When their father's acting career hits hard times, sisters Ruth and Alice DeVere find an unlikely solution: the brand-new, faintly disreputable business of moving pictures. What starts as a reluctant compromise turns into something neither sister expected — a real chance at a career in an industry nobody respectable was supposed to want anything to do with.Written in 1914, when "the movies" were still a novelty, this is a front-row seat to the birth of an entire art form, seen through the eyes of two determined young women figuring it out as they go. A charming time capsule for readers who love their classics with a little backstage glamour.



Before Hollywood Had a Name, These Sisters Were Already Making Movies.