Entertainment & Performing Arts

For eighty years, Pinewood Studios has made dreams a reality. Billions of people across the globe, of all ages, from all walks of life have read six words on cinema or television screens: 'Made at Pinewood Studios, London, England'. From hosting super...

Through a career that spanned decades and included dozens of films-among them such American masterpieces asThe Searchers, The Grapes of Wrath, The Quiet Man, Stagecoach, and How Green Was My Valley-John Ford managed to leave as his legacy a body of work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312312107Author Lee ServerFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 621gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

Mary Berry is one of Britain's most respected and well-loved gurus of the kitchen. The undisputed 'Queen of the Aga' has been the focus of many television shows and regularly contributes her expertise on Woman's Hour. The recent hit BBC show The Great...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992779832Author Michael Feeney CallanFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Pentheum PressPublisher Pentheum PressWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Sidney Lumet (b. 1924) is considered one of the most gifted and socially conscious American filmmakers of his generation. His best-known movies--including Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, The Verdict, 12 Angry Men, and Network--have garnered him an Honorary...

A beloved film comedienne who worked alongside the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, and dozens of others, Thelma Todd was a rare Golden Age star who successfully crossed over from silent films to talkies. This authoritative new biography traces Todd's...

A biography of silent screen legend Mary Pickford. It aims to establish the star as a groundbreaking genius, casting fresh light on one of the most influential and least understood artists in the history of popular culture.About the AuthorEileen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374282233Author Sheila WellerFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525480341Author Julianna MarguliesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

Behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasyWarner Bros charts the rise of an unpromising film studio from its shaky beginnings in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786713035Author Jane WayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Avalon Publishing GroupPublisher Avalon Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 520gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909360242Author Mick MiddlesFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Empire Publications LtdPublisher Empire Publications LtdWeight(grams) 476g

"When Ben got out of the hospital he said, 'When I fall down and can't pick myself up we'll know it's over. Until then, we rock!'" - Jeff CarlisiBenjamin Orr was the co-founder, co-lead singer, and bassist for the platinum-selling rock band The Cars...

From his first feature film, Fear and Desire (1953), to his final, posthumously released Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Stanley Kubrick excelled at probing the dark corners of human consciousness. In doing so, he adapted such popular novels as The Killing,...

"The Importance Of Being Barbra" is a consideration of one of the most unparalleled careers in the history of show business. Tom Santopietro chronicles every role and recording in a lifetime of work that has earned Streisand the title of best selling pop...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525533924Author Craig FergusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Blue Rider PressPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

`Cooperman! The Life of Tommy Cooper' is a hilarious look at one of Britain's best-loved comedians. For almost four decades, Tommy Cooper was the most popular entertainer in the country, and certainly the most imitated. This is the story of the man and...

Throughout the 1980s, Dario Fo, Italy's best known and most provocative satirical playwright, and his wife Franca Rame, the celebrated actress and feminist, conducted a series of performance-seminars around the world on the subject of acting. In places...

When writer, comedian and Red Dwarf actor Robert Llewellyn's son scrawled a picture of him at Christmas and titled it 'Some Old Bloke', Robert was cast deep into thought about life and what it means to be a bloke - and an old one at that.In this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640094987Author Omar Sharif JrFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859653381Author Kris NeedsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd

From playing the school joker as a young boy to shake off the trauma of his parents' divorce to becoming one of the world's most bankable movie stars, Will Ferrell has always used comedy as a way to bring happiness to others. He doesn't care if you laugh...

From playing the school joker as a young boy to shake off the trauma of his parents' divorce to becoming one of the world's most bankable movie stars, Will Ferrell has always used comedy as a way to bring happiness to others. He doesn't care if you laugh...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307460745Author Patti LuPoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

For 30 years, Pat Benatar has been one of the most influential women in popular music. Now, this rock legend tells her story as she saw it, recalling her rise to fame, life in the MTV generation, her tours, the fans, and how she managed to avoid the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631681141Author Joan CrawfordFormat PaperbackImprint Graymalkin MediaPublisher Graymalkin MediaWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm * 13mm

Before "Fred and Ginger," there was "Fred and Adele," a show-business partnership and cultural sensation like no other. In our celebrity-saturated era, it's hard to comprehend what a genuine phenomenon these two siblings from Omaha were. At the height of...

The Sound of Music is more than a classic film. It is a cultural phenomenon. Its magic lives on in the minds and hearts of everyone it has touched. It was Charmian Carr who captivated us as the world's most famous older sister: Liesl 'Sixteen Going on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781960196Author Angela DouglasFormat PaperbackImprint Fantom Films LimitedPublisher Fantom Films Limited

"We had been instructed to start promptly at six, since the hall was needed again at eight. We pushed through the curtained doorway, like instrumentalists without instruments, and onto the stepped stage. The audience was still coming in. Uncertain of our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993170010Author Middleton & RogersFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Jack and Mare PublishingPublisher Jack and Mare Publishing

In Adventures of a Suburban Boy, John Boorman, hailed by the Observer as 'arguably Britain's greatest living director', offers an enthralling memoir of a creative life spent turning dreams into celluloid, and money into light.One of cinema's authentic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335010131Author Mallory O'MearaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm)...

For anyone who feels less-than about your work, your worth, your body, or the life you're building, find here an incredible hope: you don't have to have it all together to "qualify" for your life's calling.Just ask Caitlin Crosby, the former Hollywood...

Orry-Kelly created magic on screen, from Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon to Some Like It Hot. He won three Oscars for costume design. He dressed all the biggest stars, from Bette Davis to Marilyn Monroe. Yet few know who Orry-Kelly really was - until...

On 2 January 2013, just a day before Jim Davidson was due to enter the Celebrity Big Brother house, he found himself behind far more serious locked doors when he was arrested by the Yewtree detectives over alleged sex offences. Twelve months later, the...

Liz Goldwyn's lifelong fascination with the inimitable glamour of classic burlesque inspired her to spend the past eight years corresponding with, visiting, interviewing, receiving striptease lessons from, and forming close relationships with the last...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859650670Author David DaltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd

Michael Elphick was a young electrician working at the Chichester Theatre when he was discovered by Laurence Olivier, who arranged for him to join the Central School of Drama. It was here where he met Bruce Robinson, who would later cast him in one of...