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Sarah Bernhardt in Performance: 2-Disc digitally restored collection. Thrill to the actual voice of Sarah performing 18 dramatic recitations of touching poems and excerpts from her most famous plays. The recordings were originally acoustical recordings made on wax cylinders. On some of the tracks, there is slight, embedded surface noise that cannot be removed without damaging her voice, but on each track, Sarah's voice rings out loud and clear. Her power and unique vibrato is unlike any voice you have ever heard, and is everything you have ever read about.

Plus French/English Translations:  All 18 of Sarah's recorded recitations detailed in side-by-side French/English translations of the scripts are included in a MS Word document that can be read on any computer or printed out on paper..

Plus Sarah Bernhardt 101 Photo CD Album: 101 digitally restored photos depicting her personal life, her stage roles, and her film performances. Jpeg images that are perfect for printing, e-mailing, or watching as a "slide show" on a computer or DVD player that reads picture discs and displays them on a TV screen.

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Laurette Taylor in Peg O' My Heart: America's great stage star in a rare, live performance of Peg O' My Heart, a new, digitally restored CD of the only recorded performance of her most famous play. This production features a full cast, music, and sound effects. It is the delightful tale of a duck out of water and the staid, English household turned topsy-turvy by the glib and witty girl.

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John Barrymore Performs Selections from Hamlet and Twelfth Night: America's great stage and film star is on 12 recordings of stunning interpretations from Shakespeare's plays. On each recording, his voice is edged with power and thrilling characterizations, a rare record of the most dynamic Hamlet of our age. These were originally produced on 78 rpm records. There is some embedded surface noise that cannot be removed without damaging the voices, but on each track, the voices ring out loud and clear.

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John Barrymore in Selections from Richard III and Macbeth: America's most-admired actor performing chilling scenes with a full cast in Richard III. He also performs selections from Shakespeare's Macbeth, and on each recording, his powerful voice touches seldom-heard depths of emotion, and his characterizations are unforgettable.

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Lionel Barrymore in the Holiday classic, A Christmas Carol. New digitally restored CD of the timeless tale by Charles Dickens. In this production featuring a full cast, music, and sound effects, Barrymore portrays Ebenezer Scrooge, the most miserable, miserly, and mean character as ever lived, who is haunted by three ghosts and forced to face his horrible fate. He awakens on Christmas morning to find that he is alive . . . and that being really alive for the first time is a joyous thing. This timeless classic is great to listen to with the entire family at home or while traveling by car on Holiday vacations.

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Silent Stars Speak: The Lost Recordings: 21 actual voices of the great stars of the silent film era. These rare treasures prove that these stars were eloquently vocal, and in performances, as expressive with their voices as they were with their faces on film.

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Stars on Broadway in the 19th Century: New digitally restored CD. Thrill to the actual voices of famous actors and actresses from the past in excerpts from their most memorable plays. Hear Ellen Terry, Sir Herbert Tree, Joseph Jefferson, Thomasso Salvini, Sarah Bernhardt, John Barrymore, Lewis Waller, Constant Coquelin, Alexander Moissi, Fred Terry, Julia Neilson, and Sir Henry Irving. 

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Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard: A stunning live performance of Sunset Boulevard. New digitally restored CD. The classic story of a mad silent film star and a down-and-out writer caught in the creepy labyrinth of her delusions of grandeur. This live, on-stage reprise of the renowned motion picture captures the intriguing, haunting imagination of the story of two souls lost in a whirlpool of Hollywood dreams. Co-starring William Holden.

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Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard and The Last Dutchess:

A stunning live performance of Sunset Boulevard. This is the same digitally restored version as above, but with the additional radio drama, The Last Dutchess, another eerily similar tale of a faded star in her last, desperate attempt to regain a foothold on the shaky pedestal of stardom.  

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Lillian Gish in Marry for Murder: The great star of stage and film in a live performance of Marry For Murder. New Digitally Restored CD of the spine-tingling radio drama that frightened our nation. Lillian Gish, America’s leading silent movie actress, paints an unforgettable character portrait with her voice alone, proving that she was as eloquent with her voice as she was with her face in motion pictures. In this gripping tale, mystery, shrouded by clouds of fog, veils the true identity of a lurking murderer until the startling revelation unfolds in a dramatic twist that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

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Jane Cowl in Madame X: A live performance on a new digitally restored CD of the haunting tale of a sinful woman,  the desperate measures to which she resorts in order to protect her only son, and the tragic price she pays for her sins. Broadway legend Jane Cowl paints an unforgettable character portrait with her voice alone in this stunning production that features a full cast, music, and sound effects. 

