Entertainment & Performing Arts

" From his unique perspective of friendship with many of the actors and actresses about whom he writes, silent film historian Anthony Slide creates vivid portraits of the careers and often eccentric lives of 100 players from the American silent film...

This is the long anticipated, never-before-told account of one of the icons of 20th-century TV. James Arness gives a full account of his early years and his family, his military career and his film work in Hollywood which included appearances in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306845987Author Julie AndrewsFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Thorndike PressPublisher Cengage Learning, IncWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Brittany Murphy (1977-2009) was an American film, television, and stage actress, singer, voice artist, and film producer. Beginning her career, 1995's Clueless proved to be her breakthrough film; notable roles followed in Girl, Interrupted (1999), Don't...

This unique work profiles the private lives and careers of 32 American game show hosts, including the originals (e.g., Bill Cullen, Peter Marshall), the classics (e.g., Bob Barker), and the contemporaries (e.g., Regis Philbin). Organized alphabetically...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088059210Author Anissa Boudjaoui SuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 136g

Musical genius, visionary artist, enigma -- more than ten years after his death, Miles Davis still looms large as a cultural icon. In this, the first new biography since Davis' death, John Szwed draws on various archives and never-before-published...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684853710Author Lesley StahlFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 586gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615715513Author Stacy EubankFormat PaperbackPage Count 564Imprint Holding a Good Thought for MarilynPublisher Holding a Good Thought for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446578790Author Billy CrystalFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998255644Author Saskia BlockFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Square Circles PublishingPublisher Square Circles PublishingWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615540450Author Rob SacherFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Selena PressPublisher Selena PressWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 21mm

In 1965, 18-year-old Persis Khambatta became the third woman to be crowned Miss India. After moving to England and then to the United States, she found worldwide fame in the first Star Trek movie in 1979, and in 1980 she became the first Indian...

Prior to his premature death from tuberculosis in 1928, Larry Semon was one of the most popular comics on the silent screen. For a time he rivaled comedy legends Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton for fame and fortune. The son of magician...

This collection of interviews provides a revealing self-portrait of Martin Ritt (1914-1990), America's preeminent maker of social films and one of the most sensitive portraitists of the rural South. Ritt's Hollywood career began in 1958 with Edge of the...

Robyn Williams, presenter of The Science Show on ABC Radio, reveals all in Turmoil, a searingly honest and often blackly funny reflection on his life, friends, the people he loves and loathes, and a multi-faceted career that includes over forty years on...

Bebe Daniels had one of the most diverse and lengthy careers in show business. From her beginnings as a child on the vaudeville circuit to her resurgence as a radio and television star in postwar Britain, Daniels' story has not been told. Best...

These twenty heroines portrayed imperiled women in science fiction, horror, film noir and mystery movies from the 1930s to the 1960s. Some--like Sandy Descher, who confronted the giant ants of Them!--were only girls when they faced their screen perils...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743246590Author Peter BiskindFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

Actor and director John Derek was born in Hollywood, where his striking good looks helped get him a contract with David O' Selznick. Derek's career took off after Humphrey Bogart made him his costar in the cultish noir Knock at Any Doors. Derek appeared...

This reference volume is intended for both the casual and the most avid blues fan. It is divided into five separately introduced sections and covers 50 artists with names like Muddy, Gatemouth and Hound Dog who helped shape 20th-century American music...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999247914Author Paul AbrahamFormat HardbackPage Count 306Imprint Thewordverve IncPublisher Thewordverve IncWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999247907Author Paul AbrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Thewordverve IncPublisher Thewordverve IncWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990385363Author David DipoaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Teflon of America Inter Vivos TrustPublisher Teflon of America Inter Vivos...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977711727Author Saul, Silas FathiFormat PaperbackPage Count 520Imprint Saul Silas FathiPublisher Saul Silas FathiWeight(grams) 722g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983882558Author Joe StockdaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 682Imprint Hyphenates, LimitedPublisher Hyphenates, LimitedWeight(grams) 1161g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780965189347Author Laura LeffFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint International Jack Benny Fan ClubPublisher International Jack Benny Fan ClubWeight(grams)...

Thomas H. Ince (1880--1924) turned movie-making into a business enterprise. Progressing from actor to director and screenwriter, he revolutionized the motion picture industry through developing the role of the producer. In addition to building the first...

" Freddie Maas's revealing memoir offers a unique perspective on the film industry and Hollywood culture in their early days and illuminates the plight of Hollywood writers working within the studio system. An ambitious twenty-three-year-old, Maas moved...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865479616Author Tullio KezichFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 680g

Foreword by Sandi Toksvig | WATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF 2023: ENTERTAINMENT 'Give this book to everyone you know - NOW!' Miriam Margolyes 'This is a joyous, uplifting book' Observer 'He was so funny and such fun and here he is again in all his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088003879Author Barrett MartinFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Sunyata BooksPublisher Sunyata BooksWeight(grams) 531g

As a Ziegfeld Follies girl and film actress, Justine Johnstone (1895-1982) was celebrated as ""the most beautiful woman in the world."" Her career took an unexpected turn when she abruptly retired from acting at 31. For the remainder...

Becoming John Wayne explores the early westerns of John Wayne, from his first starring role in the 1930 epic The Big Trail through his breakthrough role as the Ringo Kid in John Ford's 1939 classic Stagecoach. This book argues that it was during these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999332795Author Scott Tillma TrostFormat PaperbackPage Count 686Imprint Gr8 BooksPublisher Gr8 BooksWeight(grams) 903g

Karl Dane's life was a Cinderella story gone horribly wrong. The immigrant from Copenhagen was rapidly transformed from a machinist to a Hollywood star after his turn as the tobacco-chewing Slim in The Big Parade in 1925. After that, Dane appeared in...

Stand-Up Comedy is a battlefield not for the faint of heart. You either die on that stage or you kill. In 2002, Steve Collin was a brand spanking new comic who accidentally stumbled onto a burgeoning irreverent New York comedy movement in its infancy...

Our Blessed Rebel Queen: Essays on Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia is the first full-length exploration of Carrie Fisher's career as actress, writer, and advocate. Fisher's entangled relationship with the iconic Princess Leia is a focal point of this...

Evelyn Brent's life and career were going quite well in 1928. She was happily living with writer Dorothy Herzog following her divorce from producer Bernard Fineman, and the tiny brunette had wowed fans and critics in the silent films The Underworld...