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Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1123
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a gigolo and drifter, Chance Wayne, who returns to his hometown as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago (traveling incognito as Princess Kosmonopolis), whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. The main reason for his homecoming is to get back what he had in his youth: primarily, his old girlfriend, whose father had run him out of town years before. The play was written for Tallulah Bankhead, a good...
3) Buffalo gal
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Description
76 pages ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"...The comedy tells the story of Amanda, a successful television actress who, fallen on hard times, returns to the stage in her hometown of Buffalo, hoping to recharge her career and connect with her roots. Art imitates life as she prepares the role of Madame Ranyevskaia, a character from Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard who returns home after many years absence."
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
American actress Karen Stone flees to Italy after a failed Broadway performance. Adding to her distress, her husband dies suddenly. Desperate and alone, Karen is introduced to Paolo, an incredibly handsome gigolo. Before long, their casual fling becomes an obsession that spirals Karen's life out of control.
Series
Criterion collection volume 255
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (144 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Broadway actress, who is unable to admit that she is aging must confront her personal and professional turmoils in order to make a part her own.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Vic Edwards was the biggest star in Hollywood, a college football legend turned stunt double turned leading man. Now in his eighties, he's convinced by an old friend to accept an invitation to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at a two-bit film festival in Nashville. The trip launches him on both a hilarious fish-out-of-water adventure and an unexpectedly poignant journey into his past.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Loosely based on Kirstie Alley's real life struggles, this unscripted reality/comedy hybrid follows her in an ongoing attempt to find work and love in the cruel environment of Hollywood. Contains seven 30-minute episodes.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Korean
Description
Junhee is a novelist who's grown disenchanted with her writing. On a trip to see an old friend, she runs into a film director who was set to adapt one of her novels before the project fell through. One chance encounter leads to another and soon she finds herself having lunch with Kilsoo, a well-known actress also questioning he role as an artist. It's then that Junhee has an epiphany: she will make a film starring Kilsoo. It won't be like other films....
10) Frances
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (140 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
At 16, Frances Farmer was an award-winning high-school student in Seattle--at 23, she was a rising and provocative star of stage and screen, admired for her beauty and talent--at 27, a chain of relatively insignificant events led to her arrest and eventual involuntary commital to a mental institution.
11) In a world
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An unsuccessful vocal coach competes against her arrogant father in the movie trailer voice-over business.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (210 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Loosely based on Kirstie Alley's real life struggles, this unscripted reality/comedy hybrid follows her in an ongoing attempt to find work and love in the cruel environment of Hollywood. Contains seven 30-minute episodes.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 123 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. Back then she played the role of an alluring young girl but now she is being asked to step into the older role. With her assistant Maria prepares to play opposite a young Hollywood starlet and finds herself on the other side of the mirror, face to face with an unsettling reflection of herself.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 75 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
H.H. Van Buren, an actor who plays a detective on a radio show is trying to live up to his radio role as a crackerjack detective by solving a real ten year old murder case: the death of an old sea captain. To this end, he visits the ship where the dirty deed took place, accompanied by his nervous valet Euclid. At first convinced that the ship is haunted, our hero deduces that the "ghosts" are actually a gang of crooks, in search of the treasure left...
17) Judy
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirty years after rising to global stardom in The Wizard of Oz, showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in London to perform a five-week sold-out run at The Talk of the Town. While preparing for the shows, Garland battles with management, reminisces with friends and adoring fans, and embarks on a whirlwind romance with soon-to-be fifth husband Mickey Deans, all while bravely struggling to overcome intensifying anxiety and physical decline.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In a Parisian theatre after a day of auditioning actresses for the play he is preparing to direct, Thomas is distraught that none has what it takes to play the lead female character. He is getting ready to leave when Vanda appears: an unbridled and brazen whirlwind of energy. Vanda embodies everything Thomas hates. She is crude, idiotic, and will stop at nothing to get the part. But when Thomas finds himself backed into a corner and lets her try her...
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 175 min.) : anamorphic, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hindi
Description
Mili is encouraged by her childhood friend Munna to pursue her dream of winning fame as an actress. When Mili is offered a part in a film by a famous actor, Munna feels he's no longer worthy of her affections and decides to leave town.
20) Inland Empire
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (172 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When an actress falls in love with her co-star, she finds her life is becoming much like the film she is starring in, which is based on a Polish film that was never finished due to horrible tragedies.
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