Résultats pour "Hollywood" dans Fiction historique

Avoir de grands rêves a un prix... Pourquoi dans la nuit du 16 septembre 1932, Peg Entwistle, jeune actrice talentueuse au destin prometteur, aimée de tous et filant le parfait amour avec la nouvelle coqueluche des studios, se jette-t-elle du haut de la lettre « H » du mythique panneau «...

Narrated by Jennifer Jason Leigh Quentin Tarantino’s long-awaited first work of fiction — at once hilarious, delicious, and brutal — is the always surprising, sometimes shocking new novel based on his Academy Award- winning film. RICK DALTON – Once he had his own TV series, but now...

Bukowski's alter ego, Henry Chinaski, returns, revelling in his eternal penchant for booze, women, and horse-racing as he makes the precarious journey from poet to screenwriter. Based on Bukowski's experiences when working on the film Barfly, the absurdity and egotism of the film industry are laid bare in this deadpan, touching, and funny glimpse into the endless negotiations and back-stabbings of la-la land. Hollywood is an irreverent jaunt that serves up the beating heart of Hollywood with razor-sharp humour.

It is 1917, and President Woodrow Wilson is about to lead the country into the Great War in Europe. In California, a new industry is born that will irreversibly transform America. Caroline Sanford, the alluring heroine of Empire, discovers the power of moving pictures to manipulate reality as she vaults to screen stardom under the name of Emma Traxler. Just as Caroline must balance her two lives - West Coast movie star and East Coast newspaper publisher and senator’s mistress - so too must America balance its two power centers: Hollywood and Washington. Here is history as only Gore Vidal can re-create it: brimming with intrigue and scandal, peopled by the greats of the silver screen and American politics.

Hollywood, 1939: When Tinseltown begins to woo wunderkind Orson Welles, he stashes himself at the Chateau Marmont until he's ready to make his splashy entrance. But gossip columnist Kathryn Massey knows he's there. Kathryn has been on the outs with Hollywood since her ill-fated move to Life magazine, but now that she's back at the Hollywood Reporter, she's desperate to find the Next Big Thing.

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by The Nerd Daily, Queerty, She Reads, and more! A cinematic, razor-sharp novel following a backlot fixer’s daring investigation into the suspicious death of a closeted Black actor within the glamorous world of Hollywood "[Narrator Jelani] Alladin vividly...

The dirty business of keeping the stars shiny and clean. During Hollywood’s Golden Age, a destitute young man, Bartie Maddox, journeys to Los Angeles and, through his wits, hard work, and talent, becomes the PR fixer to the most important film studio and its studio chief, Solomon Myers...

'An epic tale' SIMON SCARROW 'Exciting, immersive, well researched and great fun.' GILES KRISTIAN 'Harrowing and totally gripping' LEONORA NATTRASS 'Historical fiction has never been more visceral' JAMES ROLLINS NAPOLEON: EMPEROR OF FRANCE, MASTER OF EUROPE. 1812. On the eve of the invasion of...

Hollywood Star Turns Spy In 1943, movie producer Henrik Zoltan approaches Amelie Blake under the guise of offering the Hollywood star a leading part in his upcoming film, but he has a more meaningful role in mind. Amelie’s homeland of Sweden declared neutrality in the war, but Stockholm has...

Los Angeles, California - 1932. A blonde studio assistant and a daring equestrian feat by chance...leading to a distinguished and colorful career as one of the first stuntwomen in Hollywood's Classic Era of motion pictures. A legend was born, one that would sadly die before her time but would be immortalized (in a manner of speaking) by a legacy of women to follow in her footsteps, the testimonies of celebrities who knew and worked with her, and even a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Here are the excruciatingly funny adventures of Suzanne Vale—a young film star and drug addict—who survives a rehab clinic only to rejoin the equally harrowing world of Hollywood. Out there on the edge, despair flips into hilarity, and we're left laughing as Suzanne struggles to come to...

When the Red Scare ends, paranoia lingers. Can Tinseltown recover to take on television? After an exile from MGM, ousted screenwriter Marcus Adler is looking for his way back into the biz. When he hatches a plan to start over with a disgraced movie star, a Hollywood censor reminds Marcus that the misdeeds of the past aren't soon forgotten.

In 1939, Amelia Hartley is slinging hash at Schwab’s Pharmacy, but a girl can’t live on soda fountain shtick forever. When she learns of the revival of a long-forgotten film gem, Amelia seizes her chance for stardom—if she can convince the right people to believe in her. At Selznick International, opportunity comes knocking when she’s offered the role of stand-in. But as Amelia works to make her mark, she uncovers an unexpected web of corruption stretching from Sunset Boulevard to Palm Springs. At its center stands a woman Hollywood cast aside—one whose secrets could upend Tinseltown.

Hollywood, 1924. Grace Michelle should be basking in her new role as lead costume designer on a major motion picture. Instead, she's barely holding it together—grieving her sister, juggling a demanding set, and trying to care for a troubled foster teen. But when the film's director is murdered and the girl is found unconscious at the scene, Grace's life takes a darker turn.

Maggie Hope is off to California to solve a crime that hits too close to home—and to confront the very evil she thought she had left behind in Europe—as the acclaimed World War II mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Susan Elia MacNeal continues. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST...

After waving her sweetheart Luke off to war, Nell Davenport encounters an unexpected entanglement that will change Hollywood forever. With combat raging across Europe and the Pacific, jobs of all kinds are now open to women on the home front. Nell sets her sights on the publicity department of the Warner Bros. movie studios as she develops a surprising bond with Humphrey Bogart. But when a captivating 19-year-old is cast opposite Bogie in To Have and Have Not, the newcomer’s arrival will alter the course of Nell’s blossoming friendship.

Ludlow Sinclair is an impeccably tailored gentleman who glides among Hollywood’s elite, earning the trust of lonely, wealthy wives of studio moguls. Adept at keeping their indiscretions private, Luddie maintains a lucrative lifestyle —but harbors a deeper secret: his long-buried past. As David O. Selznick pushes himself to exhaustion bringing his four-million-dollar epic, Gone with the Wind, to the screen, unbearable stress and sleepless nights drive him to Luddie for dangerous favors.

PICKED FOR ROXANE GAY'S AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB 'If you're already missing HACKS, this will fill the void' Debutiful, 'The Most Anticipated Debut Books of 2026' 'Funny, poignant, and positively delightful' GRAHAM MOORE, author of The Holdout 'A searing, hilarious farce' NIKESH SHUKLA, author of The...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmaker and A Touch of Stardust, comes a Hollywood coming-of-age novel, in which Ingrid Bergman's affair with Roberto Rossellini forces her biggest fan to reconsider everything she was raised to believe In 1950, Ingrid Bergman—already a...

Newlyweds Cora and Archie set out on their honeymoon to Los Angeles in 1926. A Londoner, Archie has a love for American films, especially if they include archeology, his specialty. Cora’s passions are adventure and jumping in with both feet. During a tour of a movie studio, Cora gets the harebrained idea for Archie to use his amateur acting skills to pretend he is a famous English actor in order to finagle an in-depth tour of the studio. While touring an active movie set for a western film, they witness an actor walk off the set, leaving the director in a bind.