Entertainment & Performing Arts

" Anna Held (1870?-1918), a petite woman with an hourglass figure, was America's most popular musical comedy star during the two decades preceding World War I. In the colorful world of New York theater during La Belle Epoque, she epitomized everything...

Told in the stars' own words, the stories in My Greatest Day in Show Business recall the most memorable moments of 100 high-profile film and television luminaries. Complete with celebrity photographs throughout, this book offers a unique glimpse into the...

This is a story, a story of living with a gentle giant, a wonderful husband, father, and grandfather. He was kind, generous, and very slow to anger. This is a story about love, perseverance, and how love conquers all. Becky Perry Brown was married for...

Rochelle Hudson's career as an actress was planned from the start by her ambitious stage mother, who gave birth to her in 1916. Given rigorous dance and musical training as a child, Hudson won her first film contract at the age of fourteen. A WAMPAS Baby...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307888389Author Marc EliotFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 304g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142180761Author Bob DotsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 238g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538741368Author Grand Central AuthorFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345480026Author Peter BogdanovichFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813180939Author William WellmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 658Imprint 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 9781933016504Author Stan ChambersFormat PaperbackImprint Behler PublicationsPublisher Behler PublicationsWeight(grams) 336g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812994308Author Jennifer HomansFormat HardbackPage Count 848Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786750372Author Tom ShoneFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Palazzo EditionsPublisher Palazzo EditionsWeight(grams) 248g

In the early 1900s, so-called race filmmakers set out to produce black-oriented pictures to counteract the racist caricatures that had dominated cinema from its inception. Richard E. Norman, a southern-born white filmmaker, was one such pioneer. From...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390356355Author Pranab MukherjeeFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt. LtdPublisher Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925927856Author Glenn WheatleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Wilkinson PublishingPublisher Wilkinson Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063243088Author Janice DeanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 429gDimensions(mm) 240mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307338440Author Jimmy McDonoughFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 525gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345526120Author Brian Jay JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 550gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982107581Author Marcus J MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 157mm * 28mm

In The Girl from God's Country, Kay Armatage reintroduces film studies scholars to Nell Shipman, a pioneer in both Canadian and American film, and one of proportionately numerous women from Hollywood's silent era who wrote, directed, produced, and acted...

All histories of Hollywood are wrong. Why? Two words: Colonel Selig. This early pioneer laid the foundation for the movie industry that we know today. Active from 1896 to 1938, William N. Selig was responsible for an amazing series of firsts, including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812996456Author Maya AngelouFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 208mm...

Best known to Americans as the "singing cowboy," beloved entertainer Gene Autry (1907-1998) appeared in countless films, radio broadcasts, television shows, and other venues. While Autry's name and a few of his hit songs are still widely known...

Frida Leider, the greatest Wagnerian soprano of the pre-war period, has a permanent place in operatic history. In this, her own memoirs, Leider recreates the fascinating operatic world of her day, and recounts her association with Bruno Walter, Wilhelm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385352321Author Neil BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 1032gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 166mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743269179Author Scott EymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 721gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 160mm...

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Before his rise to superstardom portraying Detective Steve McGarrett on the long-running police drama Hawaii Five-O, Jack Lord was already a dedicated and versatile performer on Broadway, in film and on television. His range of roles included a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470497500Author Fr. John WooleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501142574Author Carrie WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

"Broadway, the Golden Years", is a wonderfully readable group portrait of the great Broadway choreographer-directors: Jerome Robbins, Agnes de Mille, Gower Champion, Bob Fosse, Michael Bennett, Tonny Tune, Graciela Daniele, and Susan Stroman...

At eight years old, Ricky Ian Gordon pulled The Victor Book of Opera off his piano teacher’s bookshelf, and his world shifted on its axis. Though scandal, sadness, and confusion would shake that world over the next few decades, its polestar remained...

"I read Hawks on Hawks with passion. I am very happy that this book exists." -- Francois TruffautHoward Hawks (1896--1977) is often credited as being the most versatile of all of the great American directors, having worked with equal ease in screwball...

Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of ChuckBerry draws on dozens of interviews done by the author himself and voluminous public records to paint a complete picture of this complicated figure. This biography uncovers the real Berry and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800161191Author Ross EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 243Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

In Altman on Altman, one of American cinema's most incorrigible mavericks reflects on a brilliant career.Robert Altman served a long apprenticeship in movie-making before his great breakthrough, the Korean War comedy M*A*S*H (1969). It became a huge hit...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951627089Author Darren McgarveyFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade Publishing

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Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl, born less than a year apart, lived so close to each other that Riefenstahl could see into Dietrich's Berlin flat. Coming of age in the Weimar Republic, both sought fame in Germany's silent film industry. While...