Performing Arts category: 25753 books
Howie Mandel
An Unauthorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
This is the unlikely story of a multi-talented stand-up comedian, actor, game show host and voice artist who has left an indelible mark on the entertainment business. Howie Mandel began as a high school dropout turned carpet salesman who went on to own his own carpet sales business. After a fateful...
by Michelle Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Murders, suicides, unexplained deaths, scandalous romances, illegitimate children, cover-ups, and more, from the 1920s to Hollywood's Golden Age in the 1960s and right up to the present day.
It covers over 60 scandals including: The Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle Scandal; Clark Gable's Baby Scandals;...
Hugh Laurie
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
A biography of the Golden Globe-winning actor behind Dr. Gregory House
From Blackadder to A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Jeeves and Wooster to House, Hugh Laurie has entertained millions in a career spanning three decades, and here is his story. This biography covers his early years-born...
Joss Whedon
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
From the cult favorite Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which netted four million viewers per episode, to the summer blockbuster The Avengers, which amassed a box office of $1.5 billion, Joss Whedon has made a name for himself in Hollywood for his penchant for telling meaningful, personal tales about love,...
Hopper
A Journey into the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
As unconventional a biography as Dennis Hopper was a man, Hopper: A Journey into the American Dream by Tom Folsom charts his roller coaster life and career through the lens of the landscape of American popular culture.
The chopper-riding hippie outlaw in Easy Rider. The prophetic madman in...
Federico Fellini
His Life and Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
A lively and authoritative journey into the world of a cinema master
With the revolutionary 8 1/2, Federico Fellini put his deepest desires and anxieties before the lens in 1963, permanently impacting the art of cinema in the process. Now, more than forty years later, film critic and Fellini...
by Coleen Nolan
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
No Regrets is Coleen Nolan's gripping new memoir about love and heartbreak.
As a member of the Nolan sisters, Coleen Nolan was born into the spotlight and has stayed there ever since. She has now become one of the nation's favourite TV presenters and is used to newspapers and magazines claiming...
Twitch Upon a Star
The Bewitched Life and Career of Elizabeth Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Based on author Herbie J Pilato’s exclusive interviews with Elizabeth Montgomery prior to her death in 1995, Twitch Upon A Star includes never-before-published material and commentary from several individuals associated with her remarkable life and career before, during, and after Bewitched, including...
by Peter Ustinov
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Sir Peter Ustinov's beautifully crafted autobiography is told with exquisite wit and insight. From his birth in April 1921, it spans his extraordinary career as actor, playwright, film star and director, confirming his early belief that he is 'irrevocably betrothed to laughter'. Ustinov's renowned...
by Ben Walker
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
This book is a focused biographical account of the life of Oscar Winning Hollywood actress, Ginger Rogers. It profiles her early life and how her career took off in Hollywood. This book also highlights her most important achievements as an actress before describing her last days and how she passed away.
Luck and Circumstance
A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York, and Points Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
From acclaimed director Michael Lindsay-Hogg (The Normal Heart, The Beatles’ Let It Be, Brideshead Revisited, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, etc.), son of glamorous Warner’s movie star Geraldine Fitzgerald: a magical dreamscape memoir of his boyhood, coming-of-age, and making his way...
The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years: From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams
The Complete, Uncensored, and Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This is the true story behind the making of a television legend. There have been many books written about Star Trek, but never with the unprecedented access, insight and candor of authors Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross. Having covered the franchise for over three decades, they’ve assembled the...
Julie Andrews
An Intimate Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Julie Andrews is the last of the great Hollywood musical stars, unequaled by any in her time.
In My Fair Lady, Julie Andrews had the biggest hit on Broadway. As the title character in Mary Poppins, she won an Academy Award. And, in 1965, The Sound of Music made her the most famous woman in...
Hollywood Madonna
Loretta Young
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Loretta Young (1913-2000) was an Academy Award-winning actress known for devout Catholicism and her performances in The Farmer's Daughter, The Bishop's Wife, and Come to the Stable, and for her long-running and tremendously popular television series. But that was not the whole story.Hollywood...