Hollywood Sisters

Hollywood Sisters is a American novel written by Maryam Wells.
==Synopsis==
The life and adventures of four sisters who are part of an acting family. Alex; Jo tries to open a boutique owner with money from her acting roles; Lizzie moves back to Hollywood after the end of her TV series; Christie moves into an apartment to attend Los Angeles Academy of Dramatic Arts.
==Plot==
A lot is happening in the lives of the Morgan sisters. The baby, Christie, 19, is moving into a apartment across from her performing arts school/ The next oldest, Lizzie has returned to home after her TV series was canceled. Things aren't any better for the next oldest, Jo, who apparently is being dumped by her steady boyfriend of the last six years, Danny and her latest stage show is a flop. The oldest sister, Alex, a 31-year-old an actress and singer, has just learned that she's pregnant, is contemplating how her life will change and trying to break the news to her husband, -.
 
The sisters sometimes turn to their mother, Freddie, a widowed stage and screen actress, for support.
They are like the Kardashians, but they come from the family of actors.
"Hollywood Sisters" follows the lives and loves of four close, but very different, sisters of the famous Morgan family living in Hollywood. Alex, the oldest, is trying to distance herself from a role that made her famous. Jo, is trying to deal with life as TV's hottest detective. Lizzie, is a musical theatre actress/singer/dancer, looking for her big break. Christie, the youngest, is student at performing arts school and a singer, trying to get a record deal.
Chapter 1
Alex Morgan stood in line at a casting call for a upcoming big-screen movie. She felt like this would be her chance to land the part. She had her meduim-length brown hair in a ponytail, her white cami tank top, her long black yoga pants, and black flats on. She was rehearsing her lines as some of her competitiors were either fixing their hair and make-up and just being bad actors. Alex believed that by landing the role, she would transition herself from small screen star to big screen star, putting herself back on Hollywood's radar. Although her career as a Hollywood actress has landed her on celebrity news on TV, countless magazine covers, and several short-lived relationships with Hollywood's elite bachelors who were actors, models, reality stars, or just plain down right wannabes.
Alex didn't come from humble beginnings, she was born to be a performer and had come from Hollywood's famous family. Her father, Benjamin Morgan was the biggest Tony Award winning actor as well as a singer, producer and director. He once auditioned for Little House on the Praire and the 70's version of The Incredible Hulk. While her mother, Fredrica -- Freddie to her close friends and family, was Hollywood's memorable darling on the Broadway stage and TV screen. She had been in numerous theatre productions as the lead and supporting lead. All her life, Freddie did plays and performed as a dancer and singer. They were an escape from her broken family she was from. Her parents divorced when she was young and her father disapprove of her plans to enter show business. He wanted her to go to law school and be a lawyer. But that wasn't what Freddie wanted. Because of her plans, she and her father had a falling out on her high school graduation day.
Freddie began attending Los Angeles South College with a theatre department and dance courses, her mother couldn't afford to send her to expensive private performing arts college. After college, Freddie did a few plays before meeting Ben Morgan in the play -, sparks flew between them. Then they got married, had four daughters and try to juggle their jobs as parents and Hollywood actors.
After she had her fourth daughter, Freddie landed the role in a soap opera called Our Secret Lives, playing Esther Diamond, the matriarch of the prestigous Diamond family. The Diamond family were an legendary dysfuntional wealthy family in the soap opera world.
Freddie's role on the daytime soap earned her the 1999 Daytime Television Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and the 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award for her work on the show. She was dubbed as "Daytime's Leading Lady" or "The Queen of Daytime Television".
As Freddie continued with her role on Our Secret Lives and Ben was directing popular TV shows, their eldest daughter, Alex followed in their parents' footsteps and developed a passion for performing. Her father wanted her away from the glitz and glamour of Hollywood and performing. He wanted to find another outlet like being an lawyer or an accountant. Alex hated math and she loved performing, thanks to the school plays she was in. By the time she was a preteen, Alex entered child print modeling and was signed by L.A. Models. She was in catalogs of every children's clothing companies and was in dozens of commercials. As she was hitting her stride, Alex landed an acting agent and found herself in supporting guest roles.
Then at fifteen and while she was attending Hollywood High, Alex skipped school to audition for the role of a new teen drama called Summer Cove. She wanted to read for the main female character, Meadow McAllister.
