The Biograph Girl

William J. Mann, the highly-acclaimed author of Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines, now takes us on a wild roller-coaster ride through the 20th century, led by a sassy, chain-smoking 107-year-old actress named Florence Lawrence. Masterfully blending fact with fiction, Mann has reimagined this very real historical figure. From her vaudeville childhood as "Baby Flo, The Child Wonder Whistler" to the snowy Bronx backlot where she shot her first motion picture, the lovely Florence Lawrence commanded — and demanded — attention. By 1910, she was the legendary, enigmatic Biograph Girl — the world's very first movie star.Sixty years later, the fiercely competitive Sheehan twins discover a feisty, mysterious old lady named Flo Bridgewood...a woman who turns out to be none other than the renowned Biograph Girl — who supposedly died decades before. When the Sheehan brothers find her, she's relaunched into a new and unorthodox stardom. But Flo soon discovers that the times — and nature of celebrity — have changed dramatically from the beginning of the century to the end.