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Author
Language
English
Description
Now, at a turning point in her life, comes her most revealing and exciting book yet. Outspoken, controversial, talented, and perceptive Shirley MacLaine now takes us on an intimate and fascinating personal odyssey. In 1984 she won an Oscar, starred on Broadway, wrote the best-selling Out on a Limb — and turned fifty years old. At this special time, in this special...
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A popular husband-and-wife entertainer team, making their move from radio to television, believe their lives will be complete when they can start a family. When they decide to adopt, they face problems and disappointments and are ultimately rewarded with an overabundance of babies.
Publisher
Lamplight Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Lt. Dan Band: for the common good is the award winning feature length documentary that transcends genres and celebrates America's heroes. This moving film chronicles the journey of Gary Sinise, who since 9/11, has vowed never to forget those who are willing to give all..
Publisher
Marketed by Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Shows Bette Midler's creative and personal journey from her Hawaiian childhood to stardom. Includes interviews with Bette Midler and her friends, early TV appearances, scenes from her movies, and several song performances.
Author
Language
English
Description
In his lifetime, Bob Hope was the only entertainer to achieve top-rated success in every major mass-entertainment medium. A household name, he virtually invented stand-up comedy. Hope is a celebration of an entertainer whose vast contribution has never been properly appreciated, and a complex portrait of a gifted but flawed man who truly loved being famous, appreciated its responsibilities, and handled celebrity with extraordinary grace.
11) The entertainer
Publisher
Movie Ventures
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009?]
Language
English
Description
A drama of seedy music hall life centering on Archie Rice, an egotistical, third-rate British music hall performer whose career and personal life are in a down-hill spiral.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
From the beloved and bestselling actress, a book about her experiences filming Wild Oats in the Canary Islands - which brings forth memories of a past life on the lost continent of Atlantis. This is a terrific companion to the movie, telling the behind-the-scenes, over-the-top story of how the film came to be made, along with extraordinary new past-life recollections that Shirley experienced while on set.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
An orphan adopted by a kind hotel manager who rents rooms to down-on-their-luck entertainers lives happily enough until the owner of the hotel complains about the noise her showbiz friends make and threatens to close the hotel and send her back to the orphanage.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A world at war. A beautiful young star. A mission no one expected. Paris, 1944. Celebrated singer Genevieve Dumont is both a star and a smokescreen. An unwilling darling of the Nazis, the chanteuse's position of privilege allows her to go undetected as an ally to the resistance. When her estranged mother, Lillian de Rocheford, is captured by Nazis, Genevieve knows it won't be long before the Gestapo succeeds in torturing information out of Lillian...
Author
Publisher
Pgw
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The new book from award-winning historian W. Scott Poole is a whip-smart piece of pop culture detailing the story of cult horror figure Vampira that actually tells the much wider story of 1950s America and its treatment of women and sex, as well as capturing a fascinating swath of Los Angeles history. In Vampire, Poole gives us the eclectic life of the dancer, stripper, actress, and artist Maila Nurmi, who would reinvent herself as Vampira during...
18) That's amore
Publisher
Dean Martin Family Trust
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A performance-driven special with musical performances and a mini-documentary that puts Dean's life and career in perspective. Featuring 25 classic Dean Martin performances.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The son of a woman who works at a U.S. Army base in Germany in the 1950s, Orson becomes an ardent fan of a G.I. stationed at the base, but when he steals recordings of Elvis Presley's music, he attracts the attention of the popular singer, launching a friendship that lasts a lifetime.