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The Biograph Girl
The Biograph Girl
Author: William J. Mann
Grab your seat for a wild roller-coaster ride through the 20th century, led by a sassy, chain-smoking 107-year-old actress named Florence Lawrence. 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 - atte...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781575665597
ISBN-10: 157566559X
Publication Date: 6/1/2000
Pages: 457
Rating:
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3.6 stars, based on 6 ratings
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 1
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Helpful Score: 2
A great telling of the story of a woman who has lives in three centuries. She was born in the last 1800's and was "discovered" by a film writer looking to interview some one who had lived that long and seen , lived the changes in America. From her start in vaudville to her retirement in an upstate New York nursing home, it was certainly a great ride. The book does jump from present to past but they tell you the year at the beginning of each chapter. I did not find it a problem but i know some people dislike that.
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An unusual story line, not a cookie-cutter plot. A good read.
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Excellent fun read!
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Hardcover

The birth of the film industry and the advent of the world's first film star, Florence Lawrence, the original "Biograph Girl," form the basis of this fictionalized account of one woman's life in a burgeoning industry that changed the parameters of entertainment. The real silent film actress Lawrence committed suicide in 1938 by drinking ant poison. In Mann's version, Lawrence, who was at the height of her fame in 1910, but by the late '30s had faded into oblivion, and a besotted physician-fan use the suicide of Lawrence's housemate as a ruse to allow Lawrence to disappear gracefully from an industry that no longer wants or cares about her. The fictional Lawrence not only goes on to have her own life, but lives to the ripe old age of 107.
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you gotta read this boook.... i loved it!


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