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Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
On the morning after the 2003 Academy Awards, Max--an Oscar-winning writer/director whose fame has waned--and his lover, Elena, are in bed, still groggy from last night's red-carpet festivities. They are talking about movies, talking about love, talking about the just-begun war in Iraq. But a house full of guests demands attention. They share their stories of Hollywood past and present; they watch films in Max's luxe screening room; they gossip by...
63) The lawgiver
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Margo Solovei, a brilliant young writer-director has rejected her rabbinical father's strict Jewish upbringing to pursue a career in the arts. When an Australian multi-billionaire promises to finance a movie about Moses if the script meets certain standards, Margo does everything she can to land the job, including a reunion with her estranged first love, an influential lawyer with whom she still has unfinished business.
Author
Series
Backstage pass volume 2
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Athena Pappas is the head writer on one of the most popular sitcoms in television history. But when Vegas comedian Stephen Cosse is brought in to beef up the show's suddenly sagging ratings, she starts to worry about her job. Sparks fly as the competition--and attraction--between the two writers heats up. Athena has never had a problem scripting the romances of her characters. So why is her own love life so hard to script?
65) Not without you
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"From international favorite and bestseller Harriet Evans, an absorbing and intriguing new novel about a famous modern-day actress whose fate becomes entwined with that of a glamourous movie star from the 1950s who vanished many years earlier"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
It's 1937 Los Angeles. When her former roommate and party girl, Ruby Carroll, is murdered, Lillian Frost must team up with actress Edith Head to solve the mystery, which pits them against a Hungarian princess on a lam, a hotshot director on the make and a private investigator who's not on the level.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two young women two generations apart discover the joy and heartbreak of following their dreams. Aspiring Hollywood actress Violet makes a shocking choice in 1940, and seventy years later, Mari sets out to discover what happened on that long ago summer. Santa Cruz, Summer 1940: When auburn-haired Violet Harcourt is crowned Miss California on the boardwalk of her hometown, she knows she is one step closer to her cherished dream: a Hollywood screen...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For thirty-year-old Frankie Simon, selling movie memorabilia in the shop she opened with her late mother on Hollywood Boulevard is more than just her livelihood - it's an enduring connection to the only family she has ever known. But when a mysterious package arrives containing a photograph of her mother and famous movie stars Glory Cartwright and her husband at a coastal film festival the year before Frankie's birth, her life begins to unravel in...
69) One extra corpse
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
May, 1924. When renowned film director Ernst Zapolya calls Emma Blackstone -- companion to Hollywood movie star Kitty Flint -- and demands to see Kitty at once, Emma's not surprised. Until, that is, he adds that lives depend on it. Emma and Kitty investigate, and after a shocking discovery, the lives on the line soon include their own...
Author
Series
Publisher
Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Someone has stolen the golden Cuckoo statues from the famous Cuckoo film studios and the awards ceremony is in two days time. Only William is debonair enough to schmooze the stars and learn who the culprit is. But every cat has his own feline fatale to contend with, and our hero is no exception.
71) A star is bored
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Charlie Besson is about to have an insane job interview. His car is idling, like his life, outside the Hollywood mansion of Kathi Kannon. THE Kathi Kannon, star of stage and screen and People magazine's worst dressed list. She needs an assistant. He needs a hero. Kathi is an icon, bestselling author, and an award winning actress, most known for her role as Priestess Talara in the iconic blockbuster sci-fi film. She's also known for another role:...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
The first African-American woman to win an Academy Award, Hattie McDaniel, when the Oscar curse sets in, is thrust in the middle of two worlds--black and white--and is not welcomed in either but, through it all, continued her fight to pave a path for other Negro actors.
73) Love me do
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Greetings card copywriter Phoebe Chapman knows a good romantic line or two--and it makes her a fantastic Cupid. So when she lands in the Hollywood Hills--a place that proves film stars, golden beaches and secret waterfalls don't just exist in the movies--she can't resist playing matchmaker for her handsome neighbor, carpenter Ren. But you can't hide from love in La La Land. And isn't there something a little bit hot about Ren, her own leading...
74) The love script
Author
Series
Love in the spotlight volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Hollywood hair stylist and makeup artist Neveah loves making those in the spotlight look their best. But when the spotlight is on her after a photo of her and Hollywood heartthrob Lamont goes viral for all the wrong reasons, they suddenly find themselves in a fake relationship to save their careers. In a world where nothing seems real, can Neveah be true to herself...and her heart?"--
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Hollywood, the late 1930s. Raymond Chandler writes detective stories for pulp magazines, and drinks more than he should. Boris Karloff plays monsters in the movies. Together, they investigate mysterious matters in a town run by human and inhuman monsters. Joh Devlin, an investigator for the DA's office who scores high on insubordination, enlists the pair to work a case that threatens to expose Hollywood's most horrific secrets. Together they will...
76) Killer physique
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Plus-sized P.I. Savannah Reid gets a taste of the high life when she attends a Hollywood premiere on the arm of husband Dirk Coulter. Savannah may be a newlywed, but even she gets weak in the knees when she meets celebrity athlete-turned-movie-star Jason Tyrone. So imagine how she feels when the star's rock-hard body is found rock-hard dead... Some guys have everything. With his stunning looks and dazzling charm, Jason Tyrone is America's favorite...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Before Boris Karloff's memorable portrayal of Frankenstein, another famous 1930s Hollywood icon, Bela Lugosi, tested for the part of the monster.The screen test footage was lost for decades, until Valentino, that never-say-die film archivist, gets a hot tip about the whereabouts of the incriminating (for really bad, heavily accented acting) footage. But it comes with a price far greater than the money he'll have to pay. Someone would kill to get that...
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 5
Publisher
Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When film producer Moe Block Busters offers to make their book into a movie, Iggy, Olive, and Seymour head to Hollywood where Olive, furious at being written out of the script, enlists the help of a famed femme fatale to scare the despicable director half to death.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A semi-autobiographical novel follows the experiences of a successful but lonely, slightly overweight movie star who seeks to escape depression through a new romance and an Oscar-worthy role, only to discover the universe's alternative plans."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial Paperback
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Once he had his own TV series, but now Rick Dalton's a washed-up villain-of-the week drowning his sorrows in whiskey sours. Will a phone call from Rome save his fate or seal it? Cliff Booth is Rick's stunt double, and the most infamous man on any movie set because he's the only one there who might have gotten away with murder. Sharon Tate left Texas to chase a movie-star dream, and found it. Sharon's salad days are now spent on Cielo Drive, high in...
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