Orem Library

In 1976, Carrie Fisher was a teenager filming a movie, with an all-consuming crush on her costar. And it just happened to become one of the most famous films of all time -- the first Star wars movie. When she recently discovered the journals she had kept, she found them full of plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naivete, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. In revisiting her diaries, Fisher ponders the joys and insanity...

Never before published in a single volume, here are both the fly-on-the-wall diary Clark kept during the often tumultuous filming of the legendary film, The Prince and the Showgirl, and his heartfelt intimate remembrance of the brief episode that was to change his life: an innocent week in the English countryside in which Clark becomes Marilyn Monroe's confidant and ally-- and maybe falls a bit in love.

A candid memoir filled with vivid anecdotes: Growing up in the South, navigating stand-up comedy's challenging early days, brushes with celebrities like Chris Rock and Whoopi Goldberg, and insights on Ghostbusters, Supermarket Sweep, The Daily Show. Revealing struggles as a tall Black woman in comedy.

"Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., leaped, vaulted and swashbuckled his way through more than forty movies between 1915 and 1934, establishing his own distinctive, comic-acrobatic screen style, and creating a persona that soon became the symbol of swashbuckling romance for a whole generation of movie-goers; but he also influenced the shaping of the motion picture industry"--adapted from book jacket flap.

The story of Anna May Wong, who fought virulent anti-Chinese xenophobia, unabashed sexism, cinematic exploitation and ageism that defined American culture in the 20th century to became Hollywood's first Chinese American film star.

Outlines Flynn's life from his beginnings in Australia to his fame in Hollywood and his life behind the silver screen.