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Stardust by the Bushel by Brent Lewis

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Stardust by the Bushel by Brent Lewis

From a thrilling train crash staged in Queenstown for The Whip, a 1917 melodrama, to modern romantic comedies such as Runaway Bride and Wedding Crashers, the beautiful Eastern Shore has long sung its siren call to Hollywood filmmakers.


Big stars were born here, have lived here, and are buried here. Natives and come-heres alike have had films made about them. Robert Mitchum. Tallulah Bankhead. The Lindas, Hamilton and Harrison. Annie Oakley. Misty of Chincoteague. Lucille Fletcher and Douglass Wallop. Edna Ferber, Showboat, and the James Adams Floating Theatre. The First Kiss. Violets Are Blue. Failure to Launch.


Novelists and screenwriters tend to love this place, but at least one scribe who spent formative years here and didn't like it a bit-James M. Cain-would go on to author some of the most scorching crime stories ever to shatter Hollywood censorship standards.


You'll read about all this and more in Stardust by the Bushel. Eastern Shore historian and lifelong resident Brent Lewis offers a wide-ranging compass-from Wilmington to Cape Charles, Oxford to Ocean City-finding literally scores of connections to Tinseltown.


No Eastern Shore bookshelf will be complete without this fresh look at an underappreciated dimension of Eastern Shore history-its distinctive role as a hatchery, sanctuary, and stage setting for universally known moments in American pop culture.

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Lewis, Brent: - Brent Lewis is a native Eastern Shoreman. Both sides of his family have lived on the shore for generations. Brent has been a residential real estate appraiser for over twenty years, but has worked in various local industries. He's married to another Eastern Shore native, Peggy, and has one daughter, Nicole. Brent is a member of the Kent Island Heritage Society, where he conducts their Oral Histories project and contributes to the newsletter. Brent has published in various periodicals. This is his first book.
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ISBN 13 9781735995731
ISBN 10 1735995738
Title Stardust by the Bushel
Author Brent Lewis
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Secant Publishing LLC
Year published 2022-12-01
Number of pages 428
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.