Much to her suprise, she landed the role. Her parents were shocked that their own daughter would skip school for an TV audition, let alone one she would book.
Alex told her parents that she had no intention on being a lawyer or an accountant like her father wanted. She was passionate about acting and wasn't going to back down on a role of a lifetime.
So, with no choice, Ben and Freddie let their daughter do Summer Cove, with a thought that if the show bombed after twelve episodes or one season, Alex would return to high school, forget about acting, and focus on careers away from Hollywood. But, of course, much to her surprise and that of her parents, Summer Cove was an instant hit when it premiered. The show's success had turned Alex from an aspiring actress from an Hollywood family to a instant celebrity. She was on covers of every teen magazine in the world and had quit school to devote to her role on the show.
During the show's hiatus, Alex had acted in a slew of TV movies and had made guest appearances on other TV shows, including the role as the trouble-making cousin of her sister, Jo's character in The Reluctant Stepmother, a TV series that made her sister famous.
But when Alex was on-location for a TV movie, she learned from one of her co-stars that Summer Cove was being cancelled and she faced the one thing she didn't prepare for as an actress, a career after being on a hit show.
After the cancellation of Summer Cove, Alex did her best to land in every available role her agent would offer her. From short-lived TV shows to her appearances on other hit popular shows, targeting the hopeless romantic audiences.
This was the reason why she was at an audition for the movie, Maximum Extreme. Waiting in line in front of a bunch of young, unknown actresses and known actresses to land the role of character Jennifer Paige. She was the love interest of the lead character. Alex knew that if she landed the role in the upcoming big-screen movie, it would do more than put her back on the map, it would catapult her to movie star status. Unknown to her, her former Summer Cove co-star Niki Stevens was standing in line of the audition. She was auditioning for the role as well.
When Alex was finally seen by the director of the movie, as well as the casting director and producers, she gave it her all. But she also have to give it her all to the lead actor of the movie, Jared Stockhard. Alex used to have a crush on Jared Stockhard when she was a little kid, she never imagined that she was going to be auditioning to play his love interest.
"Hello," he smiled.
"Hi, I'm--"
"Alex Morgan. I know who you are."
Jared was aware of Alex from her role on Summer Cove and that they nearly crossed paths on the red carpet numerous times. But this was the first time they actually met. Alex was determined to land the role of Jared's on-screen love interest. She and Jared looked at their scripts as they got into character
Chapter 2
"Next?!" the casting director called out. There were tons of actresses auditioning for the role of Detective Hannah Montgomery for an upcoming series, L.A. Beat. It was a new police drama for WKJN-TV.
Jo Morgan entered the room after being called in. She was worried that she may not land the role. She was Alex Morgan's sister and she feared that casting directiors will see that she got the role because of her sister. Jo wanted to get the role on her own.
"Jo Morgan?"
"Yes."
Jo had a bunch of acting credits. She began print modeling at ten and found herself in commercials. Then at fifteen, she was cast as Ashley Miller, the spoiled daughter of a city mayor in Gross Pointe, the hit teen drama for WTV. For five episodes, viewers saw her character share hot, steamy kisses with the cute Brad Johnson, played by Johnny Bishop. Ashley was one of Brad Johnson's memorable girlfriends. At the same time producers of the upcoming series, The Reluctant Stepmother were looking for a young actress to portray the character, Heather Martin. In the new family sitcom, an architect and single father marries his housekeeper, an El Salvadorian to prevent her from being arrested by United States government's Immigration and Naturalization Service. As she continues working as a housekeeper while being married, she becomes the mother figure to her stepchildren.
===Main characters===
*Alexandra "Alex" Morgan – Alex, the oldest of the Morgan sisters, is an actress and a singer.
*Joanna "Jo" Morgan - Jo, the second-oldest sister, is a performer and a boutique owner
*Elizabeth "Lizzie" Morgan - Lizzie, the middle sister is a musical theatre actress and singer.
*Christine "Christie" Morgan - the youngest of the Morgan sisters, is a 19-year-old college student attending LAADA. Originally she was a pre-med major, but later changed her major to drama, despite her father's wishes.
==Other Characters==
*Freddie Morgan - Mother of the Morgan sisters. She is a veteran actress for the stage and screen.
==Trivia==
*Christie is the only Morgan sister who never got pregnant throughout the series.
*Both of Lizzie's daughters' names begin with the letter "K" - Kimberly and Kristen.
*The sisters are based on