Performing Arts category: 25753 books
The Days of our Lives
The True Story of One Family's Dream and the Untold History of Days of our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
On a November day forty-five years ago, the first episode of Days of our Lives appeared on the NBC Network. What few know though is that the show started as the dream of one family, the Corday family, who still owns and runs the show to this day.
These are the days of their lives.
The...
Marilyn Monroe
The Final Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Published for the fiftieth anniversary of her tragic death, this definitive account dispels the rumors and sets the record straight on her last two years
Marilyn Monroe passed away at the age of thirty-six under circumstances that have remained mysterious to this day. Marilyn Monroe: The Final...
Hollywood Monster
A Walk Down Elm Street with the Man of Your Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Robert Englund, legendary star of A Nightmare on Elm Street, peels back the Freddy Krueger mask and reveals the stuff of every horror buff’s dreams.
ONE...TWO...FREDDY'S COMING FOR YOU...
You've seen him in the A Nightmare on Elm Street series—and in your darkest dreams. The sadistic...
by Ira H. Gallen
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
A HISTORY OF THE MOST CONTROVERSAL MOTION PICTURE EVERY MADE A hundred years have passed since the masterpiece of David Wark Griffith, The Birth of a Nation, first appeared on the screens of America, in the winter of 1915. It demonstrated that the cinema, no less than literature and no less than the...
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Leonard Nimoy, 1931-2015
Remembering the Man Behind Spock
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Entertainment Weekly presents a tribute to Leonard Nimoy. Star Trek's Spock - and much more
by David Sterritt
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2017
From Dial M for Murder and Vertigo to North by Northwest, Psycho and The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) made some of the most memorable thrillers in the history of cinema. Acclaimed for both his daring artistic innovations and his irrepressible showmanship, Hitchcock blended suspense,...
My Life as a Mankiewicz
An Insider's Journey through Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
The son of famed director and screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz ( All About Eve [1950], Guys and Dolls [1955], Cleopatra [1963]) and the nephew of Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, Tom Mankiewicz was genuine Hollywood royalty. He grew up in Beverly Hills and New York, spent summers on his...
That's Amore
A Son Remembers Dean Martin
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2004
Ricci Martin takes readers on a tour through his childhood, from the star-studded parties to the exploration of three marriages, eight kids, one family, to the treasured one-on-one time he shared with his father.
John Gilbert
The Last of the Silent Film Stars
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Charming and classically handsome, John Gilbert (1897--1936) was among the world's most recognizable actors during the silent era. He was a wild, swashbuckling figure on screen and off, and accounts of his life have focused on his high-profile romances with Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich, his legendary...
The Moose That Roared
The Story of Jay Ward, Bill Scott, a Flying Squirrel, and a Talking Moose
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
For those of us who love The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, these names conjure up memories of some of the wittiest, most inspired, and relentlessly hilarious half-hours of animation ever produced. There was a kind of gleeful magic to the shows, a cumulative joy that transcended the crude animation and...
Maggie Smith: A Biography
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm or tight-lipped witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith. Michael Coveney's biography shines a light on the life and career of a truly remarkable performer, one whose stage and screen career spans six decades. From her days as a West End star of comedy and...
by Edward Gross, Mark A. Altman
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
From Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross, the bestselling authors of the definitive two-volume Star Trek oral history, The Fifty-Year Mission, comes the complete, uncensored, unauthorized oral history of Battlestar Galactica in So Say We All.
Four decades after its groundbreaking debut, Battlestar...
by A. Scott Berg
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2004
For seven decades Katharine Hepburn played a leading role in the popular culture of the twentieth century - reigning as an admired actress, a beloved movie star, and a treasured icon of the modern American woman. She also remained one of the most private of all the public figures of her time.
In...
Elizabeth Taylor
The Lady, The Lover, The Legend 1932-2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
From her fairytale childhood to her impressive array of movies and marriages, Elizabeth Taylor's life, both on and off the screen, has enchanted, saddened, appalled, and entertained us for the past seven decades.
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lady, The Lover, The Legend -- the first new biography to...