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2024.
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"For decades, Rebel Wilson had single-mindedly focused on her career, making a name for herself through her iconic roles in Pitch Perfect, Bridesmaids, and Isn’t It Romantic. Now, she’s ready to chronicle the emotional and physical lessons she learned, as well as her most embarrassing experiences. A malaria-induced hallucination? An all-style martial arts fighting tournament? Junior handling at dog shows? And this was all BEFORE she moved to Hollywood!...
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c2007
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Marion Morrison, born in Winterset, Iowa, also known as John Wayne, defined the myth of the Old West from the silver screen for five decades. This new book examines his early life and his first roles in Hollywood, uncovering the true stories behind the screen legend's highly publicized and sometimes controversial public life. The Young Duke, undertaken with the assistance of the Wayne family, offers an unflinching look at this icon's early years....
63) Cloris
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Film and television actress tells her life story and career challenges while raising five children. She comments on her friends in both the entertainment industry and politics.
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2023.
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"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....
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Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born.
68) Angel Falls
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Nestled in a splendid log house near the glaciered mountain peaks of the Cascades, Mikaela Campbell and her family have an enviable life - until she suffers a fall while horseback riding. As she lies in a coma for weeks, her husband, Liam, tries to soothe her and coax her back, holding her hand, brushing her hair and singing to her. Then he learns that Mikaela had a secret past - a marriage to one of the world's biggest movie stars, Julian True. As...
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2016.
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"Daniel Sullivan, a young American professor reeling from a failed marriage and a brutal custody battle, is on holiday in Ireland when he falls in love with Claudette, a world famous sexual icon and actress who fled fame for a reclusive life in a rural village. Together, they make an idyllic life in the country, raising two more children in blissful seclusion until a secret from Daniel's past threatens to destroy their meticulously constructed and...
71) Bruce Lee
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2019.
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IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Born in San Francisco but raised in Hong Kong, Bruce Lee was the child star of Hong Kong cinema appearing in his first of many films at just three months old. But, after getting into trouble as a teenager, his father sent him to live in America. Starring roles were hard to come by for Asian-American actors in Hollywood, but by harnessing his skill as a martial artist, Bruce created, directed, and acted in blockbuster hits such as "Enter the Dragon'....
72) The Artist
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c2012
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George Valentin is a silent movie superstar who is losing his job and Peppy Miller is a young extra who has many prospects in her career.
73) Genuine Lies
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She is the last of the movie goddesses, and the greatest: a smoky-voiced sex symbol who clawed her way to the top. Eve has decided to write her memoirs-no holds barred. All Hollywood bege her not to. But Eve has her reasons.
75) The bodyguard
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2022.
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"New York Times bestselling author Katherine Center's The Bodyguard is unabashedly romantic, laugh-out-loud funny, and the perfect summer read. She's got his back. Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. Or a ballpoint pen. Or a dinner napkin. But the truth is, she's an Executive Protection Agent (aka "bodyguard"), and she just got hired to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton...
77) The cottage
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A movie star, out of economic necessity, has to rent out rooms in his enormous Bel Air estate called The Cottage
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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 pious...
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2023.
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The award-winning master biographer chronicles the meteoric rise and enduring influence of the greatest female pop icon of the modern era who has never stopped experimenting, pushing boundaries that changed culture globally, and fiercely defending a person's right to love whomever-and be whoever -they wanted.
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