{"product_id":"9781497667211","title":"The Biograph Girl: A Novel of Hollywood Then and Now","description":"\u003cb\u003eAward-winning author William J. Mann blends fact and fiction in this unconventional novel about the nature of celebrity \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Biograph Girl is Florence Lawrence, who gets her first big break in vaudeville as a tiny tot who can whistle like a man. By 1910 she’s a legendary movie star, pursued by thousands of rabid fans. Just a few short decades later, she’s all but forgotten, reduced to walk-ons at MGM. In 1938 she kills herself by ingesting a lethal dose of ant paste.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFast-forward fifty-nine years. A 107-year-old woman named Flo Bridgewood is discovered in a Catholic nursing home in Buffalo. Could the feisty chain smoker with the red satin bow in her hair be America’s former sweetheart? Florence Lawrence is dead . . . isn’t she? And if not, then whose body is in her grave? That’s what journalist Richard Sheehan wants to find out as he and his identical twin brother, Ben, a documentary filmmaker, decide to cash in on a decades-old mystery. Sharing the stage is Flo herself, whose story is the stuff of Hollywood fantasy.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA provocative melding of fact and fiction, \u003ci\u003eThe Biograph Girl\u003c\/i\u003e is about what it means to be a celebrity—then and now.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159024713968,"sku":"9781497667211","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781497667211_p0.jpg?v=1769896398","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781497667211","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}