Entertainment & Performing Arts

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398407381Author Patrick ChurchFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

If there's one thing the nation can agree on--we all love Betty White! An unparalleled American icon, she started show business in 1939 in radio, was a pioneer in the early days of TV, and her career has spanned more than eight decades with appearances...

Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies is a paradox; a famous actress whose career spanned most of the twentieth century she is now largely forgotten. Drawing on material held in Ffrangcon-Davies's personal archive, Grime argues that the representation of the actress, on...

Erich von Stroheim (1885-1957) was one of the giants in American film history. Stubborn, arrogant, and colorful, he saw himself as a cinema artist, which led to conflicts with producers and studio executives who complained about the inflated budgets and...

Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography explores the life and career of one of Hollywood's great dames. She was a leading film personality for more than fifty years, from her beginnings as a dancer in silent films of the 1920s, to her portrayals of...

Stars in My Eyes is a revealing and entertaining collection of celebrity portraits, rendered both in acute drawings and in finely observed prose. In the 1970s and 1980s, internationally known artist Don Bachardy made portraits from life, depicting the...

Charlie Chaplin once said, "Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long shot." Chaplin released the first of his four autobiographies in 1916 when he was on top of the world. He had just signed to appear in films for Mutual...

Khwaja Ahmad Abbas distinguished himself by his ceaseless passion for revolutionary politics, which he expressed through his writings and films. He was a visionary who strongly believed that creative and artistic interventions are indispensable to...

Meticulously researched, Joan Crawford: The Last Word deals in full with her long movie career and explores in detail her turbulent private life. Respected biographer Fred Lawrence Guiles uses newly discovered sources and recent interviews with many who...

On paper Steve Katz's career rivals anyone's except the 1960s' and '70's biggest stars: the Monterey Pop Festival with the legendary Blues Project, Woodstock with Blood, Sweat & Tears, and even producing rock's most celebrated speed addict, Lou Reed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400229109Author Todd and Brooke TilghmanFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Thomas Nelson PublishersPublisher Thomas Nelson PublishersWeight(grams) 152g

This monograph is the first title in a new series titled Opera Maestra, specifically focused on the work and itinerary of the artists who made history, from an unprecedented perspective. The series begins with Leonardo da Vinci, captured by the expert...

Paul Dooley has been an actor for sixty-five years and has portrayed fathers in more than twenty-five movies. He is best known for his roles as the father in Breaking Away, Sixteen Candles, and Run Away Bride. While he was the on-screen dad to Julia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957807553Author Diane PetersonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Waterside ProductionsPublisher Waterside Productions

Comic and television star Tim Conway (McHale's Navy, The Carol Burnett Show, The Apple Dumpling Gang) enjoyed enormous popular appeal, including a wide readership for his best-selling memoir, What's So Funny? In her own humorous, loving and surprising...

Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstein direct some of the most important and lasting works of the silent era, including Strike, October, and...

The adored actress behind the character Nikki Newman of The Young and the Restless tells all in this scintillating memoir, divulging the insider details of her dramatic life and forty-year career. Melody Thomas Scott admits she is nothing like her The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310350026Author Candace Cameron BureFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 421g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988455719Author Nancy K. PeardonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Falcon PressPublisher Falcon PressWeight(grams) 409gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

During the 1960s, a bushel of B-movies were produced and aimed at the predominantly teenage drive-in movie audience. At first teens couldn't get enough of the bikini-clad beauties dancing on the beach or being wooed by Elvis Presley, but by 1966 young...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615998138Author Edward RenehanFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint New Street Communications, LLCPublisher New Street Communications, LLCWeight(grams)...

Literally the last word for Hollywood trivia buffs, a celebrity death certificate is also strangely compelling. Its matter-of-fact reportage makes the famous ordinary, illuminating previously well-lit profiles with the unfiltered light of the everyday...

The Andrews Sisters, the legendary singing trio of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s are the most successful female singing group in history and were the world's top selling group until the Beatles arrived. Of the 605 songs they recorded, 113 charted. They...

In the 1931 film Dracula, Bela Lugosi set the standard for horror film villainy. Though many actors have donned the cape since that first production, remnants of Hungarian-born Lugosi's portrayal continue to surface in popular culture -- from highly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593580929Author Ian KarmelFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Rodale BooksPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/RodaleWeight(grams) 403g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692603888Author James TurielloFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Sandy BeachPublisher Sandy BeachWeight(grams) 435g

People may say that I couldn't sing. But no one can say that I didn't sing.'Despite lacking pitch, rhythm or tone, Florence Foster Jenkins became one of America's best-known sopranos, celebrated for her unique recordings and her sell-out concert at...

People may say that I couldn't sing. But no one can say that I didn't sing.'Despite lacking pitch, rhythm or tone, Florence Foster Jenkins became one of America's best-known sopranos, celebrated for her unique recordings and her sell-out concert at...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062969972Author Jo KoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Dey Street BooksPublisher Dey Street BooksWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627680196Author William Karl ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Media Maestro - Book DivisionPublisher Media Maestro - Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470422823Author Dennis McDougalFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Quentin Tarantino is a man who came to Hollywood and didn't break the rules so much as make plain that he didn't even notice them. Making the films he wanted to see Tarantino broke through with EReservoir DogsE in 1992 and then cemented his reputation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354471896Author Nabendu GhoshFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Speaking Tiger Publishing Private LimitedPublisher Speaking Tiger Publishing Private...

"Ranging across the years, In Search of Jerusalem conjures up the spirited encounters of Michael Kustow's many-sided life: a tender evocation of his parents; portraits of actors, stage directors, painters, film-makers; vivid descriptions of post-war and...

Let us rejoice in the genius that is Kevin Smith! This fun and photo-filled biography celebrates the life, films, and fans of the director responsible for such indie cult classics as Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, and Dogma. Movie-industry veteran David...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879101664Author Norman LloydFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

For many of his theater contemporaries, Lee J. Cobb (1911-1976) was the greatest actor of his generation. In Hollywood he became the definitive embodiment of gangsters, psychiatrists, and roaring lunatics. From 1939 until his death, Cobb contributed...

Broadway actress Billie Burke was one of the most sought after young stage beauties of her time, stealing the hearts of Enrico Caruso, Mark Twain, and, most importantly, famed Broadway producer Florenz Ziegfeld, who became her husband. Following...

The son of famed director and screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz ( All About Eve [1950], Guys and Dolls [1955], Cleopatra [1963]) and the nephew of Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, Tom Mankiewicz was genuine Hollywood royalty. He grew up in...