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942) She's funny that way
Publisher
Red Granite
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A married Broadway director falls for a prostitute-turned-actress and works to help her advance her career.
Author
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Discover the incredible untold story of one of Star Wars' most iconic characters, C-3PO, told by the man who knows him best. "Gloriously witty, keen and spirited" J.J. Abrams, Director of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. "The odds of me ever writing a book were approximately... Oh, never mind. My golden companion worries about such things - I don't. I have indeed now written a book - telling my story, in my voice, not his - recognising that our voices...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
For ten years Kathryn Sermak was at Bette Davis's side--first as an employee, and then as her closest friend--and in Miss D and Me she tells the story of the great star's harrowing but inspiring final years, a story fans have been waiting decades to hear.Miss D and Me is a story of two powerful women, one at the end of her life and the other at the beginning. As Bette Davis aged she was looking for an assistant, but she found something more than that...
948) Garbo
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Award-winning master critic Robert Gottlieb takes a singular and multifaceted look at the life of silver screen legend Greta Garbo, and the culture that worshiped her"--
949) Sorry not sorry
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Alyssa Milano, actress and activist, writes a collection of powerful personal essays that get to the heart of her life, career, and all-out humanitarianism. These essays will cover urgent topics of unity, communication, and treating all people the right way, a timely book that shows the importance of taking care of others. Milano has become one of the most visible, hard-working humanitarians we have. A bestselling children's book author, here she's...
950) Brazen
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"A killer is reenacting the deaths of Hollywood's blond bombshells, and Valentino must stop him before it's too late in Loren D. Estleman's Brazen. UCLA film archivist and sometime film detective Valentino doesn't take friend and former actress Beata Limerick very seriously when she tells him that she quit acting because of the curse on blond actresses. Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Thelma Todd, Sharon Tate... they all had more fun, but none of...
Author
Publisher
John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Set in 1960s Italy, this stylish, atmospheric debut spins a bewitching web of ruthless ambition, family secrets, and the consequences of forbidden love, as an ambitious American actress snags the starring role in a mysterious horror movie shooting on location in a crumbling medieval castle outside Rome… Readers who enjoy the moody gothic allure of Kate Morton and Silvia Moreno-Garcia or the immersive settings of Lucinda Riley and Fiona Davis will...
956) Mulholland Dr
Series
Criterion collection volume 779
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
Author
Series
Shakespeare stealer volume 1
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeare's acting troupe in order to steal the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A deeply textured and compelling biography of comedy giant Mel Brooks, covering his rags-to-riches life and triumphant career in television, films, and theater, from Patrick McGilligan, the acclaimed author of Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane and Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light. Oscar, Emmy, Tony, and Grammy award–winner Mel Brooks was behind (and sometimes in front the camera too) of some of the...
959) Famous in love
Author
Series
Famous in love novels volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Paige is discovered in Portland, Oregon, and brought to Hollywood to star in a major motion picture, she finds all of the fame and adulation she had dreamed of but also gets caught in a romantic whirlwind, both on and off screen.
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe--here is the first book to bring these two all-American icons together. Their friendship and on-and-off intimate relationship, kept secret because of powerful others in their lives, spanned seven tumultuous years. At onepoint, he even proposed marriage"--
"Frank Sinatra! Marilyn Monroe! Never before teamed in a book, yet theirs was a seven-year friendship and on-and-off intimate relationship shrouded in secrecy and...
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