01951cam a2200289 4500 425429922 TxAuBib 20130416120000.0 120326s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 2012011330 9781594488450 1594488452 (OCoLC)779874677 TxAuBib Straub, Emma. Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures / Emma Straub. 1st Edition. New York : Riverhead Books, 2012. 306 p ; 24 cm. The enchanting story of a midwestern girl who escapes a family tragedy and is remade as a movie star during Hollywood’s golden age. In 1920, Elsa Emerson, the youngest and blondest of three sisters, is born in idyllic Door County, Wisconsin. Her family owns the Cherry County Playhouse, and more than anything, Elsa relishes appearing onstage, where she soaks up the approval of her father and the embrace of the audience. But when tragedy strikes her family, her acting becomes more than a child¹s game of pretend. While still in her teens, Elsa marries and flees to Los Angeles. There she is discovered by Irving Green, one of the most powerful executives in Hollywood, who refashions her as a serious, exotic brunette and renames her Laura Lamont. Irving becomes Laura’s great love; she becomes an Academy Award­-winning actress—and a genuine movie star. Laura experiences all the glamour and extravagance of the heady pinnacle of stardom in the studio-system era, but ultimately her story is a timeless one of a woman trying to balance career, family, and personal happiness, all while remaining true to herself. 20130416. Motion picture actors and actresses Fiction. Josephine (Fictitious character.) Fame Fiction. Historical Fiction. TXGID