Rebecca and the Movies

Rebecca and the Movies is the fourth book in the Rebecca series.

Characters

• Rebecca Rubin
• Rose Krensky
• Max Shepard
• Vera Rubin
• Louis Rubin
• Bubbie Shereshevsky
• Grandpa Shereshevsky
• Sadie and Sophie Rubin
• Lucy Valenti
• Gertie Lowenstein

Introduced

• Lily Armstrong
• Lawrence B. Diamond
• Roddy Fitzgerald

Only in Rebecca and the Movies

• Don Herringbone
• Mabel
• Bess

Chapter by Chapter Summary

Looking Back: Growing Up in 1914

Discusses childhood and the movie industry during the 1910s. Topics covered:

• The average size of families in the 1910s, and the games city children played in the streets, such as jacks, hopscotch, and stickball.
• Movies as a popular form of entertainment, with comedies, dramas, and newsreels being common genres for movie theaters to screen for audiences.
• 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.
• Mary Pickford and Theda Bara, two popular silent film actresses of the 1910s, and Helen Badgley, a successful silent film child actress.
• 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.
• The founding and origins of major American movie studios by Jewish immigrants who were eager for new businesses and opportunities.

Items associated with Rebecca and the Movies

• Rebecca's Movie Dress
• Rebecca's Phonograph Set

Trivia

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Similarities of the Cleopatra posters illustrated in the book and the 1917 film.

• The "Cleopatra" movie poster Rebecca and Rose see outside the theater is based on a movie poster for a 1917 film version of Cleopatra.