New on Blu-ray: GRAND HOTEL (1932) Starring Greta Garbo, John Barrymore & Joan Crawford

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Product Description: A drama dealing with the interpersonal relationships of a variety of people living in a Berlin hotel.

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DARK VICTORY (1939) - Blu-ray Reissue of Classic Oscar-Nominated Melodrama Starring Bette Davis

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Product Description: Being born to boundless privilege didn't shield socialite Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) from the shattering diagnosis of a brain tumor. After being treated by handsome surgeon Frederick Steele (George Brent), their professional relationship blossomed into something more... but fate would tragically provide other plans. Classic weepie also stars Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan, and Henry Travers.

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New on Blu-ray: The Marx Brothers in A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (1935)

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Product Description: A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.

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New on Blu-ray: NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947) - Criterion Collection

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Product Description: Tyrone Power stars in one of the most haunting and perverse film noirs of the 1940s Darkness lurks behind the bright lights of a traveling carnival in one of the most haunting and perverse film noirs of the 1940s. Adapted from the scandalous and renowned book by William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley gave Tyrone Power a chance to subvert his matinee-idol image with a ruthless performance as Stan Carlisle, a small-time carny whose unctuous charm propels him to fame as a charlatan spiritualist, but whose unchecked ambition leads him down a path of moral degradation and self-destruction. Although its strange, sordid atmosphere shocked contemporary audiences, this long difficult-to-see reflection of postwar angst has now taken its place as one of the defining noirs of its era—a fate-fueled downward slide into existential oblivion.

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R.I.P. Joan Fontaine (1917–2013)

Today we have lost another Hollywood legend. Academy Award-winning actress Joan Fontaine has passed away at the age of 96. She is best known for her roles in Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers "Rebecca" (1940) and "Suspicion" (1941). Fontaine was nominated for the Academy Award for the former and won the coveted award for the latter. Two years later she was once again nominated for an Oscar for her part in Edmund Goulding's musical melodrama "The Constant Nymph". She has also starred in classics such as "Gunga Din" (1939), "The Women" (1939), Jane Eyre (1943), "Ivanhoe" (1952), "The Bigamist" (1953), "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" (1956) and "Island in the Sun" (1957). Joan Fontaine is survived by her daughter, Debbie Dozier.

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