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Young Sebastian Barth investigates the tangle of warnings and ominous accidents surrounding a famous actress visiting his home town.

While spending the summer in California with her movie-star grandmother, fifteen-year-old Kat reluctantly agrees to impersonate the aging actress in the hopes of helping her land an important movie role.

A profile of teen star Miley Cyrus, discussing how she got involved in acting, her starring role in "Hannah Montana," and the singing career sparked by the television show.

Young singer/actress Miley Cyrus, star of television's "Hannah Montana," discusses her life and family in Tennessee, the joys and challenges of superstardom, and her dreams for the future.

The story of a young woman from Wisconsin who goes to Chicago, becomes an actress, marries and goes to New York, and when her husband loses his job, goes onstage again; and includes historical context, explanatory notes, excerpts of criticism, discussion questions, and other study tools.

Presents the life of legendary film siren Hedy Lamarr, including her involvement in the breakthrough invention spread-spectrum radio alongside composer George Antheil.

Cherry Kerrigan loves her simple life, her family's tiny trailer, even working at Burrito Barn.

A biography of the screen icon, from her early days as an orphan to her rise to stardom; includes discussion of her film career, marriages, and tragic death.

Vivien decides to spend a summer with her mother and gets a part in a soap-opera.

Teen movie star Kaitlin Burke finds life on the set of her television show "Family Affair" in chaos thanks to the new star, Alexis, who tries to make Kaitlin's life miserable and almost ruins her career.

The winter of 1602 brings many changes for Widge, a young apprentice at London's Globe Theatre, as he becomes infatuated with Shakespeare's daughter Judith, attempts to write a play, learns more about his past, endangers himself to help a friend, acquires a new identity, and finds a new purpose in life.

Presents the text of the 1988 Tony Award-winning play in which diplomat Rene Gallimard, a captive of the French government, relives his twenty-year affair with a beautiful, elusive Chinese actress who turned out to be not only a spy, but a man in disguise, and includes comments by the author.

After the whole village of Bishop's Lacey descends on Flavia de Luce's family's estate during a raging blizzard to watch the filming of a movie, a person ends up dead, strangled by a length of film, and the eleven-year-old budding chemist must find the killer.

Examines in text and photographs the life and career of the most celebrated motion picture actress in the history of show business.