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| name = ''Rebecca and the Movies''<br />
| image = RebeccaandMovies.jpg<br />
| imagewidth = 300px<br />
| caption = The cover of ''Rebecca and the Movies''.<br />
| published = 2009<br />
| author = [[Jacqueline Dembar Greene]]<br />
| illustrator = [[Robert Hunt]]<br />
| isbn = 1593695268<br />
| setting = New York City, New York; April 3 - April 5, 1915<br />
| prev = ''[[Candlelight for Rebecca]]''<br />
| next = ''[[Rebecca to the Rescue]]''<br />
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'''''Rebecca and the Movies''''' is the [[Central_Series|fourth book]] in the [[List of Rebecca's Books#Central Series|'''Rebecca series''']].<br />
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==Characters==<br />
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* [[Rebecca Rubin]]<br />
* [[Rose Krensky]]<br />
* [[Max Shepard]]<br />
* [[Vera Rubin]]<br />
* [[Louis Rubin]]<br />
* [[Minor Characters in Rebecca's Series#Bubbie Shereshevsky|Bubbie Shereshevsky]]<br />
* [[Minor Characters in Rebecca's Series#Grandpa Shereshevsky|Grandpa Shereshevsky]]<br />
* [[Sadie and Sophie Rubin]]<br />
* [[Minor Characters in Rebecca's Series#Lucy Valenti|Lucy Valenti]]<br />
* [[Minor Characters in Rebecca's Series#Gertie Lowenstein|Gertie Lowenstein]]<br />
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===Introduced===<br />
* [[Lily Armstrong]]<br />
* [[Minor Characters in Rebecca's Series#Lawrence B. Diamond|Lawrence B. Diamond]]<br />
* [[Minor Characters in Rebecca's Series#Roddy Fitzgerald|Roddy Fitzgerald]]<br />
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===Only in ''Rebecca and the Movies''===<br />
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* [[Minor Characters in Rebecca's Series#Don Herringbone|Don Herringbone]]<br />
* [[Minor Characters in Rebecca's Series#Mabel|Mabel]]<br />
* [[Minor Characters in Rebecca's Series#Bess|Bess]]<br />
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==Chapter by Chapter Summary==<br />
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===Chapter One: Max's Magic===<br />
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===Chapter Two: A New World===<br />
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===Chapter Three: Kidlet on the Set===<br />
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===Chapter Four: Music Wherever She Goes===<br />
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===[[Looking Back]]: Growing Up in 1914===<br />
Discusses childhood and the movie industry during the 1910s. Topics covered:<br />
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* The average size of families in the 1910s, and the games city children played in the streets, such as jacks, hopscotch, and stickball.<br />
* Movies as a popular form of entertainment, with comedies, dramas, and newsreels being common genres for movie theaters to screen for audiences.<br />
* The low opinion people had for movie actors and movies as an art form compared to stage actors and productions, despite movie actors and movies earning more money.<br />
* [http://www.marypickford.com/library/about-mary-pickford Mary Pickford] and [[wikipedia:Theda Bara|Theda Bara]], two popular silent film actresses of the 1910s, and [http://www.thanhouser.org/people/badgleyh.htm Helen Badgley], a successful silent film child actress.<br />
* The migration of movie studios from New York and New Jersey to Hollywood, California, as the state had a milder climate and better lighting all year round.<br />
* The founding and origins of major American movie studios by Jewish immigrants who were eager for new businesses and opportunities.<br />
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==Items associated with ''Rebecca and the Movies''==<br />
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* [[Rebecca's Movie Dress]]<br />
* [[Rebecca's Phonograph Set]]<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
[[File:RebeccaMovies_comparison.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Similarities of the ''Cleopatra'' posters illustrated in the book and the 1917 film.]]<br />
* The "Cleopatra" movie poster Rebecca and Rose see outside the theater is based on a movie poster for [[wikipedia:Cleopatra (1917 film)|a 1917 film version of ''Cleopatra'']].<br />
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[[Category:Rebecca Rubin]]<br />
[[Category:Rebecca's Collection]]<br />
[[Category:Books]]<br />
[[Category:Historical Books]]<br />
[[Category:Central Series]]<br />
[[Category:Birthday Books]]<br />
[[Category:Birthday Collections]]<br />
[[Category:Items Released in 2009]]<br />
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