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2) Dead eyes
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
6) River's end
Author
Language
English
Description
Olivia's parents were among Hollywood's golden couples...until the night a monster came and took her mother away forever. A monster with the face of her father... Sheltered from the truth, an older Olivia only dimly recalls her night of terror--but her recurring nightmares make her realize she must piece together the real story. Assisted by Noah Brady, the son of the officer who found her cowering in her closet so many years before, she may have...
7) Private L.A
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Thom and Jennifer Harlow are the perfect couple, with three perfect children. They maybe two of the biggest mega movie stars in the world, but they're also great parents, philanthropists and just all-around good people. When they disappear without a word from their ranch, facts are hard to find. They live behind such a high wall of security and image control that even world-renowned Private Investigator Jack Morgan can't get to the truth. But as...
Author
Series
Crumley Mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
On a dismal evening, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door -- and once again admits a dangerous icon into his life. Constance Rattigan, an aging, once-glamorous Hollywood star, stands soaked and shivering in his foyer, clutching two anonymously delivered books that have sent her running in fear from something she dares not acknowledge: twin lists of the Tinseltown dead and soon-to-be dead...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Pub Corp
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Set in the dream factory of the 1940s, this glittering debut novel follows a young Hollywood hopeful into a star-studded web of scandal, celebrity, and murder... The chipped pink nail polish is a dead giveaway -- no pun intended. When a human thumb is discovered near a Hollywood nightclub, it doesn't take long for the police to identify its owner. Miss Penny Harp would recognize that pink anywhere: it belongs to her best friend, Rosemary. And so...
11) The fame thief
Author
Series
Junior Bender mystery volume 3
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Hollywood mob boss-turned-movie king Irwin Dressler is ninety-three years old, but Los Angeles burglar Junior Bender is quaking in his boots when Dressler's henchmen haul him in for a meeting. Dressler wants Junior to solve a crime committed more than sixty years ago: once-famous starlet Dolores La Marr had her career destroyed after compromising photos were taken of her at a Las Vegas party. Dressler wants justice for Dolores and the shining career...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Who is trying to kill the world's greatest lover? Though Bianca LaBelle, star of the wildly popular silent movie serial 'The Adventures of Bianca Dangereuse,' and Rudolph Valentino, the greatest screen idol of all time, have been friends for years, in the summer of 1926 they are making their first picture together, a steamy romance called 'Grand Obsession.' One evening after dinner at Bianca's fabulous Beverly Hills estate, a troubled Rudy confesses...
14) The wrong girl
Author
Series
Adventures of Bianca Dangereuse volume 1
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In February of 1926, private detective Ted Oliver is hired by a mysterious client to investigate the death of Graham Peyton, a man known for recruiting high-class prostitutes for the studios until his disappearance five years ago. Thanks to a ferocious Pacific storm, Graham's skeleton is uncovered from its hiding place, under rocks beneath a cliff. As Oliver investigates the final days leading up to Graham's demise, he stumbles across a connection...
15) Southland tales
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In 2008, the United States is a virtual police state, with the government taking control of nearly every part of people's lives. A German firm has found a way to generate energy using seawater, but both public and private concerns are desperate to prevent the new technology from being introduced in the gasoline-starved United States. Boxer Santaros is an actor famous for his role in action films. He is currently trying to secure financing for a new...
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
For Vince, Eric, Drama, and Turtle, life in Hollywood's fast lane can be an intoxicating roller-coaster of a ride. After hitting some speed bumps the last couple of year, Vince's career is in high gear after his role in a new Martin Scorsese film. But now that Vince is back on top, is it finally time for the entourage to step out of his shadow?
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Movie star Vincent Chase, together with his boys, Eric, Turtle, and Johnny, is back, and back in business with super agent turned studio head Ari Gold. Some of their ambitions have changed, but the bond between them remains strong as they navigate the capricious and often cutthroat world of Hollywood.
Publisher
Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Ben is an overburdened movie producer. He tries to balance his life and has to contend with the never-ending demands of 2 ex-wives, his ice-queen studio head, and a menagerie of various Hollywood prima donnas. Ben manages to take it all in stride. He copes by exuding a smoothly assuring demeanor. The only thing that really seems to upset Ben is when he discovers that his ex-wife sleeps with one of his colleagues.
Series
Language
English
Description
Based on the novel by Carrie Fisher about her life in the Hollywood fast lane. Suzanne Vale is a wise-cracking, vulnerable actress determined to jump start her failing career. Her mother, an aging movie star is the definitive portrait of Hollywood's gutsy glamour queens and, of course, offers her daughter only razor sharp humor and searing honesty.
20) The fade out
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Hollywood, 1948--A noir film stuck in endless reshoots. A writer plagued by nightmares from the war. A movie starlet's suspicious death. Her replacement's suspicious past. And a mogul and his security chief willing to do anything to keep the cameras rolling, as the Red Scare and the blacklist begin to tear the town apart."--Back cover.