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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
261 pages. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the experiences of protagonists from a range of cultures, including a blacklisted Hollywood actor who struggles to connect with his son, and a dissenting gallery worker who begins smuggling and curating underground art.
Author
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Daniel Richardson and his best friend, Hugh Ashley-Hunt, both rising British actors, are in love with the same woman, the free-spirited Tamsyn Burke. Daniel reluctantly steps aside when Tamsyn decides to marry Hugh, but right before the wedding ceremony, Tamsyn is murdered. Suspicion falls on the family, friends, and associates in attendance. Motivated by both Hugh's grief and his own, Daniel joins forces with Tamsyn's younger sister, Carey, to find...
183) Darkling, I listen
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2001
Edition
Unabridged. Library ed.
Physical Desc
15 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At the end of three long years in the penitentiary, movie star Brandon Carlyle's bad boy career is on the skids. He seeks sanctuary with his beloved aunt and uncle in the tiny, eccentric town of Ticky Creek, Texas. But there's nothing about Ticky Creek that's truly peaceful. The local corrupt sheriff, who put him away the first time, is going for him again; the sheriff's sister is going for him too; and, a crazed anonymous fan is stalking him....
Author
Publisher
New Harvest
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xiv, 286 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
" Actors Anonymous is unsettling, funny, personal, and dark, a story told in many forms, from testimonials (in the style of Alcoholics Anonymous) and scripts to letters, diaries, and more. Franco turns his "James Franco" persona inside out--sometimes humorously, often mercilessly. The book brims with profound insights into the nature and purpose of acting, bawdy satires of the high life, as well as deeply moving portraits of aspiring actors who never...
185) Roman + Jewel
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A hip-hopera version of Romeo and Juliet is racing towards Broadway and Jerzie Jhames is cast as the understudy below R & B megastar, Cinny. That would be amazing, but Jerzie had been told the lead was hers -- and when a video of her rehearsing with the leading man is leaked, the internet seems to agree! How much power can Cinny wield to keep the lead and leading man for herself?
186) Best served cold
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the night the Whitebridge Players staged their last ever performance, the idealistic young actors in the company resolved that twenty years on they would return to the same theatre and stage the same play. But two decades later, old resentments have grown and new jealousies have germinated, and it is a very different company that returns to re-enact the Spanish Tragedy. The cast members all have their axes to grind - and some have clear targets...
187) Stars in your eyes
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
v, 341 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Logan Gray is the stereotypical bad boy of Hollywood--a talented but troubled actor who the public loves to hate. Mattie Cole is an up and coming golden boy, adored by all but plagued by insecurities. When Mattie is cast as the love interest in Logan's newest film, the two are persuaded into a fake dating scheme to bring positive publicity to the project. But as the two actors get to know their new characters, real feelings start to develop. And...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
183 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From the day she was born as Norma Jeane Mortenson, to her reigning days as a Hollywood icon, Marilyn Monroe lived a life that was often defined by others. This verse novel revisits Marilyn's often traumatic early life of foster homes, loneliness, sexual abuse, teen marriage, and follows her into a hard-won, meteoric rise to stardom that brought with it exploitation, pill dependency, and depression. In covering moments of extraordinary pain and moments...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
268 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's the summer before Nina's senior year in high school and she needs to get away. She escapes from her family and small town, and enrolls in an acting course in Cape Cod. There, she meets Sarah, a teaching assistant with the theatre program, who captures her heart. Nina knows they are destined to be "coupled and inseparable," as Shakespeare describes the faithful swans of Juno. Bright and independent, Nina has long yearned for a deeper emotional...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
381 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When one of the cast members at the Rue is found dead, Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells must work quickly amidst drama and jealousy to stop a killer from taking center stage.
Author
Publisher
High Top Publications LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"[T]he 1850s. The New York theatre of that era was the Hollywood of its day, with all its trademark insanities. It was everything that was America. Its beauty and excitement, its rise and fall of personalities, its joys and desperations, selfish corruptions and violence. Even its hatred and racism. Enter Colonel Tearwood's American Theatre Company. Helmed by actor Nathanial Luck and playwright Robert Harrison, it revolutionizes the theatre of the...
192) No ordinary life
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Suzanne Redfearn delivers another gripping page-turner in her latest novel, a story about a young mother's fight to protect her children from the dangerous world of Hollywood. Faye Martin never expected her husband to abandon her and her three children ... or that she'd have to struggle every day to make ends meet. So when her four-year-old daughter is discovered through a YouTube video and offered a starring role on a television series, it seems...
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xiv, 345 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Behind the stage lights and word-perfect soliloquies, sinister secrets are lurking in the wings. The mysteries in this collection reveal the dark side to theatre and performing arts: a world of backstage dealings, where unscrupulous actors risk everything to land a starring role, costumed figures lead to mistaken identities, and on-stage deaths begin to look a little too convincing. . . This expertly curated thespian anthology features fourteen stories...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 370
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 650 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
'The sea, the sea' - Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years. None of his plans work out, and his memoir evolves into a riveting chronicle of the strange events and unexpected...
195) Me and Orson Welles
Publisher
Distributed by E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
[Widescreen].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young student finds love in the theater after being cast in a production of Julius Caesar directed by Orson Welles.
Home use only.
196) My kind of perfect
Author
Series
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After her scandalous May-December romance comes to an end, baby of the family Lilly Callaghan returns home to Trillium Bay braced for the torrent of 'I told you sos' from her sisters and the rest of the tiny island community. Floundering both personally and professionally, she's at an emotional crossroads but determined to figure out her next best steps. When a surprise job offer from her house-flipping sister reacquaints Lilly with handsome, free-spirited...
Author
Series
Dinner and a murder mystery volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
269 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a man dies during a performance at Castle Dark, Nora Blake learns just how hard it is to catch a killer, especially if every suspect is a trained actor, in this exciting new Dinner and a Murder Mystery. Autumn has arrived at Castle Dark, and Nora Blake has settled into her role as an actor in Derek Corby's castle murder-mystery troupe. She is troubled, however, by the setting of Derek's fall mystery: the catacombs in the depths of the castle....
198) The hurricane blonde
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A former child starlet is plunged back into the dangerous glitter of Hollywood after discovering the body of a young actress"--
Hollywood is a sickness. Few people understand this better than Salma Lowe, progeny of Hollywood royalty and a former child-star turned guide of the Stars Six Feet Under tour bus. Salma spends her days leading tourists around the star-studded avenues of Hollywood, pointing out where actresses have met spectacular or untimely...
Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
471 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"1968: Actress Gemma Turner once dreamed of stardom. Unfortunately, she's on the cusp of slipping into obscurity. When she's offered the lead in a radical new horror film, Gemma believes her luck has finally changed. But L'Etrange Lune's set is not what she expected. The director is eccentric, and the script doesn't make sense. Gemma is determined to make this work. It's her last chance to achieve her dream-but that dream is about to derail her life....
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Child Star is a fictional documentary-style graphic novel about how growing up in the spotlight robs young actors of a true childhood.--Amazon.com
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