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The Biograph Girl

The acclaimed author masterfully blends fact with fiction to re-imagine the world's very first movie star--Florence Lawrence, who by 1910 was known as the legendary and enigmatic Biograph Girl. Despite her rumored suicide, a pair of twins find the sassy actress alive at age 107 and re-launch her stardom.

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  • "The acclaimed author masterfully blends fact with fiction to re-imagine the world's very first movie star--Florence Lawrence, who by 1910 was known as the legendary and enigmatic Biograph Girl. Despite her rumored suicide, a pair of twins find the sassy actress alive at age 107 and re-launch her stardom."
  • "The acclaimed author masterfully blends fact with fiction to re-imagine the world's very first movie star--Florence Lawrence, who by 1910 was known as the legendary and enigmatic Biograph Girl. Despite her rumored suicide, a pair of twins find the sassy actress alive at age 107 and re-launch her stardom."@en
  • ""What if the first star of the silent screen, Florence Lawrence, didn't die in 1939 from ingesting ant poison, but is 106 and living in a nursing home in Buffalo, New York? Gay freelance writer, Richard Sheehan, finds her by chance while interviewing the elderly for a New York Times article. His ambitious, straight twin, Ben, makes a documentary about her in the hopes that it will jump-start his career. He sends her out on the talk-show circuit, but questions are raised about who is buried in Florence's grave. Still cagey, she refuses to talk about certain aspects of her life, happy just to bask in the limelight once again. Old age finally catches up to her, and Florence's decline brings the conflicts between the two Sheehan brothers to a head." -- from Amazon.com."
  • "Blending fact and real-life characters with fiction, this historical novel re-creates the life of Florence Lawrence, an early twentieth-century actress and vaudevillian who by 1910 was the "Biograph Girl," the world's first movie star."@en
  • "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 & rsquo;s a legendary movie star, pursued by thousands of rabid fans. Just a few short decades later, she & rsquo;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 & rsquo;s former sweetheart? Florence Lawrence is dead ... isn & rsquo;t she? And if not, then whose body is in her grave? That & rsquo;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 & mdash;then and now."@en

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  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "History"

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  • "The Biograph Girl"@en
  • "The Biograph Girl"
  • "The biograph girl"
  • "The biograph girl"@en
  • "The biograph girl : [a novel of Hollywood then and now]"@en
  • "The biograph girl : [a novel of Hollywood then and now]"
  • "The biograph girl : [a novel of Hollywood]"
  • "Biograph Girl a Novel of Hollywood Then and Now"@en

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