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Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The movie business is booming in 1935 when twenty-one-year-old Loretta Young meets thirty-four-year-old Clark Gable on the set of The Call of the Wild. Though he's already married, Gable falls for the stunning and vivacious young actress instantly. Far from the glittering lights of Hollywood, Sister Alda Ducci has been forced to leave her convent and begin a new journey that leads her to Loretta. Becoming Miss Young's secretary, the innocent and pious...
2) The acrobat
Author
Publisher
Turtle Point Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
""Everyone wants to be Cary Grant," mused the world's most famous leading man. "Even I want to be Cary Grant." Who was Cary Grant, really? Who was he meant to be? Who in the end did he want to become? It is 1959, the year of his greatest successes but also at the zenith of a charmed career, and the 55-year-old man who calls himself Cary Grant is on a deep journey into the self. Introduced to the wonders of LSD as part of his therapy at The Psychiatric...
3) Snuff
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A full-frontal triple-X novel that goes where no American work of fiction has gone before. A porn star intends to cap her career by breaking the record for on-screen fornication.
4) Heartthrob
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Jericho Beaumont had dominated the box office before his fall from grace. Now poised for a comeback, he wants the role of Laramie bad enough to sign a silly contract with Kate O'Laughlin - one that gives her the authority to watch his every move.
Author
Publisher
Taylor Trade Pub
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recounts the affair between German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl and American athlete Glenn Morris who met during the filming of Olympia, a documentary about the 1936 Berlin Games. Riefenstahl was a darling of the Nazis and Adolf Hitler and Morris was a farm boy from Simla, Colorado.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1914, and twenty-five-year-old Frances Marion has left her (second) husband and her Northern California home for the lure of Los Angeles, where she is determined to live independently as an artist. But the word on everyones lips these days is "flickers"-the silent moving pictures enthralling theatergoers. Turn any corner in this burgeoning town and youll find made-up actors running around, as a movie camera captures it all.In this fledgling...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"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...
10) The empty glass
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles County coroner Ben Fitzgerald, having found Marilyn Monroe's diary in which she revealed details about her affair with "The General" while he was at the home of the actress on the night of her death, spends several days learning about a cover-up and the real woman behind the celebrity name and begins to suffer from paranoia about a conspiracy.
11) A simple wedding
Author
Series
Heart's Landing volume 1
Publisher
Hallmark Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Jenny always dreamed of getting married at Heart's Landing. But when she finally visits the charming small town, she's there to make wedding arrangements for someone else: her cousin, who also happens to be her boss and a famous movie star. To keep the event secret and avoid a media circus, Jenny pretends she's the one getting married. Nick is intrigued by this bride-to-be who starts visiting his bakery every afternoon for sweet treats and conversation....