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Ginger: My Story by Ginger Rogers
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £14.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061564703Author Ginger RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint HarperPaperbacksPublisher... -
Ginger Rogers: A Bio-Bibliography by Jocelyn Faris 9780313291777
Booksplease Price: £70.54Though chiefly remembered as the dance partner of Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers had many other significant achievements in the entertainment world. She was a dancer, singer, comedienne, and Academy... -
Top Hat by Peter William Evans
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £18.71Top Hat is the first volume to spotlight this classic Hollywood film, probing the musical genre, notions of romance and subjectivity, as well as the contested relations between the sexes. Offers a... -
Top Hat by Peter William Evans 9781405188296
Booksplease Price: £71.00Top Hat is the first volume to spotlight this classic Hollywood film, probing the musical genre, notions of romance and subjectivity, as well as the contested relations between the sexes. Offers a... -
Becoming Ginger Rogers: How Ballroom Dancing Made Me a Happier Woman, Better Partner, and Smarter CEO by Patrice Tanaka 9781936661039
Booksplease Price: £18.24What brings you joy? "To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be serious business not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of... -
Turner Classic Movies Must-See Musicals: 50 Show-Stopping Movies We Can't Forget by Richard Barrios
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.30Spanning nine decades and showcasing the most memorable songs, dazzling dancing, and brightest stars ever to grace the silver screen, Must-See Musicals is the guide to the greatest musicals of all... -
Ballroom: A People’s History of Dancing Hilary French 9781789149999
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42In the early twentieth century, American ragtime and the Parisian tango fuelled a dancing craze in Britain. Public ballrooms were built throughout the country, providing a glamorous setting... -
The Ice Cream Blonde: The Whirlwind Life and Mysterious Death of Screwball Comedienne Thelma Todd by Michelle Morgan 9781613730386
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £18.98A 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... -
Speaking of Harpo by Susan Fleming Marx
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.82Susan Fleming appeared in three Broadway shows and twenty-eight films before she turned her back on a show business career she never really enjoyed or wanted. The role of her lifetime came when she... -
Howard Hughes by Peter Harry Brown 9780306813924
Booksplease Price: £19.31Howard Hughes was one of the most amazing, intriguing, and controversial figures of the twentieth century. He was the billionaire head of a giant corporation, a genius inventor, an ace pilot, a... -
I'll Be Seeing You: Picture House Girls 2 by Rosie Archer 9781529405354
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £14.62A World War 2 saga to warm the heart. Three women become friends when working in their local picture house. When life is so tough for everyone, a trip to the pictures is the perfect way to escape, to... -
Acting by Claudia Springer 9780813564326
Booksplease Price: £28.33Screen performances entertain and delight us but we rarely stop to consider actors' reliance on their craft to create memorable characters. Although film acting may appear effortless, a host of... -
Free and Easy?: A Defining History of the American Film Musical Genre Sean Griffin 9781405194952
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £22.67A History of the American Musical narrates the evolution of the film musical genre, discussing its influences and how it has come to be defined; the first text on this subject for over two decades,... -
Free and Easy?: A Defining History of the American Film Musical Genre by Sean Griffin 9781405194969
Booksplease Price: £77.37A History of the American Musical narrates the evolution of the film musical genre, discussing its influences and how it has come to be defined; the first text on this subject for over two decades,... -
Film Stars' Television Projects: Pilots and Series of 50+ Movie Greats, 1948-1985 Richard Irvin 9781476669168
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59Bette Davis as a madam. Orson Welles hosting The Twilight Zone. Mae West voicing a cartoon character. Shirley Temple playing a social worker. While Hollywood stars like Lucille Ball, Loretta Young... -
When Words Start to Sing by Lisa 9781291990645
RRP: £22.80Booksplease Price: £21.80When Words Start To Sing is the second poetry collection of author Lisa. Her first was published in 2007, Nothing is Forgotten. Lisa resides in The Netherlands with her partner and their dog, miss... -
The 1930s by Maria Costantino 9780816067190
Booksplease Price: £28.37Completely revised in full-color, ""Fashions of a Decade: The 1930s"" examines the role of fashion as it made its way through the Great Depression, exploring the social and cultural aspects of... -
The Stars of Hollywood Remembered: Career Biographies of 82 Actors and Actresses of the Golden Era, 1920s-1950s J.G. Ellrod 9780786402946
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59Don Ameche, Eve Arden, George Burns, Bette Davis, Greer Garson, Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, George Raft, Ginger Rogers, Barbara Stanwyck, Orson Welles, Cornel Wilde--these are among the stars who... -
Stanley Cavell and Film: Scepticism and Self-Reliance at the Cinema by Catherine Wheatley 9781350191358
Booksplease Price: £34.84“Film is made for philosophy,” asserted Stanley Cavell. In addition to his work on scepticism, morality, and the intentions and meanings of ordinary language, the American philosopher wrote... -
In a Glamourous Fashion: The Fabulous Years of Hollywood Costume Design by W. Robert LaVine 9781032410944
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £27.23First published in 1981, In A Glamourous Fashion is not only a fascinating look at film fashion portraying the glamour and glitter of Hollywood’s heyday; but is also an invaluable reference source... -
