Book: The Dressmaker Author: Kate Alcott Genre: Fiction/Romance/Historical Summary: Tess, an aspiring seamstress, thinks she's had an incredibly lucky break when she is hired by famous designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon to be her personal maid on the Titanic. Once on board, Tess catches the eye ...
This review is written by someone who seldom watches movies. I never saw Titanic or The Unsinkable Molly Brown, so I’m not comparing it with anything. I’m interested in history, but the rich and famous tend to escape my notice and I had to look up some of the more celebrated survivors. I’d never hea...
This was a story about glamour, gossip, scandal, Old Hollywood, McCarthyism, and a young girl. Jessica Malloy was brought up Hollywood all around her. Her father was a PR executive and Ingrid Bergman was one of his talents. Jessica was in awe of her, she was her idol. Jessica was lucky, she got to m...
A Touch of Stardust is the latest in a long line of books that wouldn't have been published if they didn't center on the lives of famous people. I picked this one up because I'm a sucker for Old Hollywood and had a thing for Gone With the Wind when I was a kid. It moves quickly and before I knew it ...
To this day, Gone with the Wind remains one of my favorite books and the movie one of only three that I have watched more than once. It was extremely thrilling to memo find myself once again lost in the wonderful world of that movie, this time having a back seat to its making and some of its stars. ...
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmaker comes a blockbuster novel that takes you behind the scenes of the filming of Gone with the Wind, while turning the spotlight on the passionate romance between its dashing leading man, Clark Gable, and the blithe, free-spirited actress Caro...
ARE received via NetGalley.If you love stories of old Hollywood, the synopsis of A Touch of Stardust teases behind the scenes drama on the Gone With the Wind set. Through the eyes of aspiring screenwriter / personal assistant Julie Crawford, you do enjoy a front seat to clashes between David Selznic...
Alice Barrow leaves her farm life, and an abusive father, to become a mill girl in Lowell, MA, during the 19th Century. There, she befriends Sarah "Lovey" Cornell and enters into a life that is both more free and more difficult than she imagined. The mill is owned by the Fiske family; wealthy indu...
The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate Alcott is set in the textile factories of Lowell, Massachusetts, considered a hub of the Industrial Revolution in the United States. The book speaks to the factory working conditions and to the role of the Mill girls who worked in those factories. The story center...
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