TV Guide: George Bernard Shaw

Video: The Word - Absinthetinence

Colbert Nation — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500

America's youth: stay away from absinthe. It can damage your liver and kidneys and make you paint strange things.

Video: Pygmalion (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Queen of Sheba

TCM — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Professor Higgins (Leslie Howard) and Col. Pickering (Scott Sunderland) discover each other while practicing their craft on Eliza (Wendy Hiller) in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, 1939.

Video: Pygmalion (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Professor Higgins

TCM — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Linguist Professor Higgins (Leslie Howard) demonstrates to Eliza (Wendy Hiller) and bystanders what he's up to in the 1939 Gabriel Pascal production of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.

Video: Pygmalion (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Eliza

TCM — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Eliza Doolittle (Wendy Hiller) is introduced along with a crowd departing the theater, observed by Professor Higgins (Leslie Howard), in Gabriel Pascal's 1939 production of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.

Video: Pygmalion (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Opening Credits

TCM — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Opening title credits for the independently-produced Pygmalion, 1939, starring Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller and endorsed by the playwright George Bernard Shaw.

Video: Pygmalion (1939) -- (Movie Clip) The Angels Will Weep

TCM — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Goaded by Pickering (Scott Sunderland) and Mrs. Pearce (Jean Cadell), Higgins (Leslie Howard) makes his formal offer to Eliza (Wendy Hiller) in the 1939 production of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.

Video: Saint Joan

Amazon Video on Demand — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500

An all-star cast brings the dramatic story of Joan of Arc to the big screen. A French teenage girl is inspired by divine intervention to lead the King's armies to victory. However, jealous rivals turn her devout belief and miraculous accomplishments against her, sentencing her to be burned at the stake for heresy and setting the stage for her sainthood. Based upon the play by George Bernard Shaw and adapted for the screen by Oscar-nominee Graham Greene ("The Fallen Idol"). Starring Oscar-nominees and Golden Globe-winners Richard Widmark ("Kiss of Death") and Richard Todd ("The Hasty Heart") and Oscar and Golden Globe-winner Sir John Gielgud ("Arthur," "War and Remembrance"). Marks the feature premiere of Jean Seberg ("Airport"). Directed by legendary Oscar-nominee Otto Preminger ("Laura").

Video: Saint Joan

Amazon Video on Demand — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Video: Grandstand

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Oscar Wilde, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, George Bernard Shaw and the future Edward VII exchange epigrams at an evening party; mechanical brain surgery fails to dramatically affect a woman's mentality.

Video: George Bernhard Shaw on Pacifism

History — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

George Bernard Shaw was well known for his popular play Pygmalion, and also Heartbreak House. This Irish playwright, critic, and socialist activist incorporated the issues he found in capitalist society into his plays. He wrote over forty plays.

Video: This Day in History: Shaw Born

Biography — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Playwright George Bernard Shaw was born on July 16, 1856 in Dublin, Ireland. Even at the age of 94, Shaw was writing comedies; yet even he would dispute how old he really was.

Video: George Bernard Shaw: Body of Work

Biography — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500

George Bernard Shaw (1856 -- 1950); playwright, novelist, critic. Shaw's first stage successes, Arms and the Man and Candida, both of them "pleasant" plays, were produced in 1894. The success only grew from there.

Video: Morning Glory -- (Movie Clip) Mr. Easton

TCM — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Eva Lovelace (Katharine Hepburn) relates a remarkable tale of correspondence with George Bernard Shaw in her first meeting with Mr. Easton (Adolphe Menjou) and Joe Sheridan (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) in Morning Glory, 1933.

Video: PEN WORLD CONGRESS - Moscow 2,000

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

PEN, the professional writers association, with over 15,000 members in 130 Centers worldwide, founded in 1921 by George Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy and others, was forbidden in the former Soviet Union. In May 2000, despite protests by several Russian writers who feared it would serve to endorse the war in Chechnya, PEN held its World Congress for the first time in Moscow - attended by 200 delegates from 70 Centers. Aware of its historical significance, Robert Carl Cohen, whose documentaries include INSIDE RED CHINA-1957, INSIDE EAST GERMANY-1959 & THREE CUBANS-1964, produced this video record of that six day event. Highlights include the entire opening address by Nobel Laureate Gunter Grass, (In both German & an English translation) author of THE TIN DRUM, CAT & MOUSE, and other best-selling novels, & an exclusive interview with ex-Russian Navy Officer Alexander Nikitin. Fully acquitted by the St. Petersburg Court after three years in solitary confinement, Nikitin describes how Russi