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82) The hole story
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
A young movie director tries to solve the mystery of some melted lake ice in Minnesota for a television series pilot he is creating.
83) All for Melissa
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
a quirky romantic comedy, an aspiring filmmaker finds himself torn between his fixation with a red-hot actress, who doesn't know he exists, and the chance at a realistic romance.
Author
Pub. Date
1989
Description
In 1895, teenager Schmuel Goldfisz left the Warsaw ghetto to become Samuel Goldwyn, one of the most acclaimed producers in Hollywood history. Among Goldwyn' s films are such classics as The Pride of the Yankees, Wuthering Heights, and The Bishop' s Wife - all famous for conveying the " Goldwyn Touch." In this detailed biography, acclaimed author A. Scott Berg recounts the fascinating life of one of the most colorful personalities of Hollywood' s Golden...
86) Movie director
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Amazing photography accompanies engaging information about movie directors. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Superstar producer Peter Dragon builds his stellar career on the three pillars of show business--prostitution, nepotism, and dishonesty. Adding to that an ego as big as a Beverly Hills mansion, the aptly named Dragon and his cohorts manage to be politically incorrect, backstabbing, phony, petty, and ingeniously funny.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
In the history of American popular culture, there is no more dramatic story - no swifter or loftier ascent to the pinnacle of success and no more tragic downfall - than that of Orson Welles. In this magisterial biography, Patrick McGilligan brings young Orson into focus as never before. He chronicles Welles's early life growing up in Wisconsin and Illinois as the son of an alcoholic industrialist and a radical suffragist and classical musician, and...
Author
Pub. Date
[1979]
Description
A Rolls Royce Silver Cloud drove him to airports; the British film industry kowtowed to his power; the great Hollywood studios fawned at his feet. Sir Alexander Korda, one of the world's most flamboyant movie tycoons, rose from obscurity in rural Hungary to become a legendary filmmaker. With him were his brothers, Zoltan and Vincent, all living charmed lives in circles that included H. G. Wells, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Marlena Dietrich, Vivien Leigh,...
93) Steven Spielberg
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Prolific director, writer and producer of such films as Saving Private Ryan, E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, Jurassic Park, and others.
95) King Kong
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
In the 1930s, a down-on-her-luck actress accompanies an over-ambitious filmmaker on an expedition to a remote island. There they encounter a terrifying giant ape who forms an attachment to the beautiful actress. Hoping to win fame and fortune, the filmmaker brings the ape back to New York City for public exhibition, with catastrophic results.
97) The law of love
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Lawless: "Half Apache and all man, Jake Redman was more than a match for the wild Arizona Territory. Sarah Conway, on the other hand, was an Eastern lady who belonged anywhere else but on the rugged land Jake loved. But beneath Sarah's ladylike demeanor beat the heart of a true pioneer, a woman he yearned to make his own."--p. [4] of cover.
The law is a lady: "Once Phillip Kincaid fixed his mind on something, he set about getting it. And as soon...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
It tells of a series of reencounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the '60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the '80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense.
99) Ed Wood
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
A stranger-than-fiction true story of the early career of Edward D. Wood, Jr., the once voted worst movie director of all time. Wood was the auteur behind Glen or Glenda? and Plan 9 from outer space, and it is during the making of these two no-budget flicks that Wood is profiled.
100) How It All Went Down
Pub. Date
2009
Description
"In order to finance his newest film 'V.I.O.L.E.N.T", Carmine 'Istante' Cavelli returns to the streets where he grew up to sell cocaine. But drug-dealing isn't without its consequences as the lives of everyone around him come tumbling down"--Container.