motion picture industry

Famed film director James Jackson has fallen victim to a blackmailer who is demanding ten million dollars. Amateur sleuth Nancy Drew is on the scene to help her father's friend, and becomes the blackmailer's new target in the process.

Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark, pursues a mark who is behind in payments to Las Vegas and then to Hollywood where Harry Zimm has gambled away the $200,000 earmarked for his next production.

Screenwriter William Goldman explains what works best on the silver screen and what does not, and provides anecdotes from the sets of famous late-twentieth-century American films.

The team must stop movie actress Anya Archer's attackers before they blow up everyone at the Big Apple Awards at Radio City Music Hall, New York.

Provides accounts of memorable people and events in the history of Hollywood, focusing on the movie business.

In 1917 an actress's rise to stardom is paralleled by the birth of Hollywood.

A discussion of studios and star systems, film genres, and boxoffice trends is followed by an examination of the methods of 18 well-known directors, including Frank Capra, John Huston, Elia Kazan, and Robert Altman.

In 1917, Kate Witherspoon, who has lived a bohemian life with her artist parents, goes to Los Angeles where she meets crippled midwestern farm boy, Julian Birch, another runaway, and together they realize they have the ability to triumph over death and time.

High schooler Jessie Phillips finds herself caught up in Hollywood gossip and scandal when a movie is filmed at her school and she finds herself starring opposite film star Shane Rockett, despite her boyfriend's objections.

Text and cartoon illustrations chronicle the history of narrative film and discuss the development of the film industry in the twentieth century; includes profiles of the most influential actors, directors, and producers in the industry.