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1) Then again
Author
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Description
The award-winning actress documents her rise from an everyday girl to an acclaimed performer while exploring her defining relationship with her mother and how their shared and separate dreams influenced their experiences.
2) Tribute
Author
Description
Cilla, a former child star who has found more satisfying work as a restorer of old houses, has come to her grandmother's Shenandoah Valley farmhouse, tools at her side, to rescue it from ruin. In the attic, she finds a cache of unsigned letters suggesting that her grandmother was pregnant when she died and that the father was a local married man. When Cilla becomes the target of a series of intimidating acts and a frightening, violent assault, her...
3) Notting Hill
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The world's most famous movie star falls in love with a small-time bookstore owner.
Author
Series
Hugo Marston novels volume 4
Publisher
Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 21 cm
Description
In this prequel to The Bookseller, former FBI profiler Hugo Marston has just become head of security at the US Embassy in London. He?s asked to protect a famous movie-star couple, Dayton Harper and Ginny Ferro, who, while filming a movie in rural England, killed a local man in a hit and run. The task turns from routine to disastrous almost immediately. Before Hugo even meets them, he finds out that Ferro has disappeared, and her body has been found...
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A chance encounter with struggling B-movie star Ronnie Bostock opens up a whole new world to buttoned-up British author Giles De'Ath. Focuses on the genteel obsession of an older man for a younger man.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, 2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Marilyn Monroe's final project, "Something's got to give," has become one of the most talked about unfinished films in history. the story of the film and Marilyn's last days were seemingly lost ... until now. Through interviews, never-before-seen footage and an edited reconstruction of "Something's got to give" this presentation provides a look at the last act in the life of the world's most famous and tragic superstar.
8) Lovelace
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dramatizes the life of Linda Lovelace, star of the 1970s pornographic film "Deep throat" and later an activist protesting violence against women.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
x, 436 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
"She is a legend, a global icon, the ultimate diva. Yet most of what we know about Streisand is the stuff of caricature: the Brooklyn girl made good, the political dilettante, the Oscar-winning actress and bona fide movie mogul, the greatest female singer who ever lived, a skinflint, a philanthropist, a connoisseur and a barbarian. Even to the multitudes around the world who idolize her, Streisand remains aloof, unknowable, tantalizingly beyond reach....
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and '40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and Bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a radio system to throw Nazi torpedoes off course during WWII.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Description
Silent movies are giving way to talking pictures, and a hoofer-turned-matinée idol is caught in that bumpy transition, as are his buddy, prospective ladylove, and shrewish costar. Rediscover the musical masterpiece in dazzling, restored high definition, featuring an all-new documentary special feature that salutes not just the all-time favorite, but also the musical legacy of its producer, songwriter Arthur Freed.
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Description
The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon Several years before he died in 2008, Paul Newman commissioned his best friend to interview actors and directors he worked with, his friends, his children, his first wife, his psychiatrist, and Joanne Woodward, to create an oral history of his life. After hearing and reading what others said about him, Newman then dictated his own version of his life. Now, this long-lost memoir-90% Newman's own...
14) Making a scene
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Growing up in the friendly suburbs of Richmond, Virginia, Constance Wu was often scolded for having big feelings or strong reactions. 'Good girls don’t make scenes,' people warned her. And while she spent most of her childhood suppressing her bold, emotional nature, she found an early outlet in local community theater—it was the one place where big feelings were okay—were good, even. Acting became her refuge, her touchstone, and eventually her...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Errol Flynn is one of Hollywood's greatest leading men: a lusty and vivacious actor who lived a swashbuckling life of glamour and scandal on and off the screen. Btu few remember the icon's last May-December romance that shocked a nation. It's a sensational, unforgettable look at Hollywood's golden age and the desire for fame and acceptance.
16) The chaperone
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Society matron Norma Carlisle volunteers to accompany future Jazz Age star and free spirit Louise Brooks for a summer in New York. But why does she want to go? It's a story full of surprises, about who these women really are, and who they eventually become. Written by Julian Fellowes and based on the beloved novel by Laura Moriarty.
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