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Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company in 2005, during a difficult time. Competition was more intense than ever and technology was changing faster than at any time in the company's history. His vision came down to three clear ideas: Recommit to the concept that quality matters, embrace technology instead of fighting it, and think bigger -- think global -- and turn Disney into a stronger brand in international markets. Twelve years later,...
2) Bel-Air dead
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Stone Barrington novels volume 20
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Stone Barrington receives a rather unexpected phone call from Arrington Calder, the ex-girlfriend with whom he has a son. Arrington's much older husband, the actor Vance Calder, has just died, leaving her a fortune in Centurion Studios stock. Arrington has plans for the money and asks Stone to represent her in the sale of the company. But when he arrives at her home in Bel-Air to finalize the deal, things take a nasty turn.
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Sent to Lisbon and Morocco, where a British studio is creating a silent film version of "The Pirates of Penzance," Mary Russell investigates a series of crimes targeting the production and confronts a high-stakes situation when actual pirates orchestrate a hostage situation.
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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...
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2022.
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The son of a film director, Mack grows up on set and into a hopeless romantic -- one who falls hard for the handsome and popular Karim, who eventually notices him back, right before Mack has to relocate to Scotland. Not wanting to lose his first love, Mack asks Karim to be long-distance, but while they're trying, fearless and confident Finlay shows up on set, and Mack's world turns upside down yet again.
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2011
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1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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In the summer of 1956, 23-year-old Colin Clark, determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. When his diary account was published, one week was missing. This is the story of that week: an idyll in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work.
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Los Angeles, present day: When an iconic hat worn by Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind ends up in Christine McAllister's vintage clothing boutique by mistake, her efforts to return it to its owner take her on a journey more enchanting than any classic movie. Los Angeles, 1938: Violet Mayfield sets out to reinvent herself in Hollywood after her dreams fall apart, and lands a job on the set of Gone With the Wind. She meets enigmatic Audrey Duvall,...
9) The congress
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[2014]
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1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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More than two decades after catapulting to stardom with The Princess Bride, an aging actress decides to take her final job: preserving her digital likeness for a future Hollywood. Through a deal brokered by her loyal, longtime agent and the head of Miramount Studios, her alias will be controlled by the studio, and will star in any film they want with no restrictions.
10) Hail, Caesar!
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[2016]
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1 videodisc (106 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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An all-star comedy set during the latter years of Hollywood's Golden Age. It follows a single day in the life of a studio fixer who is presented with plenty of problems to fix.
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[2020]
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1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Charts the early years of HandMade Films seen through the eyes of the filmmakers, key personnel, and the man who started it all: former Beatle George Harrison. Featuring unreleased archive interviews and footage with Harrison, exclusive interviews with Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Richard E. Grant, Neil Jordan, Ray Cooper, and unseen interviews with Bob Hoskins.
12) Scream all night
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[2018]
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389 pages ; 22 cm.
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Dario Heyward never wants to go back to Moldavia Studios, the iconic castle that served as the set, studio, and home to the cast and crew of dozens of cult classic B-horror movies. It's been three years since Dario has even seen the place, after getting legally emancipated from his father, the infamous director of Moldavia's creature features. But then Dario's estranged brother invites him home to a mysterious ceremony involving his father and a tribute...
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p2011
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8 sound discs (10 hr., 3 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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In 1956, 23-year-old Colin Clark began work as a lowly assistant on the set of 'The prince and the showgirl,' the film that united Sir Laurence Olivier with Marilyn Monroe. The blonde bombshell and the legendary actor were ill suited from the start. Clark was perceptive in his assessment of what seemed to be wrong in Monroe's life. Before long, Monroe and Clark spent an innocent week together in the English countryside and Clark became her confidant...
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From Snow White to Moana, from Pinocchio to Frozen, the animated films of Walt Disney Studios have moved and entertained millions. But few fans know that behind these groundbreaking features was an incredibly influential group of women who fought for respect in an often ruthless male-dominated industry and who have slipped under the radar for decades. In The Queens of Animation, bestselling author Nathalia Holt tells their dramatic stories for the...
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2019.
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175 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Meet the heroes and villains from the Marvel Studios movies. Includes characters from Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, The Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Ant-Man, Doctor Strange, Black Panther, and Captain Marvel.
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