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Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
An iconic member of the counter-culture comedy duo traces their story from their introduction at a Vancouver comedy club to their renowned stand-up routines and movies to the drug controversies that marked their careers and their acrimonious separation.
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1986, Paul Newman and his closest friend, screenwriter Stewart Stern, began an extraordinary project. Stuart was to compile an oral history, to have Newman's family and friends and those who worked closely with him, talk about the actor's life. And then Newman would work with Stewart and give his side of the story. The only stipulation was that anyone who spoke on the record had to be completely honest. That same stipulation applied to Newman himself....
123) The button man
Author
Series
Hugo Marston novel volume 4
Publisher
Seventh Street Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Hugo Marston has just joined the State Department as head of security at the US Embassy in London. His task is to protect a pair of spoiled movie stars, Dayton Harper and his wife Ginny Ferro, whose reckless driving killed a prominent landowner in rural England. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Grand Cenral Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Mills was still a preteen when she began her acting career and was quickly thrust into the spotlight. Under the wing of Walt Disney himself, Mills was transformed into one of the biggest child starlets of the 1960s through iconic roles in both British and American films. She became one of only twelve actors in history to be bestowed with the Academy Juvenile Award. In her memoir, Mills provides a unique window into when Hollywood was still Tinseltown...
126) Don't come knocking
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women.
127) Stormy vows
Author
Series
Donovan Enterprises volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Struggling actress Brenna Sloan gains a private audition with Hollywood filmmaker Michael Donovan, but she refuses to be intimidated by him even if it costs her a role that could make her career.
131) True love
Author
Publisher
Celebra
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
One of the most influential Latina performers in history opens up about her life's most defining period, two years during which it took everything she had to rise above the greatest challenges she had ever faced.
132) Sunset Boulevard
Series
Centennial collection volume 1
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Struggling Hollywood writer Joe Gillis becomes entangled with reclusive silent film star Norma Desmond, whose madness destroys them both.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Grace Sheridan is back. Ten years after discovering that looks and talent are a dime a dozen in Los Angeles, she's wriggling into a pair of badass jeans and ready to show the film industry that there's way more to her than just a head of gorgeous red curls. And Hollywood's newest Brit super-hunk Jack Hamilton certainly sees a lot to like. Grace is trying to restrain herself from jumping a man who is nearly a decade her junior, but Jack is making...
Author
Publisher
Running Press Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
George Hurrell (1904–1992) was the creator of the Hollywood glamour portrait. Before his arrival, movie star portraits were “soft focus” and undistinguished, derivative of the Main Street USA portrait salon. The maverick artist instituted a sharp, dramatic look and captured movie stars of the most exalted era in Hollywood history with bold contrast and seductive poses. This lavishly illustrated book spans Hurrell’s entire career, from his...
135) Gemini
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
A heinous crime tests the complex relationship between a tenacious personal assistant and her Hollywood starlet boss. As the assistant unravels the mystery, she must confront her own understanding of friendship, truth, and celebrity.
Author
Series
Patrick de Courvoisier mystery volume 1
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Content to leave his controversial past behind him and enjoy a more relaxed, hedonistic lifestyle on a converted houseboat in the glamorous French resort of Cannes, enigmatic Englishman Patrick de Courvoisier is known as ‘Le Limier’ or ‘Fixer’. People come to him with their problems – and he fixes them. However, when Camille Ager asks Patrick to find her sister, Angele Valette, star of the new movie The Black Pearl, Patrick’s laidback...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2012, c2010
Language
English
Description
Traces the final two years of the iconic star's life, offering insight into the true nature of her relationship with JFK, her actual paternity, her brutal incarceration at a mental asylum, and her sexual exploitation by mobsters.
139) Beautiful ruins
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
A novel that spans fifty years. The Italian housekeeper and his long-lost American starlet; the producer who once brought them together, and his assistant. A glittering world filled with unforgettable characters.
140) Murder ; The lodger
Series
Publisher
Whirlwind Media
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
Murder!: "Diana Baring is an actress who is found standing over the corpse of a fellow actress. She has amnesia and remembers nothing about the murder, or herself, and is convicted of murder and sentenced to die. One person believes she is innocent and sets out to prove it.
The Lodger: Adapted from Marie Belloc Lowndes' novel in which a young lodger is suspected by his landlady of being "The Avenger", who kills in the manner of Jack the Ripper.
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