Entertainment & Performing Arts

The third of Judy Garland's five husbands, Sid Luft was the one man in her life who stuck around. He was chiefly responsible for the final act of Judy's meteoric comeback after she was unceremoniously booted off the MGM lot: he produced her iconic,...

Elizabeth Taylor was a woman of stunning beauty-an actress blessed with immense talent, and someone whose never-dull life shaped the world's view of what it meant to be a celebrity. This must-have keepsake uses a breathtaking collection of photographs to...

Storytelling is alive and well in Texas! Let storyteller and biographer Jim Gramon give you a personal introduction to some of his legendary storytelling friends.Book InformationISBN 9781556229398Author Jim GramonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557837516Author Charlotte ChandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557836007Author Eugene B. BergmannFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557834584Author Jacob AdlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 585g

Richard Ouzounian turns his probing questions and observational skills to the world of pop culture celebrity, Heknows just what buttons to push to get larger-than-life figures to reveal things about themselves they've never told anyone before.Book...

"In this thrilling debut, television producer and filmmaker Rogoff recounts her mission to bring Sesame Street to Russian audiences.... The resulting tale is one of perseverance and creativity that illuminates how even the most disparate cultures and...

Dudley Riggs didn't have to run away from home to join the circus. Home was the circus. Son of the acclaimed aerial flyers Riggs and Riggs, he made his circus debut as a polar prince parading in a wagon pulled by a polar bear. At the age of five, he...

Born in poverty in 19th century New York City, Mike Barnes rose to become America's premiere 20th century American show fair impresario, who embodied the Irving Berlin lyric, "There's no business like show business." For four decades, he...

Living Like Audrey is a captivating and insightful look at an iconic woman who was an inspiration to many and whose style, personality, and uniqueness inspires generation after generation. Victoria Loustalot (author of This Is How You Say Goodbye) offers...

Renowned for A Ballad of the West, his epic trilogy about the American West from the era of mountain man Jim Bridger to the closing of the frontier, Bobby Bridger has had a career in show business that spans the rockabilly-to-"Music City, USA"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781477296479Author Koff MensaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455621507Author Bob PerlowFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing CoWeight(grams) 400g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423496854Author Wilborn HamptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419695537Author Barbara WashburnFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 304g

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'wonderful... raw, gossipy, funny, delicate, endlessly compassionate, at moments devastating, at others spectacularly wise' THE TIMES'This is the best, truest, most shocking Hollywood memoir I've ever read. It is also one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250008855Author Rob LoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992822231Author Coleridge GoodeFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Northway PublicationsPublisher Northway Publications

Based on more than a half dozen interviews with the director himself, this unauthorized biography recounts Spielberg's childhood, education, career, philanthropic and charitable endeavors, and his extremely private personal life. This updated edition...

A star of two well-remembered television series The FBI and 77 Sunset Strip Efrem Zimbalist Jr. looks back on the many different roads he has traveled in his lifetime and recreates his most memorable experiences in the prose of a true stylist. The...

Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were a Sixties supercharged couple in an era of supercharged couples. As a pairing they were fantasy figures, impossibly desirable. Liz supple and soft, in perfumes and furs - yet with something demonic and lethal...

The remarkable life, career, and faith journey of Gavin MacLeod, the beloved star of The Love Boat and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.For 16 years, millions of Americans welcomed Gavin MacLeod into their living rooms every Saturday night. This veteran of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825308277Author Joan L. KramerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Beaufort BooksPublisher Beaufort BooksWeight(grams) 586g

Starting with their award winning profiles of Fred Astaire in 1980, Joan Kramer and David Heeley documented the lives and careers of many Hollywood legends, establishing a reputation for finding the un-findable, persuading the reluctant, and maintaining...

In the 1990s, American civil society got upended and reordered as many social, cultural, political, and economic institutions were changed forever. Pretty People examines a wide range of Hollywood icons who reflect how stardom in that decade was...

American culture changed radically over the course of the 1960s, and the culture of Hollywood was no exception. The film industry began the decade confidently churning out epic spectacles and lavish musicals, but became flummoxed as new aesthetics and...

Once described by the New York Times as "the quintessential French Romantic, half adventurer, half-intellectual," actor, singer, and political activist Yves Montand won the hearts of audiences around the world with a charisma and talent that transcended...

Hal Wallis might not be as well known as David O. Selznick or Samuel Goldwyn, but the films he produced-Casablanca, Jezebel, Now Voyager, The Life of Emile Zola, Becket, True Grit, and many other classics (as well as scores of Elvis movies)-have...

During television's first fifty years -- long before cable networks, Hulu, Netflix, and the like -- families would gather around their television sets nightly to watch entertaining shows such as I Love Lucy, Gunsmoke, M*A*S*H, The Beverly Hillbillies,...

Originally published as Jack Nicholson: Face to Face in 1975, Jack Nicholson: The Early Years is the first book written about the enigmatic star and the only one to have Nicholson's participation. In 1975 Nicholson was just becoming a household name in...

Raoul Walsh (1887--1980) was known as one of Hollywood's most adventurous, iconoclastic, and creative directors. He carved out an illustrious career and made films that transformed the Hollywood studio yarn into a thrilling art form. Walsh belonged to...

Documents the stunning accomplishments of Disney's imaginative genius. It is not a flattering portrait. Library JournalBook InformationISBN 9780812885149Author Leonard MosleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Scarborough HousePublisher Scarborough...

Anne Edwards is the author of several bestselling biographies of notable figures, including film stars Judy Garland, Vivien Leigh, and Katharine Hepburn, as well as Queen Mary and Gone with the Wind novelist Margaret Mitchell. A fastidious researcher and...

Thorold Dickinson has been called the "major lost talent of the British film industry." Nevertheless, four of his films, Gaslight, Men of Two Worlds, The Next of Kin, and Queen of Spades are among the most critically respected British films of all time...

John Lennon is a giant of popular music and culture. As one-quarter of the Beatles, he was in the vanguard of music, art, fashion and popular culture during the sixties. His music, humour and outspoken calls for peace inspired a generation. He stands as...

The first biography of sculptor Oscar Nemon (1906-1985), the unknown artist behind some of Britain's most iconic statues. Oscar Nemon is one of the twentieth century's greatest sculptors, as testified by his iconic portraits of elder statesmen and major...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573616761Author Lorraine HansberryFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Samuel French, Inc.Publisher Samuel French, Inc.Weight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393316254Author Lester BangsFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 617g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307399854Author Jann ArdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 229mm...