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CIty of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's by Otto Friedrich 9780062326041
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $16.54In 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand... -
The Castle on the Hill Elizabeth Goudge 9781529378146
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Amid the chaos of the Second World War comes a charming story of courage and friendship, from the author of Green Dolphin Country and A City of Bells.In the summer of 1940, as the darkest days of the... -
Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics by Steven J. Ross
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $25.79In Hollywood Left and Right, Steven J. Ross tells an important story that has escaped public attention: the emergence of Hollywood as a vital center of political life and the important role that... -
Green Dolphin Country Elizabeth Goudge 9781473656314
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.53'Breathtaking...A long vista of undulating story, with here and there peaks of volcanic excitement' Daily TelegraphA haunting love story set between the Channel Islands and New Zealand in the 19th... -
Redox Regulation of Differentiation and De-differentiation by Carsten Berndt 9781032068428
RRP: $81.26Booksplease Price: $75.71Cell differentiation and the development of multicellular organisms are processes of self-assembly, controlled and driven by signaling molecules and cascades including redox regulation. These... -
Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland Gerald Clarke 9780751531602
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55Judy Garland, the girl with the pigtails in THE WIZARD OF OZ, was an entertainer of almost magical power. The woman of half a dozen comebacks and a hundred heartbreaks. To tell her story, Gerald... -
From Hollywood to Disneyland: Walt Disney's Dream Park and the Influence of American Movies by Robert Neuman 9781476686257
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $41.76From its beginnings, Disneyland was destined to be something entirely different from the standard mid-century amusement park. To sell his dream park to investors and the public, Walt Disney recruited... -
Showbiz Politics: Hollywood in American Political Life by Kathryn Cramer Brownell 9781469642246
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33Conventional wisdom holds that John F. Kennedy was the first celebrity president, in no small part because of his innate television savvy. But, as Kathryn Brownell shows, Kennedy capitalized on a... -
Dark City Dames: The Women Who Defined Film Noir by Eddie Muller 9780762488261
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $26.57Film noir was the dark side of the movies' happily-ever-after mythology. Sinister and sexy, it forged a new icon: the tough, independent dame. Determined, desirable, dangerous when cornered, she... -
She Damn Near Ran the Studio: The Extraordinary Lives of Ida R. Koverman by Jacqueline R. Braitman 9781496806192
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $31.33Best known as the woman who "ran MGM," Ida R. Koverman (1876-1954) served as talent scout, mentor, executive secretary, and confidant to American movie mogul Louis B. Mayer for twenty-five years. She... -
A Rose for Mrs. Miniver: The Life of Greer Garson by Michael Troyan 9780813191508
Booksplease Price: $37.75In this first-ever biography of Greer Garson, Michael Troyan sweeps away the many myths that even today veil her life. The true origins of her birth, her fairy-tale discovery in Hollywood, and her... -
Jarmila Novotna: My Life in Song by Jarmila Novotna 9780813176116
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $32.84A legendary beauty, hailed as one of the greatest singing actors of her time, Jarmila Novotna (1907--1994) was an internationally known opera soprano from the former Czechoslovakia. Best known for... -
The Theater and Cinema of Buster Keaton by Robert Knopf 9780691004426
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $38.00Famous for their stunts, gags, and images, Buster Keaton's silent films have enticed everyone from Hollywood movie fans to the surrealists, such as Dali and Bunuel. Here Robert Knopf offers an... -
Death of the Moguls: The End of Classical Hollywood by Wheeler Winston Dixon 9780813553771
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $36.44Death of the Moguls is a detailed assessment of the last days of the "rulers of film." Wheeler Winston Dixon examines the careers of such moguls as Harry Cohn at Columbia, Louis B. Mayer at MGM,... -
Happiness Is Too Much Trouble by Sandra Hochman
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Turner Publishing is proud to present a new edition of Sandra Hochman's, Happiness Is Too Much Trouble First published by Putnam in 1976, Hochman's follow-up to Walking Papers is the story of... -
Mary C. McCall Jr.: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Most Powerful Screenwriter J. E. Smyth 9780231215275
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $107.62A screenwriter, novelist, labor leader, Hollywood insider, and feminist, Mary C. McCall Jr. was one of the film industry's most powerful figures in the 1940s and early 1950s. She was elected the... -
Mary C. McCall Jr.: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Most Powerful Screenwriter J. E. Smyth 9780231215282
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.61A screenwriter, novelist, labor leader, Hollywood insider, and feminist, Mary C. McCall Jr. was one of the film industry's most powerful figures in the 1940s and early 1950s. She was elected the... -
Olivia de Havilland and the Golden Age of Hollywood by Ellis Amburn
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.34This 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... -
The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler by Ben Urwand 9780674088108
RRP: $34.77Booksplease Price: $30.03To continue doing business in Germany after Hitler's ascent to power, Hollywood studios agreed not to make films that attacked the Nazis or condemned Germany's persecution of Jews. Ben Urwand reveals... -
Hooked on Hollywood: Discoveries from a Lifetime of Film Fandom by Leonard Maltin 9780998376394
RRP: $23.16Booksplease Price: $19.70Leonard Maltin is America's best-known film historian, film reviewer, and author of books that have sold more than 7 million copies. He remains a thought leader on past and present Hollywood through... -
Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise by Scott Eyman 9781501192111
Booksplease Price: $34.79Film historian and acclaimed New York Times bestselling biographer Scott Eyman has written the definitive biography of Hollywood legend Cary Grant, one of the most accomplished-and beloved-actors of... -
Satan's Playground: Mobsters and Movie Stars at America's Greatest Gaming Resort by Paul J. Vanderwood
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.34Satan's Playground chronicles the rise and fall of the tumultuous and lucrative gambling industry that developed just south of the U.S.-Mexico border in the early twentieth century. As prohibitions... -
Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears by Michael Schulman 9780062859020
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.27The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the...