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Ginger: My Story by Ginger Rogers
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061564703Author Ginger RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint -
Ginger Rogers: A Bio-Bibliography by Jocelyn Faris 9780313291777
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Becoming Ginger Rogers: How Ballroom Dancing Made Me a Happier Woman, Better Partner, and Smarter CEO by Patrice Tanaka 9781936661039
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Turner Classic Movies Must-See Musicals: 50 Show-Stopping Movies We Can't Forget by Richard Barrios
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $21.03Spanning 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: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86In 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: $36.11Booksplease Price: $24.25A 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: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.08Susan 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... -
I'll Be Seeing You: Picture House Girls 2 by Rosie Archer 9781529405354
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $18.86A 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... -
Steve Cochran: Bad Boy of Hollywood Michelangelo Capua 9781496863355
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $30.16Steve Cochran (1917-1965) was Hollywood's ultimate contradiction-an intense, rugged leading man with a con man's charm, a craftsman's discipline, and a wild streak that made him both irresistible and... -
Acting by Claudia Springer 9780813564326
Booksplease Price: $38.31Screen 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 by Sean Griffin 9781405194969
Booksplease Price: $100.45A 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,... -
The 1930s by Maria Costantino 9780816067190
Booksplease Price: $36.77Completely 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... -
In a Glamourous Fashion: The Fabulous Years of Hollywood Costume Design by W. Robert LaVine 9781032410944
Booksplease Price: $38.52First 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... -
Glamour in a Golden Age: Movie Stars of the 1930s by Adrienne L. McLean
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $36.44Shirley 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 9780750960564
RRP: $50.25Booksplease Price: $35.54This 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... -
The Times Great Women's Lives: A Celebration in Obituaries by Sue Corbett 9780750992558
Booksplease Price: $32.26This 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: $17.96A 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... -
Stanley Cavell and Film: Scepticism and Self-Reliance at the Cinema by Catherine Wheatley 9781788310253
Booksplease Price: $157.44"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... -
Bowery to Broadway: The American Irish in Classic Hollywood Cinema Christopher Shannon 9781589662001
Booksplease Price: $26.34Before 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... -
The Politics of the Musical Theatre Screen Adaptation: An Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations by Professor of Musicology Dominic Broomfield-McHugh
Booksplease Price: $36.61Hollywood'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... -
Vernon and Irene Castle's Ragtime Revolution by Eve Golden 9780813124599
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $34.06Vernon and Irene Castle popularized ragtime dancing in the years just before World War I and made dancing a respectable pastime in America. The whisper-thin, elegant Castles were trendsetters in many... -
Howard Hughes by Peter Harry Brown
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55Remembered primarily as an eccentric and deluded billionaire, Howard Hughes was once America's golden boy, a celebrated aviator and Hollywood legend who romanced hundreds of beautiful women. The... -
Charles Walters: The Director Who Made Hollywood Dance by Brent Phillips 9780813147215
Booksplease Price: $48.05From the trolley scene in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers's last dance on the silver screen ( The Barkleys of Broadway, 1949) to Judy Garland's timeless, tuxedo-clad... -
George Gallup in Hollywood by Susan Ohmer 9780231121330
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $30.56George Gallup in Hollywood is a fascinating look at the film industry's use of opinion polling in the 1930s and '40s. George Gallup's polling techniques first achieved fame when he accurately... -
Designing Women: Cinema, Art Deco, and the Female Form by Lucy Fischer
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $40.65Grand, sensational, and exotic, Art Deco design was above all modern, exemplifying the majesty and boundless potential of a newly industrialized world. From department store window dressings to the... -
Backwards & in Heels: The Past, Present and Future of Women Working in Film by Alicia Malone 9781633536173
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.93Women in Filmmaking and Their Struggle Against Bias"After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels" -Ann Richards#1 Bestseller in Acting &... -
Her Mother's Secret by Natasha Lester
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75PRAISE FOR NATASHA LESTER...'A fantastically engrossing story. I love it' KELLY RIMMER'Intrigue, heartbreak... I cannot tell you how much I loved this book' RACHEL BURTON'A gorgeously rich and... -
Everything is Choreography: The Musical Theater of Tommy Tune by Kevin Winkler
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $32.50Grand Hotel. My One and Only. Nine. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine. The Will Rogers Follies. For two decades, Tommy Tune was the maestro presiding over... -
Venice: City of Pictures by Martin Gayford 9780500022665
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $28.51A Sunday Times Art Book of the Year A visual journey through five centuries of the city known for centuries as 'La Serenissima' - a unique and compelling story for both lovers of Venice and lovers... -
Starring Adele Astaire: A Novel by Eliza Knight
Booksplease Price: $15.60USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight returns as she delves into the life of Adele Astaire, who served up smiles and love both on and off the stage-with and without her also famous brother Fred... -
Backwards & in Heels: The Past, Present and Future of Women Working in Film by Alicia Malone 9781633537767
RRP: $23.16Booksplease Price: $21.90Women in Filmmaking and Their Struggle Against Bias"After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels" -Ann Richards#1 Bestseller in Acting &... -
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The President is Missing: The biggest thriller of the year by President Bill Clinton 9781787460171 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $3.10Discover the global number one bestseller and 'political thriller of the decade' (Lee Child). ________________________The President is missing.The world is in shock.Terrorists are planning a... -
The President is Missing: The biggest thriller of the year by President Bill Clinton
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66'The political thriller of the decade' Lee Child'A bullet train of a thriller' A.J. Finn'A first-rate collaboration... Engrossing from page one' David Baldacci'This book moves like Air Force One. Big...