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Author
Language
English
Description
In engaging anecdotes, Carol discusses her remarkable friendships with stars such at Jimmy Stewart, Lucille Ball, Cary Grant, and Julie Andrews; her television show that won twenty-five Emmys in its remarkable eleven-year run; and the sorrows that she overcame with her irresistible humor.
Author
Language
English
Description
Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College,...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
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.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
They were the unlikeliest of pairs--a handsome Italian crooner and a skinny Jewish monkey. The moment they got together, something clicked--and audiences saw it at once. Before long, they were as big as Elvis would be after them, grabbing an unprecedented hold over radio, television, movies, stage shows, and nightclubs. Martin and Lewis were a national craze, an American institution--and then, ten years from the day when the two men joined forces,...
Publisher
Big Idea
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
What is auto-tainment? Larry the cucumber is pretty sure it involves an automated set from the future, singing robotic children and some of the veggies performing bizarre renditions of classic songs. Bob and Larry learn that God still loves them even when the future doesn't work out the way they had hoped.
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Profiles Phoebe Ann Moses, the star sharpshooter of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show under the name Annie Oakley, who began shooting to help feed her family after her father's death.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In exuberant verse and stirring pictures, Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson create an extraordinary portrait of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Louis to the grandest stages in the world. Meticulously researched by both author and artist, Josephine's powerful story of struggle and triumph is an inspiration and a spectacle, just like the legend herself....
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Takes a look into the life of one of the most enigmatic and flamboyant pop stars of our time. Includes Jackson's death and memorial, behind-the-scenes footage, and features candid contributions from Janet Jackson, Brooke Shields, Quincy Jones, Sheryl Crow, and Diana Ross.
14) The Jolson story
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
The film traces the meteoric singing/performing career of Asa Yoelson, a talented cantor's son determined to make it big in the "biz". After changing his name to Al Jolson, he captivated audiences everywhere with his minstrel and jazz performances.
15) Annie Oakley
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Recounts the life of the markswoman and performer who achieved fame with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show.
17) Show boat
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew is a middle-aged governess who finds herself once again unfairly dismissed from her job. Now she must seize the day if she wants a job. She does this by intercepting an employment assignment outside of her comfort level as social secretary. Arriving at a penthouse apartment for the interview, Miss Pettigrew is catapulted into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia...
Publisher
Distributred by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The steps of the studio set towered before her like a pyramid. All Doris Day had to do was dance up and down those steps while wearing a flowing gold lame dress. "You've got to be out of your minds, " Day exclaimed in a voice heard across the soundstage. But dance and sing she did. Day plays a singer who arrives in New York never dreaming it will begin an alternately funny and heartfelt shot at stardom on the Great White Way.
20) Love, Lucy
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Story of Lucille Ball's life from Jamestown, New York, her marriage to Desi Arnaz and their life together, creation of the popular TV show, the production company they founded, and the dissolution of their marriage.
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