Entertainment & Performing Arts

For generations of film and theatre audiences, Charles Boyer was the archetypal Frenchman - cultured, courteous, seductive, yet never quite at home in a culture not his own. Even his murmuring baritone voice echoed that loss, giving him the very essence...

Herman J. (1897-1953) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909-1993) wrote, produced, and directed over 150 pictures. With Orson Welles, Herman wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane and shared the picture's only Academy Award. Joe earned the second pair of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956501363Author Alan StockwellFormat HardbackPage Count 420Imprint Vesper Hawk PublishingPublisher Vesper Hawk PublishingWeight(grams) 762g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401300951Author Hope Bob et alFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 136mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401300951Author Hope Bob et alFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 136mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593761936Author Alex CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull PressWeight(grams) 471gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605988306Author Dan CallahanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 366g

The fan magazine has often been viewed simply as a publicity tool, a fluffy exercise in self-promotion by the film industry. But as an arbiter of good and bad taste, as a source of knowledge, and as a gateway to the fabled land of Hollywood and its...

Over The Hill is the true life autobiography of Jon Jon Keefe. Actor/ comedian/ singer/ compere to the stars etc. Jon, who is now 70, has had the distinction of working with many world famous Singers and Comedians of the last 50 years including such...

Ingrid Pitt, icon of horror cinema: her life and career. Full cast and production credits, synopses, reviews and notes are offered for all of her film, stage and television appearances, along with a critical listing of her novels and other published...

Finalist, 2021 Wall Award (Formerly the Theatre Library Association Award) The untold story behind one of America's greatest dramas. In early 1957, a low-budget black-and-white movie opened across the United States. Consisting of little more than a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781726044Author Daryl LeeworthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781726044Author Daryl LeeworthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455619962Author Dave BergFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing CoWeight(grams) 500g

This is the first book devoted to the actor who has created a judicious blend of high-definition performances on the British stage and a wide range of award-winning television and film roles. ENew York TimesE writer Mel Gussow interviewed Gambon on many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982171575Author To Be ConfirmedFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 136mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401307424Author Bob HopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 180g

Foreword by Mahesh Bhatt'A remarkable story'-Tina AmbaniGrowing up on the fringes of our capital city, Gulshan Grover moved to Mumbai to pursue a career in acting in the 1970s. At a time when most wannabe actors held out for the lead, he made a conscious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307744166Author Pamela KatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 414g

Known throughout Wales for his gentle self-deprecating sense of humour and brilliant TV and radio broadcasts, BBC presenter Roy Noble guides us through the "lay-bys" of his life; his warm, loving fifties Brynaman childhood; his college and teaching days;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982141509Author Vanessa SchneiderFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784610678Author David LloydFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

Who is Rampaging Roy Slaven? An Australian icon, a raconteur, an athlete of unsurpassable - and some may say improbable - sporting feats. Whether training Rooting King to another Melbourne Cup victory, commentating the Olympics or hobnobbing with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619027947Author Leslie ZemeckisFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Porter began his research on screen legend Paul Newman in 1959 and continued collecting stories about Hud, Cool Hand Luke and Butch Cassidy until the day the star died. Newman was remarkably different from the public face he showed the world, and filled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501194290Author Howard SternFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1089gDimensions(mm) 236mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250763648Author Ash CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681884097Author Matt RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Blue Streak BooksPublisher Weldon Owen, Incorporated

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913051136Author John AmeroFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint FAB PressPublisher FAB Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062473592Author Ben FalconeFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

The conversations the 63-year-old Rossini had with Ferdinand Hiller in Trouville in Normandy in September 1855, and the finely drafted impression of Rossini himself with which Hiller prefaces the conversations, will be of exceptional interest to all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306825385Author Doug StanhopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Da Capo Press IncPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

The first authorised biography of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor. Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera personal life and magnetic screen presence, Elizabeth Taylor was the twentieth century's most famous film...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557833327Author Julie GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 458Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

This startling intimate biography of James Stewart frankly reveals with new facts and discovers a fully dimensional view of this revered figure and consummate American icon. Shrewd self-protective financially astute the James Stewart that Mr. Quirk...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306825811Author Lol TolhurstFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Da Capo Press IncPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 156mm...

This is classic Hollywood history as told through the life and career of one of its mosticonic actresses. The book benefits tremendously from the author's meeting with Olivia de Havilland after he was assigned to handle her projected memoir at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335016508Author Glenn KennyFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 231mm...

The kid gone wrong in Rebel Without a Cause. The hippie outlaw in Easy Rider. The crazed photojournalist in Apocalypse Now. The drunken dad in Hoosiers. The twisted psychopath in Blue Velvet. The actor once taken under the wing of none other than John...

"With her rigorous, authentic, and insightful biography of Nora Ephron, Kristin Doidge has gotten us all an invitation to sit around that table-to spend time with Nora and be forever changed by the encounter. This is a brilliant book."-Caroline Aaron,...