In a Glamourous Fashion: The Fabulous Years of Hollywood Costume Design W. Robert LaVine 9781032410937
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £92.92First published in 1981, In A Glamourous Fashion is not only a fascinating look at film fashion portraying the glamour and glitter of Hollywood's heyday; but is also an invaluable reference source... -
American Film Musical Themes and Forms Michael Dunne 9780786418770
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59The musical has been called ""the most popular form of entertainment in the world."" This work examines the subjects, themes, and contemporary relevance of Hollywood musicals through their long... -
Glamour in a Golden Age: Movie Stars of the 1930s by Adrienne L. McLean
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.25Shirley Temple, Clark Gable, Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer, Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo, William Powell and... -
The Times Great Women's Lives: A Celebration in Obituaries by Sue Corbett 9780750992558
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.84This selection of Times obituaries from 1872 to 2014 revisits the lives of 125 women who have all, in their own way, played an important part in women's educational, professional, social, cultural... -
Fred Astaire by Joseph Epstein 9780300158441
Booksplease Price: £13.92A portrait of America's most graceful and elegant male dancer and how he came to represent the essence of style, suavity, and charm Joseph Epstein's Fred Astaire investigates the great dancer's... -
Liberace: A Bio-Bibliography by Jocelyn Faris 9780313293832
Booksplease Price: £66.89Born in Wisconsin in 1919, Wladziu Valentino Liberace began his career as a performer at roadhouses, bars, stag parties, afternoon teas, and dances in the Milwaukee area. Television brought him to... -
Jayne Mansfield: A Bio-Bibliography Jocelyn Faris 9780313285448
Booksplease Price: £70.54People today remember Jayne Mansfield as a famous Hollywood movie star. However, she starred in only three American movies before moving to low-budget European films. She was a master of publicity... -
The Wampas Baby Stars: A Biographical Dictionary, 1922-1934 Roy Liebman 9780786440610
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19In 1922, an early association of film publicists known as the Western Associated Motion Picture Advertisers (Wampas) hit upon a strategy to call attention to their organization and their industry... -
The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s by Elizabeth Kendall 9780815411994
Booksplease Price: £15.75In the 1934 classic It Happened One Night, heiress Claudette Colbert races away from the altar and a conventional marriage and throws herself into a wisecracking rough-and-tumble affair with Clark... -
The Songs of Hollywood by Philip Furia 9780195337082
Booksplease Price: £39.38From "Over the Rainbow" to "Moon River" and from Al Jolson to Barbra Streisand, The Songs of Hollywood traces the fascinating history of song in film, both in musicals and in dramatic movies such as... -
Bowery to Broadway: The American Irish in Classic Hollywood Cinema Christopher Shannon 9781589662001
Booksplease Price: £20.42Before Johnny Depp and "Public Enemies", there was "The Public Enemy". James Cagney's 1931 portrayal of the Irish American gangster Tommy Powers set the standard for the Hollywood gangster and helped... -
Guardians by Iain Mackenzie-Blair 9780993217104
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.591930: Salter's Creek, former trading-post, an isolated settlement in NW Canada long-fallen into decline after rumours of a gold strike turned out to be false, serves scattered outlying homesteads... -
Tap!: The Greatest Tap Dance Stars And Their Stories, 1900-1955 by Rusty Frank
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.55From the vaudeville era, through the Astaire-Rogers movies, to the intricate artistry of bebop, tap has dominated American dance with its rhythm, originality, and humour. This book collects the... -
M-G-M's Greatest Musicals by Hugh Fordin 9780306807305
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £17.50M-G-M's Greatest Musicals (originally published as The World of Entertainment! Hollywood's Greatest Musicals ) is not a biography of Arthur Freed (1894-1973), producer of the most outstanding... -
Small Town Big Dream: The Life of Nancy Zeckendorf by Nancy Zeckndorf
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £21.38This is a story of a young girl from a small town with a big dream that took her to Juilliard, Broadway, summer stock, the stage of the Metropolitan Opera and the Santa Fe Opera, and introduced her... -
The Politics of the Musical Theatre Screen Adaptation: An Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations by Professor of Musicology Dominic Broomfield-McHugh
RRP: £26.49Booksplease Price: £24.37Hollywood's conversion to sound in the 1920s created an early peak in the film musical following the immense success of The Jazz Singer. The opportunity to synchronize moving pictures with a... -
Radio Series Scripts, 1930-2001: A Catalog of the American Radio Archives Collection by Jeanette M. Berard 9780786424696
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £56.67Who were the 35 actors that performed with stars Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in radio's The Abbott and Costello Show? Do scripts survive for the old Burns and Allen shows or the children's crime... -
Quentin Tarantino Edward Gallafent 9780582473041
Booksplease Price: £41.57Quentin Tarantino is one of the best-known living American filmmakers in the world, and the story of his career has been the subject of a number of books and articles. But what do his films mean? In... -
The 1930s by William H. Young 9780313316029
Booksplease Price: £56.97Most historical studies bury us in wars and politics, paying scant attention to the everyday effects of pop culture. Welcome to America's other history-the arts, activities, common items, and popular... -
Fred Astaire: A Bio-Bibliography Larry E. Billman 9780313290107
Booksplease Price: £70.54One of the most dynamic figures of the entertainment industry, Fred Astaire's career spanned most of the twentieth century. For some, he brings to mind the world of Broadway. For others, he...