Description
Title: Biograph Girl
Author: William J Mann
ISBN: 9781575666662
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2001
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 457
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : William J. Mann, the highly-acclaimed author of Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines, now takes us on a wild roller-coaster ride through the 20th century, led by a sassy, chain-smoking 107-year-old actress named Florence Lawrence. Masterfully blending fact with fiction, Mann has reimagined this very real historical figure. From her vaudeville childhood as “Baby Flo, The Child Wonder Whistler” to the snowy Bronx backlot where she shot her first motion picture, the lovely Florence Lawrence commanded — and demanded — attention. By 1910, she was the legendary, enigmatic Biograph Girl — the world’s very first movie star.
Sixty years later, the fiercely competitive Sheehan twins discover a feisty, mysterious old lady named Flo Bridgewood…a woman who turns out to be none other than the renowned Biograph Girl — who supposedly died decades before. When the Sheehan brothers find her, she’s relaunched into a new and unorthodox stardom. But Flo soon discovers that the times — and nature of celebrity — have changed dramatically from the beginning of the century to the end.
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