Orem Library

A silent Film star. A woman who played children, wide-eyed and gamine. Skipping around in frills and cute curls. Thats how most people remember Mary Pickford. In reality, as Eileen Whitfield makes clear, Mary Pickford is a towering figure in movie history.

Lacey Barnes always dreamed of being an actress, and get an opportunity to star in a movie during her senior year. But life in the spotlight isn't as picture perfect as Lacey imagined. She has trouble bonding with her costars, her father hires Donavan Lake to tutor her, somewhere along the way she loses her acting mojo. And it looks like someone on set is deliberately trying to sabotage her. It seems the only person she can count on is Donavan--even...

Provides excerpts and facsimiles of the most personal papers of Marilyn Monroe, revealing a curious, searching, and hopeful woman who wanted to perfect her craft and was unsparing in her analysis of her own life.

Charles Castle is a Hollywood actor whose career needs to rebound after several flops. When he sees his marriage and career crumbling before him, it's all he can do to keep his spirits up and his wits about him. At this point in his life, the last thing he needs is more headaches. And then along comes a blackmailer, who threatens to push Castle's sanity over the edge.

Looks at the intimate details of the movie icon's films, three marriages, many affairs, and struggles with addictions.

Rosalee Futch is a grocery clerk living in rural West Virginia. She dreams of meeting her big-screen idol, Tad Hamilton. Her chance is the Win a Date with Tad Hamilton contest that was cooked up by Tad's agent and manager to clean up Tad's bad-boy image. When Tad meets Rosalee and gets a taste of what he's been missing in the real world, he decides he wants more and moves to West Virginia, turning Rosalee's dream come true into a nightmare for Richard...

To Wendy Wood, the job sounded ideal. She would be living in the mansion of a legendary film star and she would be able to focus on teaching only one student. But a chilly reception by the household staff and her initial encounter with Paul, her young charge, leave her wondering if she made the right decision--and now it seems someone wants her out of the way. Wendy is sure she didn't imagine the strong hands that pushed her in the dark--the first...

Broadway star Ethel Merman's voice was a mesmerizing force and her vitality was legendary, yet the popular perception of La Merm as the irrepressible wonder falls far short of all that she was and all that she meant to Americans over so many decades. This marvelously detailed biography is the first to tell the full story of how the stenographer from Queens, New York, became the queen of the Broadway musical in its golden age. Mining official and unofficial...

Conjoined twins, Bob and Walt, are happy living their lives together and manage just fine, playing hockey, working at the diner, and cruising for babes, until one decides he wants to be an actor and the other has stage fright and panic attacks.