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1182) American dreams
Author
Series
Crown family saga volume 2
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
GoodKnight Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This fresh look at Hollywood's Queen of Screwball, Carole Lombard, presents a first-ever examination of the events that led to the shocking flight mishap that took her life on the side of a Nevada mountain in 1942. It also provides a day-by-day account ofthe struggles of Lombard's husband, Clark Gable, and other family, friends, and fans to cope with the tragedy. In effect, having just completed the first sale of war bonds and stamps in the nation...
Author
Publisher
ItBooks
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The chopper-riding hippie outlaw in Easy Rider. The prophetic madman in the jungle in Apocalypse Now. The terrifying psychopath in Blue Velvet. The kid gone wrong in Rebel Without a Cause. Dennis Hopper has been described as a rebel, an icon, an addict plagued by demons, and one of the most important champions of the pop-art movement. Friend to Warhol, muse to David Lynch, mentor to Sean Penn, champion of Ice-T. The life and career of Dennis Hopper...
1190) Marlene
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A historical tale inspired by the life of Marlene Dietrich traces her rise from the seedy worlds of Weimar Berlin's cabarets and drag balls to the lush film studios of golden-era Hollywood, where she becomes entangled in a series of stormy love affairs.
1192) Audrey Hepburn
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the life of Audrey Hepburn looking at her youth, career as an actress, relationships, and philanthropic activities.
1193) Starring Miss Darlene
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Much to her surprise, a young girl's on-stage mishaps are reviewed favorably by the theater critic.
Author
Publisher
Andscape
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"WELCOME TO A COMEDIC TRIP THROUGH THE LIFE OF ONE OF THE COUNTRY'S MOST EXCITING COMEDIANS. MEET DULCÉ SLOAN, WHOSE LIFE HAS BEEN AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY FILLED WITH LESSONS AND LAUGHTER. IN ADDITION TO DOING STAND-UP AROUND THE WORLD, DULCÉ IS A TRAINED ACTOR, SINGER, AND HAS BEEN A CORRESPONDENT ON THE DAILY SHOW ON COMEDY CENTRAL. Dulcé Sloan's first memoir is organized into essays from her life. From a childhood moving between cities, starting...
1195) Sunset Boulevard
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Pursued by creditors, Joe swerves into a driveway of a seemingly abandoned Sunset Boulevard mansion. He finds Norma, an ex-screen queen dreaming of a dramatic comeback and her husband/servant living there. She takes a fancy to Joe and, learning that he is a scriptwriter, persuades him to help her with her comeback screenplay. Being broke he accepts. He falls in love with a young script reader, but Norma breaks up their romance, setting tragedy into...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An intimate look at movie star Steve McQueen's reckless life of fast cars, women, and drugs all the way up to his dramatic life-change and terminal cancer diagnosis. Join Greg Laurie as he takes a cross-country drive in his 1968 Highland Green Ford Mustang 390 GT through the canyons of Malibu, the alleys of Hollywood, the wide and open roads of the Midwest, and the streets of New York as he traces the woolly geography of actor Steve McQueen's life,...
1198) Sweet sorrow
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From the best-selling author of One Day comes a bittersweet and brilliantly funny coming-of-age tale about the heart-stopping thrill of first love-and how just one summer can forever change a life. A man on the brink of marriage reevaluates his teen experiences with first love, a milestone that was complicated by his father’s depression, an unorthodox newcomer and a summer theater troupe performance of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet."--
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In the decades following his death, many of those who knew James Dean best--actors, directors, friends, lovers (both men and women), photographers, and Hollywood columnists--shared stories of their first-person experiences with him in interviews and in the articles and autobiographies they wrote. Their recollections of Dean became lost in fragile back issues of movie magazines and newspapers and in out-of-print books that are extremely hard to find....
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