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Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From Entertainment Weekly writer Maureen Lee Lenker comes a swoony romantic comedy set in the world of 1930s film. Joan Davis is a movie star, and a damned good actor, too. Unfortunately, Hollywood only seems to care when she stars alongside Dash Howard, Tinseltown's favorite leading man and a perpetual thorn in Joan's side. She's sick of his hotshot attitude, his never-ending attempts to get a rise out of her-especially after the night he sold her...
2) Star flight
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Language
English
Description
Lauren Castle searches for the truth behind her husband's accidental death and her famous grandmother's suicide which seem to be inextricably linked.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this British mystery, a Scotland Yard detective follows a deadly trail from the Isle of Man to the South of France to solve a movie star's murder.
The glamour of Hollywood has descended upon the Isle of Man. But behind this glossy façade, something sinister stirs. Superintendent Littlejohn thought he was in for a few days' holiday, but when the depraved movie star Hal Vale is found dead in his hotel room, Littlejohn is called to investigate....
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Language
English
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One sinful night. Dante D'Arezzo is the last person famous songwriter Justina Perry wants to see at her best friend's wedding. The wickedly sexy Italian is ruthless to the core. He broke her heart once; she won't surrender to his insatiable desire again. But what Dante wants, One very big scandal! Justina's pregnancy hits the front page and Dante knows he's the father. He'll make her pay for trying to keep his child from him. His Miss Independent...
Author
Publisher
Birlinn Limited
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This oral biography of the legendary martial artist and action film star offers "an impressive collection of insights into the life of a cultural icon" ( The Guardian , UK). Bruce Lee only made a handful of films, yet generations after his untimely death at the age of thirty-two, the Little Dragon's influence on culture is as strong as ever. Lee wasn't just an actor and martial artist, but a director, inventor, husband, father and philosopher. His...
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English
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One of Hollywood's first scandals was nearly its last. 1936 looked like it would be a great year for the movie industry. With the economy picking up after the Great Depression, Americans everywhere were sitting in the dark watching the stars -- and few stars shined as brightly as one of America's most enduring screen favorites, Mary Astor. But Astor's story wasn't a happy one. She was born poor, and at the first sign that she could earn money, her...
Author
Publisher
Phoenix Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
1996: You'll Never Make Love in This Town Again is published and rocks Hollywood with its no-holds-barred stories from girls who dare to name names and tell tales about what really happens with celebrities behind closed doors. Shocking, fearless, and dishing dirt like never before, You'll Never Make Love in This Town Again becomes a publishing sensation that rides the New York Times bestseller list for months. 2006: Ten years later, only the names...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Gloria Steinem's insightful and uniquely sensitive account of Hollywood's brightest star from the Golden Age Few books have altered the perception of a celebrity as much as Marilyn. Gloria Steinem reveals that behind the familiar sex symbol lay a tortured spirit with powerful charisma, intelligence, and complexity. The book delves into a topic many other writers have ignored-that of Norma Jeane, the young girl who grew up with an unstable mother,...
9) James Dean
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Series
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
They called him America's first teenageer, James Dean starred in just three films, but his death in 1955 aged 24 - dying as he lived - made him an icon of the rebellious youth culture that he had symbolised in Rebel Without a Cause. This biography explores the myth around him.
Publisher
TI Inc. Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
No name is more synonymous with suave sophistication and danger than James Bond. And no actor filled the spy's black calf oxfords more often-or with quite the eyebrow-up charm-than the late Roger Moore. Witty and stylish, Moore, who died in May 2017, embodied the spirit of Ian Fleming's globe-trotting secret agent in Live and Let Die , The Spy Who Loved Me , and five other 007 classics. In LIFE Bond. James Bond we pay tribute to this iconic star and...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This is the definitive biography of one of the most iconic, complex and enduring legends of Hollywood's golden age, whose major presence in American film, radio, television, stage and theater lasted beyond the second half of the 20th Century, and whose classic films are known throughout the world. Written by New York Times bestselling, prize-winning author Marc Eliot - Cary Grant, Walt Disney, Clint Eastwood, Steve McQueen, Jack Nicholson, and others...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Legendary actor Nick Nolte delivers his most revealing performance yet. This intimate memoir is a tale of art, passion, commitment, addiction, and the quest for personal enlightenment as intense and hypnotic as the man himself. In a career spanning five decades and hundreds of roles, Nick Nolte has become a true Hollywood icon. Rising from a difficult childhood in the rural Midwest to leading roles and a trio of Oscar nominations in the golden West,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A NEW IDENTITY, A NEW LOVE
Ever since Madison Delaney learned she was switched at birth, her life has been in a tailspin. The Hollywood actress arrives in Valentine Bay hesitant to reveal herself to her new family, but she quickly encounters Sten Larson living next door. The down-to-earth shipbuilder makes Madison question everything she thought she wanted. Can a movie star find happiness in small-town Oregon?
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Romance
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A reclusive actress is brought back into the spotlight-by murder-in this novel by a New York Times -bestselling and Edgar award-winning author. Leigh Hollins had no choice but to honor her father's dying wish: that she find her estranged mother, now living in seclusion in Norway, and reconcile with her. Leigh's mother, Laura Worth, was once one of the most dynamic movie stars in the world, her films eclipsed only by her real life, which was filled...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
How to Make Love Like a Porn Star , the mega-bestselling memoir, triumphant survival story, and cautionary tale that spent over six weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and rocketed adult film icon Jenna Jameson into the mainstream spotlight, is now in paperback and ebook for the very first time. Her unforgettable memoir, written with master storyteller Neil Strauss, is many things at once: a shocking sexual history; an insider's guide to the...
17) Breathing room
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Language
English
Description
Join the New York Times bestselling author on a journey to the sun-washed hills of Tuscany. Another sexy, wonderful, contemporary love story with all the heart, wisdom, and wit that have made Susan Elizabeth Phillips the gold standard for women's fiction.
She's Dr. Isabel Favor, America's diva of self-help.
He's Ren Gage, Hollywood's favorite villain.
Sometimes you just know that God has a sense of humor.
Dr. Isabel Favor, author of Four Cornerstones...
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Series
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Mae Murray (1885 -- 1965), popularly known as the girl with the bee-stung lips," was a fiery presence in silent-era Hollywood. Renowned for her classic beauty and charismatic presence, she rocketed to stardom as a dancer in the Ziegfeld Follies, moving across the country to star in her first film, To Have and to Hold, in 1916. An instant hit with audiences, Murray soon became one of the most famous names in Tinseltown. However, Murray's moment in...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Alastair Sim was an enigmatic character both on and off the screen. His idiosyncratic style of acting in films such as The Belles of St Trinian's endeared him to a cinema-going audience desperate to escape the day-to-day dreariness of an invasive, bureaucratic post-war Britain. In private, he was a curiously contradictory character, prejudiced and yet tolerant, thoughtful but sometimes inconsiderate. To examine the life of this extraordinary man,...
Publisher
TI Inc. Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"PEOPLE Cher celebrates the iconic entertainer at 75, with stunning photos and a retrospective look at her six-decade career as a hit-making recording artist, beloved TV host, and actress, including her marriage and musical partnership with Sonny Bono, her work on the Broadway stage and in Hollywood films -- such as the Oscar-winning Moonstruck -- as well as unforgettable performances as one of highest-grossing concert artists in the history of live...
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