Format:
Book
Author:
Benjamin, Melanie, 1962- author.
Title:
The girls in the picture / Melanie Benjamin.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Delacorte Press, [2018]
Description:
xix, 422 pages ; 22 cm
Summary:
It is 1914, and twenty-five-year-old Frances Marion has left her (second) husband and her Northern California home for the lure of Los Angeles, where she is determined to live independently as an artist. But the word on everyone's lips these days is "flickers"--the silent moving pictures enthralling theatergoers. Turn any corner in this burgeoning town and you'll find made-up actors running around, as a movie camera captures it all. In this fledgling industry, Frances finds her true calling: writing stories for this wondrous new medium. She also makes the acquaintance of actress Mary Pickford, whose signature golden curls and lively spirit have given her the title of America's Sweetheart. The two ambitious young women hit it off instantly, their kinship fomented by their mutual fever to create, to move audiences to a frenzy, to start a revolution. But their ambitions are challenged both by the men around them and the limitations imposed on their gender--and their astronomical success could come at a price.
Subjects:
Pickford, Mary, 1892-1979 -- Fiction.
Marion, Frances, 1888-1973 -- Fiction.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Fiction.
Women screenwriters -- United States -- Fiction.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
Other Title:
Subtitle from dust jacket : a novel
LCCN:
2016047423
ISBN:
9781101886809
1101886803
9781101886809
Other Number:
966436381
System Availability:
1
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
1
Control Number:
106291
Call Number:
F BEN
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
1
# System items in:
1