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2) Flickers
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
As a brash British movie pioneer, Arnie forms an unlikely partnership with Maude that starts out strictly business and grows into a real romance.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"With fame, fortune and fans galore, silent screen idol Don Lockwood thought he had it all. But one look at aspiring actress Kathy Seldon, and he knew exactly what he was missing. Now he's swinging from lampposts, singing in the raindrops and ready for love. With talking pictures on the rise, Don sets out to make a musical with the woman of his dreams, but one thing stands in his way, his jealous co-star who wants Don--and the leading role--all to...
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The leading man has just had a disastrous one-night stand with the leading lady. The cinematographer is breaking up with the assistant director. The director's mother has wandered onto the set and the dwarf hired for the dream sequence has an attitude.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Meet the Weiss family, who are making their way in Hollywood rife with money, fame, envy, and relentless hauntings. Stafford Weiss is a famed TV self-help therapist with an A-list celebrity clientele. Meanwhile, Cristina Weiss has her work cut out managing the career of their disaffected child-star son, Benjie, a fresh graduate of rehab at age thirteen. Yet unbeknownst to them, another member of the Weiss family has arrived in town, mysteriously...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From 1958 to 1963, American actor Rick Dalton knew the height of fame and fortune as the lead in the television series Bounty Law. Yet, Rick wasn't satisfied with the work and used his popularity to try to become a movie star. By 1969, Rick's career has stalled so much that he takes jobs as a guest star on various shows. He even starts wondering if the only way he can make a comeback is by acting in Italian productions. Cliff Booth, Rick's long-time...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
"In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighboring island to film a documentary. No one is more excited than Cripple Billy, an unloved boy whose chief occupation has been gazing at cows and yearning for a girl who wants no part of him. For Billy is determined to cross the sea and audition for the Yank. And as news of his audacity ripples through his rumor-starved community, The Cripple...
11) The Artist
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Description
In 1927, George Valentin is a silent movie superstar. However, the advent of the talkies will kill his career and he will sink into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller, it seems the sky's the limit as major movie stardom awaits. Though their careers are taking different paths their destinies will become entwined.
12) My geisha
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
An American actress disguises herself as a geisha and tries to convince her husband-director that she is right for the part in his film version of Madame Butterfly.
14) The star
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Movie queen Margaret Elliot's popularity and fortune have gone bad. But she's sure she can jump-start her dimming career. "One good picture is all I need" she says.
15) A star is born
Publisher
Osiris Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"As young Esther Blodgett rises to stardom, her husband, former leading man Norman Maine, finds his career in a downward spiral." --
Publisher
Newport Public Library
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
As a band singer is discovered and guided to heights of show-business success by an alcoholic ex-matinee idol, she performs one superb song after another in a production that exhilarates with its craft and style even as its story moves toward a heartbreaking finale.
17) Searchers 2.0
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"As child actors, Mel and Fred were beaten and whipped by an imperious screenwriter, Fritz Frobisher. Now the elderly Fritz is to appear at a tee-shirt signing ceremony in Monument Valley, AZ, where his great films were made. Still living in LA and seeking work as actors, Mel and Fred decide to go to Monument Valley and give Fritz a drubbing."--Container.
18) Hollywood ending
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Val Waxman is a one-time cinematic genius down on his luck. Luckily, he receives a script for a period noir set against the backdrop of 1940s New York City. His ex-wife has managed to convince a high-powered studio head, to take a chance on Val's "unique vision." Just when the cameras are ready to roll, however, Val finds that unique vision in jeopardy -- literally -- as he's struck with a psychosomatic case of blindness. When efforts to cure him...
19) Full frontal
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Francesca and Calvin are actors performing in a motion picture directed by David Fincher and co-starring Brad Pitt (who play themselves). Woven in and out of the film production story thread are several other subplots including one about a lovelorn woman, Linda; the self-absorbed Gus; and a husband, Carl, whose wife is falling for Calvin.
20) The last tycoon
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
A Hollywood studio head is haunted by the memory of a lost love from his youth.
