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Summary: "The little-known story of screenwriter Salka Viertel, whose salons in 1930s and 40s Hollywood created a refuge for a multitude of famous figures who had escaped the horrors of World War ll. Hollywood was created by its "others"; that is, by women, Jews, and immigrants. Salka Viertel was all three and so much more. She was the screenwriter for five of Greta Garbo's movies and also her most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VIERTEL, SALKA RIFSummary: Michael Almereyda blazes a wild path through mid-20th-century Hollywood via the experiences of Hampton Fancher, a flamenco dancer, actor, and the unlikely producer and screenwriter of the landmark sci-fi classic Blade Runner. A consummate raconteur, Fancher recounts episodes from his remarkable life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grasshopper Film 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ESCSherman, Casey
Summary: "Hollywood starlet Lana Turner was one Tinseltown's most recognizable faces in the 1940s and 50s. But, when the Academy Award-winning actress began dating mobster Johnny Stompanato-a thug for west coast mob boss Mickey Cohen-all the lights and glamor of Hollywood did not brighten the darkness of her personal life. Johnny's intense jealousy over Lana ruled their relationship from the get-go and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 SHESummary: Award-winning true crime documentary explores the lives and untimely passings of Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean, two Black gay men who both died from meth overdoses at the home of West Hollywood politico Ed Buck. Powerful and galvanizing, simultaneously investigates the crimes and offers a cautionary tale to keep these events from repeating.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GEMBailey, Mark
Summary: From the frontier days of silent film up to the wild auteur period of the 1970s, Mark Bailey has pillaged the vaults of Hollywood history and lore to dig up the true--and often surprising--stories of seventy of our most beloved actors, directors, and screenwriters at their most soused
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979 BAIDrabkin, Ronald
Summary: "In the spirit of Ben Macintyre's greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland--a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars-who flipped to become a spy for Japan in the lead-up to the attack on Pearl Harbor"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RUTLAND, FREDERICK DRABasinger, Jeanine
Summary: "The real story of Hollywood--as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine Hepburn, Alfred Hitchcock, Harold Lloyd, Jordan Peele, and nearly four hundred others--reveals a fresh history of the American movie industry from its beginnings to today"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.4309 BASVan Landingham, Andrea
Summary: "Features known and lesser-known stories from Hollywood such as the Black Dahlia murder, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's trial for the murder of Virginia Rappe, Johnny Stompanato's murder, and more"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 384 VANHulls, Tessa
Summary: "Tessa Hulls delves into her own family history and the intergenerational trauma caused by mental illness and political strife"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 HULLS, TESSA HULGould, Melissa
Summary: Melissa Gould's hopeful memoir of grieving outside the box and the surprising nature of love. When Melissa Gould's husband, Joel, was unexpectedly hospitalized, she could not imagine how her life was about to change. Overwhelmed with uncertainty as Joel's condition tragically worsened, she offered him the only thing she could: her love and devotion. Her dedication didn't end with his death....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOULD, MELISSA GOUSarlot, Raymond R.
Summary: Presents a history of the well-known Los Angeles hotel, along with stories and anecdotes of the famous actors and celebrities who have stayed there from its opening in 1929 up to the present day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 647.95794 SARSummary: Discover the secrets of Hollywood storytelling. Fifty screenwriters share the inside scoop about how they surmounted incredible odds to break into the business, how they transformed their ideas into box-office blockbusters, how their words helped launch the careers of major stars, and how they earned accolades and Academy Awards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperEntertainment 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.23 TALSummary: Chronicles the lives and careers of Harold Michelson, a storyboard artist and production designer, and his wife Lillian, a film researcher, who eloped to Hollywood in 1947 and worked for six decades, their combined filmography totaling hundreds of movies for which their contributions went mostly uncredited.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HARSummary: Television's favorite defective detective returns to DVD to solve a new batch of baffling mysteries with his trademark wit, wisdom ... and hand wipes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MONSummary: The complete third season of what the New York Post calls 'the best detective show to come along in decades'. Tony Shalhoub plays obsessive-compulsive detective Monk, who assists police in their most baffling cases.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Video 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MONMorris, Heather
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Heather Morris comes the memoir of a life of listening to others. In Listening Well, Heather will explore her extraordinary talents as a listener-a skill she employed when she first met Lale Sokolov, the tattooist at Auschwitz-Birkenau and the inspiration for her bestselling novel. It was this ability that led Lale to entrust Heather with his story, which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MORRIS, HEATHER MORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B MORRIS MORAnastasio, Dina
Summary: "Who HQ rolls out the red carpet for Where Is Hollywood?--the film capital of the world. Developed in the 1880s by Midwesterners looking for a sunny winter getaway, Hollywood was a small housing development outside still-small Los Angeles. But everythingchanged in the early 1900s when filmmakers from New York flocked to the area, where they could make movies without having to pay Thomas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 384.8 ANABasten, Fred E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: General Publishing Group 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 BASStein, Jean.
Summary: "An epic, mesmerizing oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles by the author of the contemporary classic Edie; Jean Stein influenced the art of oral history in her groundbreaking book Edie : American Girl, an indelible portrait of Andy Warhol 'superstar' Edie Sedgwick. Now, in West of Eden, Stein turns her lens toward the city Sedgwick came from--Los Angeles--and a mythic cast of fortune...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979 STEDi Mambro, Dina
Contents: William Desmond Taylor: The unsolved murder (1922) -- The Hearst affair: The mysterious death of Thomas H. Ince (1924) -- Jean Harlow: Last night was only a comedy (1932) -- Thelma Todd: The ice cream blonde (1935) -- Joan Bennett: The shot that killed a film career (1951) -- Lana Turner and Johnny Stompanato: The story you haven't heard (1958) -- George Reeves: Who killed Superman? (1959) --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Di Mambro 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.436 DIMRails-to-Trails Conservancy
Summary: "All across the country, unused railroad corridors have been converted into public multiuse trails. Level and accessible, these paths are ideal for a brisk fitness walk, bike ride, or stroll with the family. In Rail-Trails California, the experts from Rails-to-Trails Conservancy present the best of these routes, as well as other multiuse pathways. Many rail-trails are paved and run within view...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.94 CALBernstein, Walter.
Summary: The author recalls the years of anti-Communist hysteria in the United States when he was blacklisted, a label that was responsible for the ruin of many careers in film, radio, and television, discussing how he was forced to write under an assumed name, and looking at other members of the Hollywood community who shared his struggle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1996