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Rebecca And The Movies (2009)

by Jacqueline Dembar Greene(Favorite Author)

4.01 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1593695268 (ISBN13: 9781593695262)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

American Girl Publishing Inc

series

American Girls: Rebecca

review 1: Rebecca is turning ten years old, but her birthday falls during Passover, an important Jewish holiday so Rebecca doesn't think she'll be getting a big party, so when her family surprises her, Rebecca is thrilled, but the best gift of all is that her Uncle Max is taking her to the set of the movie he's starring in and Rebecca will get to see how the movie is made! Could this be her big chance to be discovered?
review 2: rebecca is obsessed with the new moving pictures that are showing up at theatres around town, even though her parents & grandparents are a bit wary. rebecca hasn't worked up the courage to tell them that she wants to be an actress when she grows up, & not a teacher, like her father expects. rebecca's uncle max is an actor, & the family is not the... more most supportive of his choice of career. but rebecca thinks it's fascinating. for rebecca's tenth birthday, max brings her a very fancy hat covered in flowers & takes her to spend the day with him at the movie studio he works for. rebecca gets to visit the prop room & meet the prop master. she meets lily amrstrong, a glamorous actress rebecca had admired on the movie poster for "celopatra". lily is the star of the movie they are shooting that day, "the suitor". rebecca watches lily put on her make-up, which sounds really intense & made me think about the racism of the early days of cinema. but that's neither here nor there, i guess. max is another star of "the suitor," playing the gardener that lily's character is in love with, of which her family doesn't approve. rebecca thinks this sounds like real life--her life, in which movies are the thing she's in love with, of which her family doesn't approve.the director decides he needs a child to play lily's younger sister, to warn the titular suitors that they have been spotted & are about to be ratted out. rebecca volunteers & gets outfitted & made up & fed some stage directions on the spot (it's a silent movie, so she doesn't have lines, per se). she is surprised at how difficult acting is, but she keeps it together & gets praise from the director. everyone sticks around to watch the dailies & see how it all came out. rebecca can hardly believe it when she sees herself on the screen, all made up & wearing a costume. she's proud, but also sad that she can never tell her family she was in a movie. the prop master gives rebecca a phonograph as payment. (didn't they have child labor laws in 1914? no? okay, then.)that's pretty much the whole story. there's not much to it. but i enjoyed it anyway. less

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