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Sunset Boulevard [videorecording] / by Brackett, Charles,1892-1969.; Wilder, Billy,1906-2002.; DeMille, Cecil B.(Cecil Blount),1881-1959.; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm);
William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Cecil B. DeMille, Hedda Hopper.The story of an aging film queen who prepares for her grand comeback to stardom.
Subjects: Spanish language materials.; French language materials.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Actresses;
© c2008., Paramount Home Entertainment,
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Great circle / by Shipstead, Maggie,author.;
"After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There --after encountering a pair of pilots passing through town in a beat up Cessna--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fifteen, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy rancher who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement that will haunt her for the rest of her life, even as it allows her to fulfill her destiny: circumnavigating the globe and piloting her plane over the Arctic Circle. A century later, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centers on Marian's disappearance over the South Pacific. Vibrant, canny, disgusted with the claustrophobia of Hollywood, Hadley is eager to re-define herself after a romantic film franchise has imprisoned her in the grip of cult celebrity. Her immersion into the character of Marian unfolds, thrillingly, alongside Marian's own story, as the two womens' fates--and their hunger for self-determination in vastly different geographies and times-- collide. Epic and emotional, meticulously researched and gloriously told, Great Circle is a monumental work of art, and a tremendous leap forward for the prodigiously gifted Maggie Shipstead"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Rescues; Women air pilots; Disappeared persons; Actresses;
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All about Eve [videorecording] / by Mankiewicz, Joseph L.; Davis, Bette,1908-1989.; Baxter, Anne.; Sanders, George,1906-1972.; Holm, Celeste,1917-2012.; Merrill, Gary.; Newman, Alfred,1901-1970.; Orr, Mary.Wisdom of Eve.; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;
DVD, stereo.Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe, Gregory Ratoff, Thelma Ritter, Marilyn Monroe, Barbara Bates, Walter Hampden.Director of photography, Milton Krasner; art direction, Lyle Wheeler, George W. Davis; editor, Barbara McLean; music, Alfred Newman.Academy awards: Best actor in a supporting role, George Sanders; Best costume design, black-and-white, Edith Head, Charles Le Maire; Best director, Joseph L. Mankiewicz; Best picture, Darryl F. Zanuck; Best sound, recording; Best writing, screenplay, Joseph L. Mankiewicz.MPAA rating: Not rated.Davis stars as a fading Broadway actress who is menaced by an overreaching younger actress played by Baxter.
Subjects: Film adaptations.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Feature films.; Actresses; Aging; Deception; Orr, Mary;
© c2002., Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment,
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The seventh veil of Salome / by Moreno-Garcia, Silvia,author.https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxGVPkrvVt7jMm8rfDg8C;
"1950s Hollywood: Every actress wants to be Salome, the star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary woman whose story has inspired artists since ancient times. So when the film's mercurial director casts an unknown Mexican ingenue in the lead role, Vera Larios quickly becomes the talk of the town. She's also the object of envy of Nancy Hartley, a bit player whose career has stalled and who will do anything to win the fame she believes she richly deserves. Two actresses, both determined to make it in Golden Age Hollywood, a city overflowing with gossip, scandal and intrigue, make for a sizzling combination. But this is the tale of three women, for it is also the story of princess Salome, consumed with desire for the fiery prophet who foretold her stepfather Herod's doom: a woman torn between what duty decrees and the yearning of her heart. Before the curtain comes down, there will be tears and tragedy aplenty in this sexy Technicolor saga"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Salome (Biblical figure); Motion picture actors and actresses; Fame; Actresses;
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The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo : a novel / by Reid, Taylor Jenkins,author.;
"Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself ... Regardless of why Evelyn has chosen her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. Summoned to Evelyn's Upper East Side apartment, Monique listens as Evelyn unfurls her story: from making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the late 80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way. As Evelyn's life unfolds, revealing a ruthless ambition, an unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love, Monique begins to feel a very a real connection to the actress. But as Evelyn's story catches up with the present, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique's own in tragic and irreversible ways."--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Romance fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Biographers; Actors and actresses;
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Plymouth undercover / by Kelley, Pamela M.,author.;
"Meet Emma McCarthy, a thirty-year-old failed actress that just moved home to Plymouth, MA. And her mother, Cindy, a yoga instructor in the Pinehills, an exclusive golf community in Plymouth. They've just inherited Court Street Investigations, a private detective agency. And its one part-time employee, eighty-year-old Mickey, a retired police detective. They expect typical cases like cheating spouses or workman's comp, but quickly learn that the agency also has a reputation for solving murders when they are hired to find a local missing woman."--Back cover.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Actresses; Private investigators; Missing persons; Murder;
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The secret life of Marilyn Monroe / by Taraborrelli, J. Randy.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [503]-526), filmography (p. [527]-541), and index.In this groundbreaking book, Taraborrelli draws complex and sympathetic portraits of the women so influential in the actress' life, including her mother, her foster mother, and her legal guardian. He also reveals, for the first time, the shocking scope of Marilyn's own mental illness, the identity of Marilyn's father and the half-brother she never knew, and new information about her relationship with the Kennedys-Bobby, Jack, and Pat Kennedy Lawford.
Subjects: Monroe, Marilyn, 1926-1962.; Motion picture actors and actresses;
© 2009., Grand Central Pub.,
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Saving Susy Sweetchild / by Hambly, Barbara,author.https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqBmvbWVWYCBdRDHXwQv3;
"July, 1924. After nine months of living in Hollywood and working as a companion to her beautiful silent-movie star sister-in-law, young British widow Emma Blackstone is settling into her new role: doctoring film scenarios whenever the regular scenarist is overwhelmed with work, which seems to be most of the time. Shoots for the Western movie Our Tiny Miracle are in full swing, with little seven-year-old Susy Sweetchild playing the lead and acting most professionally. Maybe too professionally, Emma thinks, shocked to the core when the child star is nearly killed in a stunt scene and her mother--former screen siren Selina Sutton--seems only to care that Susy gets the job done. But Emma's concerns only worsen when news reaches her that Susy and her mother have been kidnapped. The ransom note says to keep the cops out of it, so it's up to Emma and Kitty to find them before the unthinkable happens and Emma is forced to rewrite Our Tiny Miracle with a far more tragic ending..." -- Amazon.
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Cozy mysteries.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Nineteen twenties; Widows; Actresses; Motion picture plays; Child actors; Kidnapping;
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Tribute / by Roberts, Nora.;
Cilla, a former child star who has found more satisfying work as a restorer of old houses, has come to her grandmother's Shenandoah Valley farmhouse, tools at her side, to rescue it from ruin. In the attic, she finds a cache of unsigned letters suggesting that her grandmother was pregnant when she died and that the father was a local married man. When Cilla becomes the target of a series of intimidating acts and a frightening, violent assault, her neighbor, graphic novelist Ford Sawyer, steps in to help her sort out who is targeting her and why.
Subjects: Love stories.; Child actors; Granddaughters; Motion picture actors and actresses; Grandmothers; City and town life;
© c2008., G.P. Putnam's Sons,
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My autobiography / by Chaplin, Charlie,1889-1977.; Robinson, David,author of introduction.;
Subjects: Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977.; Motion picture actors and actresses; Comedians; Autobiography.;
© [2012]., Melville House Publishing,
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