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41) Brazen
Author
Series
Valentino mystery volume 5
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
206 pages ; 22 cm.
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
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
167 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
In 1965, a young, up-and-coming illustrator by the name of Edward Sorel was living in a $97-a-month railroad flat on Manhattans Upper East Side. Resolved to fix up the place, Sorel began pulling up the linoleum on his kitchen floor, tearing away layer after layer until he discovered a hidden treasure: issues of the New York Daily News and Daily Mirror from 1936, each ablaze with a scandalous child custody trial taking place in Hollywood and starring...
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 86 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Bing Crosby (May 3, 1903-October 14, 1977) was, without doubt, the most popular and influential multi-media star of the first half of the 20th century. For more than three decades, through radio, film, television and records, he reigned supreme. Bing Crosby Rediscovered, explores the life and legend of this iconic performer, revealing a man far more complex than his public persona.Crosby’s estate, HLC Properties, Ltd., granted American Masters unprecedented...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
12 audio discs (14 hrs., 45 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
No celebrity rivals Elizabeth Taylor's glamour and guts or her level of fame. She was the last major star to come out of the old Hollywood studio system and she is a legend known for her beauty and her magnetic screen presence in a career that spanned most of the twentieth century and nearly sixty films. But her private life was even more compelling than her Oscar-winning on-screen performances. Above all, she was a survivor; by the time she was 26...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
388 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
The biggest female box office attraction in Hollywood history, Doris Day remains unequalled as the only entertainer who has ever triumphed in movies, radio, recordings, and a multi-year weekly television series. America's favorite girl next door may have projected a wholesome image that led Oscar Levant to quip "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin," but in Considering Doris Day, Tom Santopietro reveals Day's underappreciated and effortless acting...
47) Garbo
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
437 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
When she arrived in Hollywood Greta Garbo spoke barely a word of English, yet in sixteen short years, she managed to infiltrate the world's subconscious. She appeared in only two dozen Hollywood movies, and ended her film career when she was thirty-six. Gottlieb retells her life, beginning in the slums of Stockholm and proceeding through her years of struggling to elude the attention of the world. He examines the films themselves, the life she led...
48) Barrymore
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A filmed play of Christopher Plummer in his Tony Award winning performance as iconic stage and screen idol John Barrymore. At the height of his remarkable career, John Barrymore was the most celebrated entertainer of his generation. The reigning king of both Broadway and Hollywood, his decline and fall from grace was the tragic result of a self-destructive spiral into vice and excess. And now, with his career in tatters, he makes one final attempt...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (6 hrs., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For decades, from iconic film roles to high-profile relationships, Moore has never been far from the spotlight-- or the headlines. But throughout her rise to fame and during some of the most pivotal moments of her life, she battled addiction, body image issues, and round herself questioning if she belonged in Hollywood, if she was a good mother, a good actress-- and, always, if she was simply good enough. Here she opens up about her career and personal...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hollywood icon Charlie Chaplin rocketed to fame from the slums of Victorian London and spent decades as one of Hollywood's most famous and beloved stars until his scandalous fall from grace. His stage persona and incendiary media portrayal defined how he was perceived, but his private life has always been shrouded in mystery until now. Never-before-heard recordings, intimate home movies, and newly restored classic films reveal a side to Chaplin that...
51) The money shot
Author
Series
Teddy Fay novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2018
Formats
Description
Ever a man of mystery and intrigue, Teddy Fay has donned a new disguise - that of Mark Weldon, a stuntman and actor starring in Centurion Studios' newest film. When the picture's leading lady begins receiving blackmail threats, Teddy is in the perfect position to investigate, and it soon becomes clear that the villains have more in their sights than just money. Money they've got. What they need is prestige, the cache of a respected studio to lend...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 59 min. 46 sec.) : digital, stereo., sound, color.
Description
From the award winning, 10 part archival program series, "Filmmakers on Film." From Mary Pickford to Barbra Streisand the successful actress turned producer/director is one of Hollywood's longest standing traditions. Features: Lee Grant and Rita Moreno. Includes interview materials with Barbra Streisand. Ally Acker is the director of the ten part archival program series, "Filmmakers on Film.”
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
403 p. (large print) : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Description
"Over the course of this ... memoir, Selma lays bare her addiction to alcohol, her devotion to her brilliant and complicated mother, and the moments she flirted with death. There is brutal violence, passionate love, true friendship, the gift of motherhood, and, finally, the surprising salvation of a multiple sclerosis diagnosis"--Dust jacket flap.
54) Love, unscripted
Author
Description
"Frustrated with the sad state of her dating life, restaurateur Chloe Anderson penned a single romance novel featuring the man of her dreams. Upon the book's publication, the hero resonated with thousands of women, catapulting the book to the top of the bestsellers list and earning the novel a movie option. Chloe is thrilled a production company wants to bring her movie to the big screen and film it right in her hometown, Stillwater Bay, North Carolina....
56) Whiskey in a teacup: what growing up in the South taught me about life, love, and baking biscuits
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
303 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Description
Publisher Annotation: Academy awardâ(QA(B(3C(Bwinning actress, producer, and entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon invites you into her world, where she infuses the southern style, parties, and traditions she loves with contemporary flair and charm. 304pp., 500K
57) Tropic thunder
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Watch John 'Four Leaf' Tayback as he fights a gruesome battle during the Vietnam War. But, this is actually a scene from 'Tropic Thunder,' a big-budget adaptation of Tayback's wartime memoir. Starring as the central platoon are Speedman, Lazarus, Chino and Portnoy, as well as young character actor Kevin Sandusky. To play the character of African American Sgt. Osiris, Lazarus dyes his skin dark and refuses to break from character. When a scene goes...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
"When Kong-sang was a young boy in Hong Kong, he enjoyed practicing martial arts with his dad but hated going to school. He was eventually enrolled in the China Drama Academy, where he improved his martial arts skills and became a stuntman. That training led to a successful career as an actor. Kong-sang, now known as Jackie Chan, never gave up on his passion for screwball physical comedy. Luckily for Jackie, his determination paid off. His humor and...
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