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Revision as of 22:10, 9 January 2012
The cover of Rebecca and the Movies.
Rebecca and the Movies is the fourth book in the Rebecca series.
Facts
- Author: Jacqueline Dembar Greene
- Illustrators: Robert Hunt
- First published: 2009
- Setting: New York City, New York; April 3 - April 5, 1915
Characters
- Rebecca Rubin
- Rose Krensky
- Max Shepard
- Bubbie
- Mama Rubin
- Ana Rubin
- Fannie Rubin
- Jacob Rubin
- Josef Rubin
- Michael Rubin
- Louis Rubin
- Grandpa
- Sadie and Sophie Rubin
Introduced
Only in Rebecca and the Movies
Chapter by Chapter Summary
Chapter One: Max's Magic
Chapter Two: A New World
Chapter Three: Kidlet on the Set
Chapter Four: Music Wherever She Goes
Looking Back: Growing Up in 1914
Discusses childhood and the movie industry in 1914. Topics covered:
- Games city children played in the streets, such as jacks, hopscotch, and stickball
- Movies as a popular form of entertainment in the 1910s
- Comedies, dramas, and newsreels as common genres for movie theaters to screen for audiences
- Low opinion for movie actors and movies as an art form compared to stage actors and productions
- Mary Pickford and Theda Bara, two popular silent film actresses of the 1910s
- Helen Badgley, a successful silent film child actress
- Migration of movie studios from New York and New Jersey to Hollywood, California
- The founding and origins of major movie studios by Jewish immigrants eager for new business and opportunities
Items associated with Rebecca and the Movies
Similarities of the Cleopatra posters illustrated the book and the 1917 film.
Trivia
- The "Cleopatra" movie poster Rebecca and Rose see outside the theater is based on a movie poster for a 1917 film version of Cleopatra.