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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
From 1958 to 1963, American actor Rick Dalton knew the height of fame and fortune as the lead in the television series Bounty Law. Yet, Rick wasn't satisfied with the work and used his popularity to try to become a movie star. By 1969, Rick's career has stalled so much that he takes jobs as a guest star on various shows. He even starts wondering if the only way he can make a comeback is by acting in Italian productions. Cliff Booth, Rick's long-time...
2) The hero
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A former Western icon re-evaluates his life, his image and more importantly his heart after a surprise diagnosis.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Vic Edwards was the biggest star in Hollywood, a college football legend turned stunt double turned leading man. Now in his eighties, he's convinced by an old friend to accept an invitation to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at a two-bit film festival in Nashville. The trip launches him on both a hilarious fish-out-of-water adventure and an unexpectedly poignant journey into his past.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Rosalee Futch is a grocery clerk living in rural West Virginia. She dreams of meeting her big-screen idol, Tad Hamilton. Her chance is the Win a Date with Tad Hamilton contest that was cooked up by Tad's agent and manager to clean up Tad's bad-boy image. When Tad meets Rosalee and gets a taste of what he's been missing in the real world, he decides he wants more and moves to West Virginia, turning Rosalee's dream come true into a nightmare for Richard...
5) Finding you
Publisher
Roadside Attractions LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Talented aspiring violinist Finley meets Beckett, a famous young movie star, on the way to her college semester abroad program in a small village in Ireland. An unexpected romance develops as the heartthrob Beckett leads the uptight Finley on an adventurous revival, and she inspires him to take charge of his future until the pressures of his stardom get in the way.
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and '40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and Bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a radio system to throw Nazi torpedoes off course during WWII.
7) Chaplin
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Chaplin's entire life is covered in the biographical film. From his upbringings in the slums of England to his Honorary Oscar in 1972.
Publisher
DreamWorks/Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Watch John 'Four Leaf' Tayback as he fights a gruesome battle during the Vietnam War. But, this is actually a scene from 'Tropic Thunder, ' a big-budget adaptation of Tayback's wartime memoir. Starring as the central platoon are Speedman, Lazarus, Chino and Portnoy, as well as young character actor Kevin Sandusky. To play the character of African American Sgt. Osiris, Lazarus dyes his skin dark and refuses to break from character. When a scene goes...
9) The Hero
Publisher
www.micromarketing.org
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"An ailing movie star comes to terms with his past and mortality."--Provided by imdb.com.
An ailing movie star comes to terms with his past and mortality.
10) Gemini
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A heinous crime tests the complex relationship between a tenacious personal assistant and her Hollywood starlet boss. As the assistant unravels the mystery, she must confront her own understanding of friendship, truth, and celebrity.
12) A star is born
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
�2004
Language
English
Description
Norman Main, a drunk and failing Hollywood star, unexpectedly meets Ester Boldgett, a farm girl looking to become a showgirl. They fall in love and marry. Her career skyrockets, while his continues to fade with tragic results.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A proud movie theater honors action star turned recluse "Claude Luc Hallyday" with a retrospective of his illustrious career but when real estate developers show up to ruin the party, the two new friends must fight off corporate greed in the name of art.
14) A star is born
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
�1999
Language
English
Description
Drunken waning movie star Norman Maine meets showgirl Esther Blodgett when he literally stumbles into her act one night. A friendship develops which blossoms into romance but tensions increase as Esther's career takes off while Norman's plummets.
15) Judy
Publisher
[Lionsgate]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It's the winter of 1968 and showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in London to perform a five-week sold-out run at The Talk of the Town. It has been 30 years since she shot to stardom in The Wizard of Oz, but though her voice has weakened, its dramatic intensity has grown. As she prepares for the show, fights with management, and reminisces with friends and fans, her wit and warmth shine through. She also embarks on a whirlwind romance with Mickey Deans,...
16) Hollywood North
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Bobby is a novice movie producer who buys the film rights to "Lantern moon", a classic Canadian novel. With his script and vision, Bobby is seeing gold. Of course, thats before Hollywood gets its hands on it. After an aging actor's plunge into paranoid insanity, casting an oversexed actress notorious for her on-set affairs, the collapse of Bobby's vision, and an on-hand filmmaker catching the entire debacle on film, "Lantern moon" and Bobby's dream...
Publisher
[Transmultimedia Entertainment]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Ernest Hemingway's extraordinary life and career has been exhaustively, but less thoroughly examined is his fascinating friendship with film icon Gary Cooper. The liberal, best-known writer of the 20th century and the tight-lipped, all-American "common man" were complete opposites and yet the best of friends for over 20 years.
18) Paradise Texas
Publisher
Distributed by] Monarch Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A boy from a small town meets a Hollywood actor when they're cast in the same movie, and teach each other life lessons, when one tries to shake his father's plans for him, as the other tries to salvage the family his career has torn apart.
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
James Dean is remembered as the embodiment of the rebellious American youth. Rising to megastardom overnight, he became an idol of teens in the 1950s. Casper Van Dien stars as James Dean in the retelling of this enigmatic bad boy that infatuated America and captured their hearts.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
Cecilia is a poor waitress in a dumpy New Jersey diner who goes to movies to escape the realities of the Depression Era life. Her favorite is "The purple rose of Cairo." When the leading man Tom Baxter decides to be with Cecilia, confusion abounds.