1910."...
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Scope and content: Small looseleaf scrapbook compiled by Ann May Hardeman Fort (Mrs. Combs Fort) containing newsclippings from 1937-1940, pasted onto plain white sheets of paper. The vast majority of clippings relate to the social life of young women of Nashville from prominent families, including balls, parties, luncheons, and particularly, weddings. Clippings include numerous photographs of young women in wedding or formal social attire, occasionally...
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Scope and content: A collection of recipe sheets produced by the Home Service Department of the Nashville Gas and Heating Company from 1947 to circa 1953. Many recipe sheets have indications that they may have been broadcast on WLAC radio. Most sheets contain recipes, but often they are supplemented with general cooking or household tips, including such topics as how to host parties, holiday preparations, and other subjects, as well as occasional...
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Scope and content: An oral history interview with Catherine Berry Pilcher Avery, conducted on the 9th and 13th of February 1981 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project concentration on Nashville history from 1910 to 1930. Avery discusses the first automobile built in Nashville by George Preston Dorris and his subsequent manufacture of the St. Louis Car and the Dorris Car in St. Louis, Mo.; traveling and transportation...
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Scope and content: The Henry C. Hibbs Papers include approximately 75 cubic feet of materials that document his life and career as a leading architect in Nashville and the South. The collection dates from 1882 to ca. 1988 and contains a variety of materials on the history of Nashville during the first half of the twentieth century. Photographs of Nashville buildings like the American National Bank, the American Trust building, the City Market House,...
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