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In engaging anecdotes, Carol discusses her remarkable friendships with stars such at Jimmy Stewart, Lucille Ball, Cary Grant, and Julie Andrews; her television show that won twenty-five Emmys in its remarkable eleven-year run; and the sorrows that she overcame with her irresistible humor.
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Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
1 v (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
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In this affectionate story, three children follow their grandfather up to the attic, where he pulls out his old bowler hat, gold-tipped cane, and his tap shoes. Grandpa once danced on the vaudeville stage, and as he glides across the floor, the children can see what it was like to be a song and dance man. Gammell captures all the story's inherent joie de vivre with color pencil renderings that leap off the pages. Bespectacled, enthusiastic Grandpa...
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Publisher
Sellers Publishing
Pub. Date
c2015
Physical Desc
240 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Professional wedding entertainer Peter Merry shines light on how to create fun and entertaining wedding receptions, with details on finding the right vendors, mapping out an agenda, and creating memorable moments that can be personalized to individual styles and sensibilities.
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The State Department wants Ethel Barrymore to represent the American theater at an arts exposition in Paris, but a beleaguered bureaucrat mismails Miss Barrymore's invitation to Miss Ethel "Dynamite" Jackson. She's a very blonde, very brassy chorus girl, who proves to be dynamite on the New York to Paris ocean crossing.
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"Martin illuminates the sacrifice, discipline, and originality that made him an icon and informs his work to this day. To be this good, to perform so frequently, was isolating and lonely. It took Martin decades to reconnect with his parents and sister, and he tells that story with great tenderness. Martin also paints a portrait of his times?the era of free love and protests against the war in Vietnam, the heady irreverence of The Smothers Brothers...
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
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When the Rat Pack returns to Las Vegas for the premier of "Ocean's 11," Eddie G. lends his assistance to Frank Sinatra when he is asked to locate a girl with whom Frank had been supposed to meet, a quest that traps Eddie between the cops and gangsters.
10) The big exit
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Series
Hank Madden novels volume 2
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Fresh out of prison, Richie Forman tries to settle back into his life in the Bay Area. By day, he works at a law firm dedicated to freeing innocent men from prison. By night, he makes a living impersonating Frank Sinatra. But then his ex-best friend is found hacked to death in his garage, and Richie becomes the prime suspect. In a murder mystery with the intricacies of a microchip, David Carnoy weaves his characters like a master.|David Carnoy is...
11) On the avenue
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Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mona Merrick infuriates an heiress by savagely portraying her in a hit play. When the show's producer begins a love affair with the heiress, jealous Mona makes her satirical performance even more scathing, setting off fireworks between the couple.
12) My blue heaven
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Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 1 hr., 36 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A popular husband-and-wife entertainer team, making their move from radio to television, believe their lives will be complete when they can start a family. When they decide to adopt, they face problems and disappointments and are ultimately rewarded with an overabundance of babies.
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Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
105 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Did you know that Lucille Ball could pick up radio signals through her teeth? Or that her career was almost destroyed because she was a registered Communist? Bet you didn’t know that, as a studio executive, she green-lit both Star Trek and Mission: Impossible! Siblings Paige and Turner have collected some of the most unusual and surprising facts about the beloved actress, from her impoverished childhood and her first forays into the film industry...
16) Love, Lucy
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
xiv, 286 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
18) What if: a lifetime of questions, speculations, reasonable guesses, and a few things I know for sure
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
261 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
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"Beloved actress and bestselling author Shirley MacLaine contemplates a wealth of subjects from the mundane to the esoteric in this all-new collection of musings that begin with two simple words: What if--What if hope is the most dangerous emotion? What if a frog had wings? (Answer: He wouldnt bump his ass so much.) What if our political leaders actually led? What if Downton Abbey was full of Americans? What if, for some reason, I couldn't be creative...
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Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
107 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Presents the life of the comic actress, discussing her childhood, marriage to and divorce from Desi Arnaz, and her career on the successful television hit series "I Love Lucy."
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