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A presence lurks in New York City’s New Amsterdam Theatre when the lights go down and the audience goes home. They say she’s the ghost of OLIVE THOMAS, one of the loveliest girls who ever lit up the Ziegfeld Follies and the silent screen. From her longtime home at the theater, Ollie’s ghost tells her story from her early life in Pittsburgh to her tragic death at twenty-five.

After winning a contest for “The Most Beautiful Girl in New York,” shopgirl Ollie modeled for the most famous artists in New York, and then went on to become the toast of Broadway. When Hollywood beckoned, Ollie signed first with Triangle Pictures, and then with MYRON SELZNICK’s new production company, becoming most well known for her work as a “baby vamp,” the precursor to the flappers of the 1920s.

After a stormy courtship, she married playboy JACK PICKFORD, MARY PICKFORD’s wastrel brother. Together they developed a reputation for drinking, club-going, wrecking cars, and fighting, along with giving each other expensive make-up gifts. Ollie's mysterious death in Paris’ Ritz Hotel in 1920 was one of Hollywood’s first scandals, ensuring that her legend lived on.

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"A film buff"s dream, wrapped in the decadence and glamour of a bygone era." - Kirkus Reviews

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A native of Austin, Texas, Laini Giles grew up the daughter of bookworms, and became a Nancy Drew devotee early on. When she realized there might be no escape from hairy tarantulas and bad guys with guns, she put her detective dreams on hold and wrote about them instead, finishing her first mystery novel with custom illustrations when she was eight. It was this love of mystery combined with a love of old MGM musicals and The Marx Brothers that led her to check Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon out of the library during her formative years. Ideas began to simmer. A graduate of the University of North Texas, she put the writing on hold for a while when real life got in the way (i.e.-she met and married her Canadian husband and headed north for maple-flavored goodies and real beer). She highly recommends moving to another country and not being able to work for a year for finishing any novels you may have laying around. Laini and her husband live in Edmonton, Alberta with their two cats. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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ASIN : B012BTP2VY
Publisher : Sepia Stories Publishing; 1st edition (1 August 2015)
Language : English
File size : 1444 KB
Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 422 pages

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WENDY NADIN

Great read

Reviewed in Australia on 6 July 2019

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THIS BOOK WAS A GREAT READ I HAD A HARD TIME PUTTING IT DOWN
I LOVED THE WAY TO WRITER WROTE I FELT LIKE IT WAS OLIVE THOMAS TALKING TO ME AND IT FELT LIKE I WAS
THERE WITH HER WALKING WITH HER THROUGH HER LIFE.

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Andrew

I really enjoyed this novel

Reviewed in Australia on 4 December 2016

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I really enjoyed this novel. Didn't realise until the end that it was based on a real person, which made it all that much better. A recommended read.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 15 August 2016

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A nice surprise was to find out this was based on true event

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Mr. Kenneth D. Jones

Wow.......

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 July 2016

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Wow, I could not put this book down. A fictitious story , using a real silent film star, Olive Thomas, and a cast of mainly real people, also using known situations and facts.
A brilliant story, from an unusual angle, ( the story is narrated by Olive's ghost). Funny, sad and revealing by turns, I cannot recommend this book highly enough, be warned though , have plenty of tea and snacks handy, and, if you start this book at night, be prepared to lose a lot of sleep, you will really want to see what happens at the end of the story. I cannot wait for other book from this author.

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Mal Ellis

Good Book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 August 2020

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I was a little reluctant to buy this book at first due to the cost only being a paper back edition. However, I am really glad I did. The narrative is really good and it is a really good read, especially for anyone interested in Hollywood and its early years.

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Sad but wonderful book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 December 2019

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I liked the fact it was narrated by "Olive " Herself .Full of Memories of silent movies, and the people who made Them, Glad that olive is still remembered even a hundred years after Her death.

H. Underhay

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 April 2016

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Pretty good idea with some holes - would rather read a more factual version but good enough

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christine gore

Not what I expected

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 August 2019

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Much better read than I'd hoped for. Really brought the era to life with extravagant characters and story line. A little too long but overall great.

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