Entertainment & Performing Arts

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087978451Author Channon RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471752684Author James Robert ParishFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907613036Author Brian Sterling-VeteFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Majorvision InternationalPublisher Majorvision InternationalWeight(grams)...

Ann Miller (1923-2004) was an American actress, dancer, singer and author. Best known as a tap dancer, Miller practiced all forms of dance, and some of her solo routines are considered as good as any recorded in film musical history. Despite a...

A portrait of America's most graceful and elegant male dancer and how he came to represent the essence of style, suavity, and charm Joseph Epstein's Fred Astaire investigates the great dancer's magical talent, taking up the story of his life, his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451636444Author Piers Paul ReadFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 789gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557835598Author Eric BentleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

"Fun and gossipy." -The Wall Street Journal * "A masterful history." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) * "Engaging." -Newsweek A "brisk, insightful, and deliciously detailed take" (Kirkus Reviews) on a transformative decade on Broadway, featuring...

The name of Carl Hagenbeck is as evocative in Europe as that of P. T. Barnum or Walt Disney in North America. Hagenbeck was the nineteenth century's foremost animal trader and ethnographic showman, known for his enormously popular displays of people,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061131233Author Christopher Kennedy LawfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

The iconic actor Charles McGraw appeared in over 140 roles on films and television, including the classic noir pictures The Killers (1946) and The Narrow Margin (1952). Whether portraying tough cops or sadistic killers, McGraw brought a unique...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982579435Author Dina KuceraFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Dream of Things MediaPublisher Dream of Things MediaWeight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425285190Author Lauren GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm)...

Many stars of the silver screen in twentieth-century Hollywood became icons. However, the private lives of actors such as John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and Errol Flynn rarely lived up to the idealistic roles they portrayed. James Stewart was known as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812985177Author Lena DunhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375702075Author Stefan KanferFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm)...

This is the fascinating story of Mary Maguire, a 1930s Australian ingenue who sailed for Hollywood and a fabulous life, only to have her career cut short by scandal and tragedy. Packed with celebrity, history and gossip, AUSTRALIA'S SWEETHEART is perfect...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307237590Author Donald SpotoFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 425g

This book is the authorised and fully documented history of the late Sir Nigel Hawthorne's fifty-year career in the theatre. It presents an appraisal of post-war theatre by focusing on the personal journey of one of Britain's finest and most respected...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780354590Author Julie Pearce-MartinFormat HardbackPage Count 214Imprint Upfront PublishingPublisher Upfront PublishingDimensions(mm) 156mm * 234mm * 10mm

Hailed as "irrepressibly spirited and entertaining" (Pico Iyer, Time) and "a fascinating cultural survey" (Paul Devlin, Daily Beast), this provocative first biography of Charlie Chan presents American history in a way that it has never been told before...

Martin Sheen, best known for his role as a Catholic president in the prestigious television series The West Wing, returned to the practice of his Catholic faith at the age of forty after decades away. After years of battling alcohol addiction, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063073296Author Kelly RipaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Noted for his charisma, talent, and striking good looks, director Rex Ingram (1893 1950) is ranked alongside D. W. Griffith, Marshall Neilan, and Erich von Stroheim as one of the greatest artists of the silent cinema. Ingram briefly studied sculpture at...

John Lennon is one of the most well known founders of rock 'n' roll. The glamour surrounding the life and death of this superstar has been portrayed in myriad books. But never from his own point of view. Lennon in America goes beyond the guesses,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557046642Author Edward McPhersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Newmarket Press,U.S.Publisher Newmarket Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557836090Author John Kenneth MuirFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Joe Posnanski enters the colorful world of Harry Houdini and his legions of devoted fans to explore the illusionist's impact on global culture-and why his legacy endures to this day. Nearly a century after Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926, he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643708133Author Stephen BurumFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint American CinematographerPublisher American CinematographerWeight(grams)...

In this first illustrated book of the celebrated choreographer's life and work, extracts from personal journals and letters with photographs from his own collection reveal how some of the masterpieces of 20th century musical theatre and dance came about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143108870Author Brian KellowFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

With his tender, funny memoir of four decades in the business, Alan Zweibel traces the history of American comedy Alan Zweibel started his comedy career selling jokes for seven dollars apiece to the last of the Borscht Belt stand-ups. Then one...

The biggest female box office attraction in Hollywood history, Doris Day remains unequalled as the only entertainer who has ever triumphed in movies, radio, recordings, and television. But while on screen Day may have projected a wholesome image, her...

The only performer to earn 5 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Gene Autry was the singing cowboy king of American entertainment. Now, in Public Cowboy No.1, Holly George-Warren offers the first serious biography of this singular individual, in a...

The Jazz Life of Dr. Billy Taylor: America's Classical Musician is the autobiography of the legendary jazz ambassador whose work spans more than six decades, from the heyday of 52nd Street in 1940s New York City to CBS Sunday Morning. Beginning with his...

The biography of a fascinating cultural hero, Rene Blum and the Ballets Russes uncovers the events in the life of the enigmatic and brilliant writer and producer who perished in the Holocaust. Brother of Leon Blum, the first socialist prime minister of...

This book is the first to address in a serious way the impact and meaning of the music of "Weird Al" Yankovic. Though everyone knows his name, Yankovic is often dismissed as a novelty. His music builds on a rich American tradition of parody song, with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608872596Author Steven DalyFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

Marlene Dietrich never threw away anything. She kept her good-luck rag doll (it appeared with her in The Blue Angel and followed her to dressing tables on every movie set). She kept the letters she received from her lovers and her husband of fifty-three...

When people think about Marlon Brando, they think of the film star, the hunk and the scandals. Susan L. Mizruchi finds the Brando others have missed: the man who collected four thousand books; the man who rewrote scripts, trimming his lines to make them...