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Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now?
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English
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The Amazing Arden is the most famous female illusionist of her day, renowned for her notorious trick of sawing a man in half on stage. One night in Waterloo, Iowa, with young policeman Virgil Holt watching from the audience, she swaps her trademark saw for a fire ax. Is it a new version of the illusion, or an all-too-real murder? When Arden's husband is found lifeless beneath the stage later that night, the answer seems clear. But when Virgil happens...
3) Satin rouge
Publisher
Zeitgeist Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Arabic
Description
A Tunisian widow embarks on a journey of self-discovery when she is drawn to the world of cabaret belly dancers.
Author
Language
English
Description
Tyson has been blessed to grace the stage and screen for six decades. She has been the church girl who once rarely spoke a word; the teenager who sought solace in the verses of the old hymn for which this book is named. A daughter and mother, a sister, and a friend, she is also an observer of human nature and the dreamer of audacious dreams. Here, in her ninth decade, Tyson is a woman who has something meaningful to say. -- adapted from jacket
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (76 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
When a hat-check girl loses her job, she is forced to pretend to be the mistress of a duke to get a job as a dancer at a roadhouse where she falls in love with the son of a rich businessman.
8) Annie Oakley
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Series
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
102 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A singing-dancing sister act is helped by a mysterious "somebody" who buys them an empty warehouse, where they can open up an ideal canteen to entertain the servicemen. Courtship by the Army & Navy, the mystery of who "somebody" might be, and a multitude of musical numbers occupy their time at the canteen.
12) Haunted destiny
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Series
Krewe of Hunters volume 18
Language
English
Description
Between the evil and the deep blue sea...
A historic cruise ship, a haunted ship, the Celtic American Line's Destiny, sets sail from the Port of New Orleans—with a killer on board.He's known as the Archangel Killer because of the way he displays his victims in churches. And how he places a different saint's medallion on each body. No one knows exactly who he is or why he's doing this.
Jackson Crow—head of the FBI's Krewe...
A historic cruise ship, a haunted ship, the Celtic American Line's Destiny, sets sail from the Port of New Orleans—with a killer on board.He's known as the Archangel Killer because of the way he displays his victims in churches. And how he places a different saint's medallion on each body. No one knows exactly who he is or why he's doing this.
Jackson Crow—head of the FBI's Krewe...
Series
Criterion collection volume 806
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Language
English
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A traveling entertainer gets more than she bargained for during a stopover in a South American port town. There she meets a handsome yet aloof daredevil pilot, who runs an airmail company, staring down death while servicing towns in treacherous mountain terrain. Both attracted to and repelled by his romantic sense of danger, she decides to stay on, despite his protestations.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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...
16) Beaches
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Language
English
Description
One is rich and pampered. The other, poor and ambitious. Never has there been a friendship that made more sense.
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Series
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English
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You want girl power? Meet Annie Oakley! Born in 1860, she became one of the best-loved and most famous women of her generation. She amazed audiences all over the world with her sharpshooting, horse-riding, action-packed performances. In an age when most women stayed home, she traveled the world and forged a new image for American women.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
612 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Leni Riefenstahl and Marlene Dietrich both came of age in Weimar Berlin, a time of great political ferment. Both women seized upon the revolutionary energy of the 1920s, seeking careers on the stage and in film. In the 1930s, Riefenstahl became the official filmmaker of the Third Reich, a progenitor of fascist symbolism. Dietrich's slender and androgynous beauty made her a fashion icon. Both women had their grand passions, but neither abandoned ambition...
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