The Biograph Girl: A Novel of Hollywood Then and Now

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Synopsis
Award-winning author William J. Mann blends fact and fiction in this unconventional novel about the nature of celebrity The Biograph Girl is Florence Lawrence, who gets her first big break in vaudeville as a tiny tot who can whistle like a man. By 1910 she&’s a legendary movie star, pursued by thousands of rabid fans. Just a few short decades later, she&’s all but forgotten, reduced to walk-ons at MGM. In 1938 she kills herself by ingesting a lethal dose of ant paste. Fast-forward fifty-nine years. A 107-year-old woman named Flo Bridgewood is discovered in a Catholic nursing home in Buffalo. Could the feisty chain smoker with the red satin bow in her hair be America&’s former sweetheart? Florence Lawrence is dead . . . isn&’t she? And if not, then whose body is in her grave? That&’s what journalist Richard Sheehan wants to find out as he and his identical twin brother, Ben, a documentary filmmaker, decide to cash in on a decades-old mystery. Sharing the stage is Flo herself, whose story is the stuff of Hollywood fantasy. A provocative melding of fact and fiction, The Biograph Girl is about what it means to be a celebrity—then and now.
Copyright:
2000

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
457 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781497667211
Publisher:
Open Road Media
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
William J. Mann
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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