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3) 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...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
x, 446 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Description
With her trademark effervescent humor, Goldie tells us about the lessons she's learned and the wisdom she feels she's been given, in the hope of giving something back. Not a Hollywood "tell-all," this book is a very personal look at moments private and powerful, a trip back through a life well lived by a woman well loved. She takes us on a tour of her go-go dancing years in New York in the sixties, her phenomenal success on TV's Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Formats
Description
In this spectacular saga as radiant, thrilling, and beguiling as Hollywood itself, Adriana Trigiani takes us back to Tinsel Town's golden age--an era as brutal as it was resplendent--and into the complex and glamorous world of a young actress hungry for fame and success. With meticulous, beautiful detail, Trigiani paints a rich, historical landscape of 1930s Los Angeles, where European and American artisans flocked to pursue the ultimate dream: to...
7) 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
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
xii, 306 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Description
The film legend and Hollywood icon shares the highs and lows of her life as an actress during Hollywood's Golden Age, stories from her lifelong friendship with Elizabeth Taylor, and intimate details of her marriages and family life.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Vic Edwards was the biggest star in Hollywood, a college football legend turned stunt double turned leading man. Now in his eighties, he's convinced by an old friend to accept an invitation to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at a two-bit film festival in Nashville. The trip launches him on both a hilarious fish-out-of-water adventure and an unexpectedly poignant journey into his past.
Series
Publisher
Delta Entertainment Corp
Pub. Date
2001, c1951
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 130 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Home Town Story is a drama about a hardhitting reporter and his fight against political corruption. One of Marilyn Monroe's first roles.
Hollywood Remembers Marilyn is a documentary and pictorial journey through Marilyn Monroe's career, life and untimely death.
Author
Publisher
Grand Cenral Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
377 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
The iconic actress looks back on her days as a child star for Disney, as well as the challenges of dealing with an industry that wanted her to remain to bound to a wholesome, youthful public image.
Author
Publisher
Triumph Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xiii, 610 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Description
Chronicles the life of the actor, from his humble, small-town upbringing and his rise to stardom in "The Great Escape" and "The Magnificent Seven" to his courageous battle with cancer and dramatic death in Mexico.
Author
Publisher
37 Ink, Atria
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Superstar comedian and Hollywood box office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word by writing some words. Some of those words include: the, a, for, above, and even even. Put them together and you have the funniest, most heartfelt, and most inspirational memoir on survival, success, and the importance of believing in yourself since Old Yeller."--Amazon.com.
14) Wishful drinking
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
163 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
Fisher comes clean (well, sort of) with the crazy truth that is her life, in her first-ever memoir.
15) Irma Vep
Series
Criterion collection volume 1074
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
A Hong Kong action-movie star arrives in Paris to play the latex-clad lead in a remake of Louis Feuillade's classic silent crime serial Les vampires. What she finds is a behind-the-scenes tangle of barely controlled chaos as egos clash, romantic attractions simmer, and an obsessive director drives himself to the brink to realize his vision.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
One of the top box-office draws of the 1960s and '70s with classics like The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair and Bullitt, Steve McQueen is renowned as one of the most exciting and iconic actors to ever come out of Hollywood. Filled with original research, new interviews, and rare photos, this definitive biography of "the King of Cool" includes intimate details of his films, his relationships, and his struggles with addictions....
17) X
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
When a film crew arrive to an isolated Texas ranch to shoot an adult movie, they soon find themselves fighting for survival.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
viii, 179 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
The author is the only child of Cary Grant and Dyan Cannon. This portrait is of the relationship between a daughter and her father, one of America's most iconic male movie stars. She writes of their life together through her high school and college years until his death in 1986 at the age of eighty-two.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Formats
Description
Lisa Niemi and Patrick Swayze first met as teenagers at his mother's dance studio. He was older and just a bit cocky; she was the gorgeous waif who refused to worship the ground he walked on. It didn't take long for them to fall in love. Their 34-year marriage, which they explored together in The Time of My Life, was a uniquely passionate partnership. Here, for the first time, Lisa shares the details of Patrick's twenty-one-month battle with pancreatic...
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