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Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The complete story of a great actor, his difficult struggle to overcome alcoholism while enjoying the accolades of his contemporaries, a successful term as president of the Screen Actors Guild, and the love of family and friends that never deserted him.
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Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Fifteen years in the making, the first volume of the full-scale astonishing life of one of our greatest screen actresses whose career in pictures spanned four decades beginning with the coming of sound--the first to delve deeply into Stanwyck's rich, complex life and to explore her extraordinary range of eighty-eight motion pictures, many of them iconic; her work, her world, her Hollywood through an American century. At the heart of the book, Stanwyck...
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Language
English
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"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. During her seventy-nine years of rapid-fire love and...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Oscar-winner Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) stars as the famous movie star Macarena Granada, who flees the glitz and glamour of 1950s Hollywood to return to her roots in Spain where she has signed on to star in an epic film as Queen Isabella of Spain.
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Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Chris Lemmon reflects on his father, actor Jack Lemmon's, life and career, sharing family stories, conversations he had with his father, and anecdotes from and about his dad from both his personal and professional life.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"With this second memoir, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years, Andrews picks up the story with her arrival in Hollywood and her phenomenal rise to fame in her earliest films--Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music. Andrews describes her years in the film industry -- from the incredible highs to the challenging lows. Not only does she discuss her work in now-classic films and her collaborations with giants of cinema and television, she also unveils...
57) The hero
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Lee Hayden is an aging Western icon with his best performances are decades behind him. He spends his days reliving old glories and smoking too much weed with his former-co-star-turned-dealer, Jeremy, until a surprise cancer diagnosis brings his priorities into sharp focus. He soon strikes up an exciting, contentious relationship with stand-up comic Charlotte, and he attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter, Lucy, all while searching for one...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"With her arrival on the music scene in the early 1980s, Madonna generated nothing short of an explosion--as great as that of Elvis or the Beatles--taking the nation by storm with her liberated politics and breathtaking talent. Within two years of her 1983 debut album, a flagship Macy's store in Manhattan held a Madonna lookalike contest featuring Andy Warhol as a judge, and opened a department called "Madonna-land." But Madonna was more than just...
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English
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AT ITS HEART ARE TWO EXTRAORDINARY LOVERS, SEPARATED BY TRAGIC CIRCUMSTANCES, yearning for each other, yet seemingly never able to be together again. Jackie Collins' American Star is a love story for the ages. Nick and Lauren can never forget each other. Teenage small-town lovers - he from the wrong side of the tracks, she the prettiest girl in town - their love was the town scandal, forbidden, sizzling and unforgettable, ending abruptly in a tragedy...
60) The fury
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"This is a tale of murder. Or maybe that's not quite true. At its heart, it's a love story, isn't it? Lana Farrar is a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world. Every year, she invites her closest friends to escape the English weather and spend Easter on her idyllic private Greek island. I tell you this because you may think you know this story. You probably read about it at the time -- it caused a real stir in the tabloids,...
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