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Agnes Moorehead in Sorry, Wrong Number: A live performance on a new digitally restored CD of the chilling radio drama that made an entire generation afraid to answer a telephone in the middle of the night. Agnes Moorehead’s unforgettable, award-winning, tour-de-force characterization of an invalid woman terrorized by a voice on the crossed wires of an unexpected telephone call was performed six times over three decades. This is the original performance. Warning: do not listen to this alone.

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Tallulah Bankhead in All About Eve: Hear a mesmerizing live performances on this new digitally restored CD. The classic story of an aging star and a plotting, ambitious upstart is given the full treatment with Tallulah's memorable performance. She is brilliant in her characterization. Playing close to her heart since the story was inspired by an incident in her own life, she breathes genuine fire, pathos, and wit. With THAT VOICE, so unique in its tone and timbre, she moves the live audience spellbound by her laughter, tears, and biting sense of humor. This performance seems to many to be better than the renowned motion picture, and hearing it will make you feel like you have a front row seat to witness a theater legend in the prime of her talent..

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Tallulah Bankhead in Dark Victory: A magnificent live performance on this new digitally restored CD. This is the moving, realistic tale of a vibrant, young woman caught in the horrible clasp of a deadly disease, who finds true love only to lose her life in the midst of her chilling battle to survive. This live recording captures Tallulah's unforgettable moments, her inspiring bravery, and a heart-rending conclusion that is guaranteed to prime tears from any audience. She moves the listener by the depths of emotion expressed with THAT VOICE of hers, and the other cast members are equally impressive. In this production, Tallulah reprises her role that was honed on the Broadway stage, and seems to many to be better than the famous motion picture.

SPECIAL ADDED BONUS TRACK:

Tallulah Bankhead singing "I'll Be Seeing You" with full orchestra.

 

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Helen Hayes in The Glass Menagerie: Experience rare dramatic power in this live performance of The Glass Menagerie. New digitally restored CD. This production co-stars Karl Malden and Montgomery Clift. The story is based on Tennessee William's masterpiece about an aging southern belle, her crippled daughter, her rebellious son, and a Gentleman Caller, who accidentally shatters their fragile world of fading hopes and lonely dreams. A rare, live performance of unforgettable power, based on the original London cast that was directed by John Gielgud and produced immediately after Laurette Taylor made theater history with her original role in the Broadway production.

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W. C. Fields in Poppy:  Our great comic star in a rare live performance of Poppy. New digitally restored CD.  W. C. Fields in his show-stopping, Broadway role as Eustace McGargle, a  fast-talking, super-slick, and slightly befuddled charlatan with a heart of gold that can only be seen by his daughter, Poppy. The role is so identified with Fields that he played variations on it for the rest of his life. After immortalizing the role in a silent film for director D. W. Griffith, he reprised the role in a talking film for director Eddie Sutherland. Soon after, Fields gathered with a new cast to again reprise the role on radio in a slightly abridged version directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It is this live performance that has been captured on this new CD.

Bonus Track 1 features W. C. Fields in a hilarious live performance of The Temperance Lecture.

Bonus Track 2 features W. C. Fields and a full cast in a riotous live performance of Promotions Unlimited.

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Orson Wells and Agnes Moorehead in Dracula:  This truly horrifying dramatization is based closely on Bram Stoker’s original book, and follows the journey of Johnathan Harker, an innocent man caught in the evil lair of the undead. When Harker is lured into the web of a mysterious Count hell-bent on claiming his soul, nothing less than a race against time can save him and his fiancé from the clutches of doom.

Agnes Moorehead and Orson Wells, along with other actors from the Mercury Theater, perform a spine-tingling, live dramatization of this classic horror story. New digitally restored CD. Full cast, music, and sound effects.

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The complete, original broadcast of Frankenstein:  This unusual radio adaptation closely follows the original story by Mary Shelley, and remains one of the most startling story creations ever attempted. The eerie tale of Dr. Frankenstein, and the horror of his out-of-control monster is given the full treatment in this original performance. In this adaptation,  a surprising twist leaves the listener spellbound with discomfort, and fearful of the eventual outcome. Full cast, music, and sound effects.

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Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in Pygmalion: New Digitally Restored CD of the live broadcast of the American premier of George Bernard Shaw's touching comedy. Two legends of the Broadway theater appear together in this well-known story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, who makes a bet with Colonel Pickering, his friend, that he can successfully pass off Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl, as a refined society lady by teaching her how to speak with an upper class accent and training her in etiquette. Full cast, music, and sound effects. Real life husband and wife acting team, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, take great delight in verbally sparring with each other. Join the audience with a front row seat to this play that is often hilarious, yet quite touching.

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