Entertainment & Performing Arts

Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares scandalous and laugh-out-loud tales from his four decades in Hollywood where he worked with some of the biggest names in movies.David Mamet went to Hollywood on top-a super...

A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller’s dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights  “Lahr’s cogent analyses are revelatory. . . . He does not reduce the work to the life, but shows how it explains the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982195861Author Philip NormanFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593159132Author Mel BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 140g

Born into the steam and starch of a Chinese laundry, Anna May Wong (1905–1961) emerged from turn-of-the-century Los Angeles to become Old Hollywood’s most famous Chinese American actress, a screen siren who captivated global audiences and signed her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812984781Author Jennifer HomansFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 902g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250182456Author Russell BrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316503105Author Johnny CashFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint VoraciousPublisher VoraciousWeight(grams) 2304g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538741375Author Tom FeltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316567053Author James PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams) 422g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984862129Author Dolly PartonFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/RodaleWeight(grams) 2279g

Greta Garbo proclaimed him as her favorite director. Actors, actresses, and even child stars were so at ease under his direction that they were able to deliver inspired and powerful performances. Academy-Award-nominated director Clarence Brown...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250872906Author Mary RodgersFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316495639Author Sam HeughanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint VoraciousPublisher VoraciousWeight(grams) 322g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668008324Author Steve GonsalvesFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint GalleryPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 549g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813153407Author Gavin LambertFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint The University Press of KentuckyPublisher The University Press of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641602242Author Dorothy CarvelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm)...

Alexander Granach, who died while he was acting on Broadway in 1945, brilliantly relates the remarkable story of his unlikely path from a poverty-stricken, rough-and-tumble childhood to success on the German stage. This is the account of a daring,...

Her image is iconic: Oprah Winfrey has built an empire on her ability to connect with and inspire her audience. No longer just a name, "Oprah" has become a brand representing the talk show host's unique style of self-actualizing individualism...

John Wayne was the most popular and the most durable star in film history. He was also a national legend, a folk hero, and a powerful symbol of the American Dream. Levy evaluates Wayne's film oeuvre by comparing him with other major stars of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925835212Author Anne PenderFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 350g

In Ghetto Klown, John Leguizamo lays bare his early years, discovering acting and his career trajectory. He shares his childhood memories and the tribulations of balancing life with old friends from his lower-income neighborhood in Queens while trying to...

As the career of Worsley Senior languished amid studio politics, young Wally began his own odyssey through the Hollywood legacy of the twentieth century, spending almost two decades at MGM with such actors as Greta Garbo, Jeanette MacDonald and Gene...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398410213Author Sirine MalasFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 127g

As a young Jewish boy growing up in Vienna, Georgia, Abe Orovitz could never have predicted the twists and turns his life would take. Many years later, as retired film director with more than thirty movies to his credit, Vincent Sherman is no less...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345528377Author Sarah ColonnaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint VillardPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390918195Author Ajay SethiFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & CoWeight(grams) 129g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944297848Author John Charles FrederickFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Robert D. Reed PublishersPublisher Robert D. Reed PublishersWeight(grams) 203g

"The Lives of Haydn, Mozart and Metastasio" - Stendhal's first published work - owes its inspiration to the audacious pragmatism of its author. After the collapse of the Napoleonic empire, Henri Beyle was jobless, soon destined to become a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989467220Author Linda Dayan FrimerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Granville Island PublishingPublisher Granville Island PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989467329Author Santo MignosaFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Granville Island PublishingPublisher Granville Island PublishingWeight(grams) 265g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400229130Author Todd TilghmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Thomas Nelson PublishersPublisher Thomas Nelson PublishersWeight(grams) 139g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250798145Author Lisa RogakFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 137g

Written in tightly constructed rhymed quatrains, this is the first biography of internationally acclaimed Texas jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham. Beginning in 1963 with Dorham's recordings in Denmark, this book-length poem traces the story of the Texan's...

" She was homely, overweight, and over the hill, but there was a time when Marie Dressler outdrew such cinema sex symbols as Garbo, Dietrich, and Harlow. To movie audiences suffering the hardships of the Great Depression, she was Everywoman, and in the...

Here are the ladies who pioneered and perfected the art of titillating performance in the 1950s, as captured by famous female photographer and pin-up girl Bunny Yeager. Celebrities shown include Dixie Evans, Blaze Starr, Bonnie Bell, Michelle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390918355Author Abha SharmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & CoWeight(grams) 129g

Of the many Cold War radio DJs who broadcast to the USSR, Seva Novgorodsev must be near the top of the list. A masterful BBC presenter, Seva was considered a sage of rock ‘n’ roll. His programs introduced forbidden western popular music and culture into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250847959Author Alan RickmanFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Henry Holt & CompanyPublisher Henry Holt & CompanyWeight(grams) 155g

In the early sixties at the Royal College of Art in London, three extraordinary personalities collided to reshape contemporary art and literature. Barrie Bates (who would become Billy Apple in November 1962) was an ambitious young graphic designer...