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301) Hollywoodland
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On June 16, 1959, police detectives arrive at a Benedict Canyon home to find Superman dead, felled by a single gunshot to the head. LAPD calls it suicide, but Reeves' grieving mother, Helen Bessolo, isn't so sure. She hires private detective Louis Simo to validate her suspicions, centered on George's fiancée, aspiring starlet Leonore Lemmon. Simo turns up suspects 2 and 3: Toni Mannix, aging trophy wife to MGM honcho Eddie Mannix, a tough little...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 23 cm
Description
Dame Joan Collins has always believed that one should retain some mystery in life and hide a knowing smile behind one's shoulder pads. In her new book, she returns in dazzling form to share her most memorable moments from her eclectic and vibrant life--in and out of the limelight. Behind the Shoulder Pads will take you on a spectacular journey from her early years as a young star in Hollywood to stamping her stilettos in Dynasty; from the glittering...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood's most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth, and a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives, from high-priced lawyers to elite war-hardened spies, mounted a secret campaign of intimidation, threatening his career, following his every move, and weaponizing an account of abuse...
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
xiv, 289 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
"This biography traces Buster Keaton's career from his early days in vaudeville - where, as a rambunctious five-year-old, his father threw him around the stage - to his becoming one of the brightest stars of silent film's Golden Age." "Taking what he knew from vaudeville - ingenuity, athleticism, audacity, and wit - Keaton applied his hand to the new medium of film, proving himself a prodigious acrobat and brilliant writer, gagman, director, and actor....
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Gwen Hollingsworth is the curator at a museum in Nova Scotia dedicated to the Hollywood legend Scarlett Fontaine's life. Gwen is also sole descendant and heir to Scarlett's fortune. Gwen is dealing with a messy marital separation and is struggling to move forward. So when Peter Miller, a biographer and photojournalist, come to the museum with shocking claims about Scarlett, which include a life of exile in Alaska and a baby born in secret, Gwen's...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
42 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Description
Hedy Lamarr became a movie legend, but her true loves were always science and engineering. During World War II, Hedy collaborated with another inventor on an innovative technology called frequency hopping. It was designed to prevent the enemy from jamming torpedo radio signals and commanding weapons to go off course. Frequency hopping is still used today to keep our cell phone messages private and defend our computers from hackers. In this biography,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xix, 858 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Description
"With her arrival on the music scene in the early 1980s, Madonna generated nothing short of an explosion-as great as that of Elvis or the Beatles-taking the nation by storm with her liberated politics and breathtaking talent. Within two years of her 1983 debut album, a flagship Macy's store in Manhattan held a Madonna look-a-like contest featuring Andy Warhol as a judge, and opened a department called "Madonna-land." But Madonna was more than just...
309) Bowfinger
Pub. Date
c2000.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With the help of Jiff Ramsey, brother to Hollywood's biggest star, Hollywood's least successful director stops at nothing to get him into his latest low-budget film.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xii, 123 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"Twelve biographies follow the career paths of Native people who work in the complex entertainment industry, either in front of or behind the camera. Included are descriptions of what each member of a production team does, as well as advice on what it takes to get started in the entertainment industry"--
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