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10.4 - Ready For A Closeup

Read a book with a central character or subject who is a professional actor or actress. Actor biographies and memoirs work.
These lists may help Romance with Actors, Actresses, Acting
Hollywood Historical Fiction

Golden Hollywood Memoir
Required: If it is not evident include a reference to establish how the book fits the task.

Opera singers are considered actors for this task.

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Would a music hall performer work? I haven't read it yet so not sure how much is acting and how much is just singing. But it involves drag, so presumably that's acting?
Tipping the Velvet

Meg wrote: "Would a music hall performer work? I haven't read it yet so not sure how much is acting and how much is just singing. But it involves drag, so presumably that's acting?
Tipping the Velvet"

From reviews it looks like there is a theatre component, so it looks like it might work.

can i ask if this will work as Marilyn monroe is a character "visiting" failed actress libby

A Night in with Marilyn Monroe

Marie (UK) wrote: "can i ask if this will work as Marilyn monroe is a character "visiting" failed actress libby

A Night in with Marilyn Monroe"

yes

Would an aspiring actress work? In American Vampire, Vol. 1 there are two stories that intertwine. The main character in one of those stories is an aspiring actress who does work as an extra on a movie.

TraceyL wrote: "Would an aspiring actress work? In American Vampire, Vol. 1 there are two stories that intertwine. The main character in one of those stories is an aspiring actress who does work as ..."

A character in one story would not work.

Want to check to make sure this one works, the MC becomes Alexandra Romanov who is an actress. Thank you

Starlet

Jecca wrote: "Want to check to make sure this one works, the MC becomes Alexandra Romanov who is an actress. Thank you

Starlet"

It does

I'm wondering about the definition of "professional". In looking through some boxes of old books in my closet I found We Open on Venus and A Slight Detour which are science fiction about a troupe of actors performing on different planets. Would these qualify?

(We're half-way through the third month of the summer challenge and I have library books for some of the other tasks that I need to read first so I don't know whether I would get to this one, but wanted to check now instead of waiting to ask in the last few days.)

Julia wrote: "I'm wondering about the definition of "professional". In looking through some boxes of old books in my closet I found We Open on Venus and A Slight Detour which are scie..."

They would.