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ALLURE:
HOLLYWOOD HEYDAY: THE GLAMOUR AND THE GRITTINESS
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by Kate Alcott
Julie Crawford leaves Fort Wayne, Indiana, for Hollywood, with dreams of becoming a screenwriter. But the only job Julie's able to find is one in the studio publicity office of the notoriously demanding producer David O. Selznick, who is busy burning through directors, writers, and money as he films Gone with the Wind.
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by Marie Benedict
Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. She devised a plan to flee in disguise from their castle, and the whirlwind escape landed her in Hollywood. She became Hedy Lamarr, screen star. But had a shocking secret: she was a scientist. And she knew a few secrets about the enemy. She had an idea that might help the country fight the Nazis... |
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by Melanie Benjamin
In the earliest days of Hollywood's motion picture industry, two remarkable women become close friends: the image-conscious actress Mary Pickford, who depends on pleasing the public to escape the poverty of her childhood, and the savvy screenwriter Frances Marion, whose scripts provide the foundation of Mary's meteoric rise to fame as "America's sweetheart."
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by Donis Casey
Blanche Tucker longs to escape her drop-dead dull life in tiny Boynton, Oklahoma. Then dashing Graham Peyton roars into town. Posing as a film producer, Graham convinces the ambitious but naive teenager to run away with him to a glamorous new life. Instead, Graham uses her as cruelly as a silent picture villain.
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by Jonathan Crown
An extraordinary little fox terrier helps his Jewish family escape from Germany to California before becoming a Hollywood star and inadvertently contributing to the downfall of Hitler.
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by Peter Ho Davies
Four intersecting lives, including Anna May Wong, the first Chinese film star in Hollywood. She is forbidden to kiss a white man on screen; she must find her place between two worlds and two cultures.
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by Anne Enright
Katherine O'Dell is an Irish theater legend. As her daughter, Norah, retraces her mother's celebrated career and bohemian life, she delves into long-kept secrets, both her mother's and her own.
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by Juliette Fay
Friends Millie, Henry, and Irene travel to Hollywood in the 1920s with hopes of making it big, but their ambitions are challenged by both the men above them and the prejudices surrounding them.
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by Anne Girard
It's the Roaring Twenties and seventeen-year-old Harlean Carpenter McGrew has run off to Beverly Hills. She's chasing a dream -- to escape her small, Midwestern life and see her name (soon to be Jean Harlow) in lights.
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by Karen Harper
Despite quarrels and misunderstandings, distance and destiny, there is no bond stronger than that of the two sisters -- confidants, friends, rivals and the two "It Girls" of their day.
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by Laura Kalpakian
Backed by little more than stubborn grit, Roxanne sets up shop as a low-budget film agent for budding screenwriters. Soon Roxanne finds herself at the helm of a lucrative business, and in the arms of an African American journalist. But can Roxanne's newfound success survive in a Hollywood ruthless when it senses a scandal?
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by Amanda Koe Lee
At the Berlin Press Ball 1928, three young women meet: Anna May Wong, an up-and-coming Chinese-American actress in Hollywood; Marlene Dietrich, a loudmouthed German trying to break into the business; and Leni Riefenstahl, a striving director just embarking on a career making Nazi propaganda films.
Inspired by Alfred Eisenstaedt's iconic 1928 photograph. |
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by Ji-Min Lee
A dazzling work of historical fiction, based on true events, about two women who seem the most unlikely to ever meet: Alice, a Korean war survivor and translator for the American forces in Seoul and Marilyn Monroe, who is visiting Korea on a four-day USO tour.
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by Elizabeth Letts
Reimagines the story behind the creation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the perspective of L. Frank Baum's intrepid wife, whose hardscrabble life on the Dakota prairie inspires her husband's masterpiece and her advocacy of an exploited Judy Garland.
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by Jeanne Mackin
Paris, 1938. Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli are fighting for recognition as the most successful and influential fashion designer in France, and their rivalry is already legendary. When Lily travels to Paris to visit her brother, he insists on buying her a couture dress for her birthday -- a Chanel. But Lily is interested in Schiaparelli, not Chanel.
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by Shanna Mahin
Jess Dunne is third-generation Hollywood, but her star on the boulevard has yet to materialize. Sure, she's got a Santa Monica address and a working actress roommate, but with her nowhere barista job in a town that acknowledges zeroes only as a dress size, she's a dead girl walking.
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by Dominic Smith
A French pioneer of silent films who has lived for half a century in a Hollywood hotel is forced to reckon with the reappearance of the lost movie masterpiece that left him bankrupt.
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by Darin Strauss
A fresh view of a celebrity America loved more than any other. Lucille Ball--the most powerful woman in the history of Hollywood--starred in America's first big-time interracial marriage. She owned more movie sets than did any movie studio. And she more or less single-handedly created the modern TV business. And yet Lucille's off-camera life was in disarray.
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by Sam Toperoff
This lyrical historical novel imagines the inner life of the tempestuous relationship between American authors Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman, against the backdrop of 20th-century show business history
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by Adriana Trigiani
Costars Loretta Young and Clark Gable sustained a flirtation on the set of the 1935 film Call of the Wild. Young was almost two decades Gable's junior -- and unattached, while Gable was married. Their onscreen chemistry didn't translate to offscreen happiness, and an unplanned pregnancy threatened the stars' careers.
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