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Author Benjamin, Melanie, 1962- author.

Title The girls in the picture / Melanie Benjamin.

Publisher New York, New York: Delacorte Press, [2018]

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ITEM LOC CALL # STATUS
 Ashland adult fiction  BENJAMIN    AVAILABLE
 Boulder Junction adult fiction  FIC BEN    AVAILABLE
 Cable adult fiction  FIC BEN    AVAILABLE
 Land O Lakes adult fiction  FIC BEN    AVAILABLE
 Mercer adult fiction  F BEN    AVAILABLE
 Presque Isle adult fiction  F Ben    AVAILABLE
 Spooner adult fiction  F BEN    AVAILABLE
 Webster adult fiction  FIC BEN HC    AVAILABLE
Edition First edition.
Descript xix, 422 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary A fascinating novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends--screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator's Wife 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 formented 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. As Mary, the world's highest paid and most beloved actress, struggles to live her life under the spotlight, she also wonders if it is possible to find love, even with the dashing actor Douglas Fairbanks. Frances, too, longs to share her life with someone. As in any good Hollywood story, dramas will play out, personalities will clash, and even the deepest friendships might be shattered. With cameos from such notables as Charlie Chaplin, Louis B. Mayer, Rudolph Valentino, and Lillian Gish, The Girls in the Picture is, at its heart, a story of friendship and forgiveness. Melanie Benjamin perfectly captures the dawn of a glittering new era--its myths and icons, its possibilities and potential, and its seduction and heartbreak.
Subject Pickford, Mary, 1892-1979 -- Fiction.
Marion, Frances, 1888-1973 -- Fiction.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Fiction.
Women screenwriters -- United States -- Fiction.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
Genre Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
ISBN/ISSN 1101886803 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
9781101886809 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)