Performing Arts category: 25753 books
Hide in Plain Sight
The Hollywood Blacklistees in Film and Television, 1950-2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Hide in Plain Sight completes Buhle and Wagner's trilogy on the Hollywood blacklist. When the blacklistees were hounded out of Hollywood, some left for television where many worked on children's shows like "Rocky and Bullwinkle." A number wrote adult sitcoms such as The Donna Reed Show,...
What a Life!
The Autobiography of Jim Whelan
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Many people may not have heard of actor Jim Whelan but he has appeared in some of the most iconic programmes on British television over the past four decades, from Crown Court and Last of the Summer Wine to The Royle Family and Heartbeat. What a Life is the story of one man’s passion for acting and...
Better Late Than Never
From Barrow Boy to Ballroom
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Better Late Than Never is the extraordinary true story of how a man born into poverty in London's East End went on to find stardom late in life when he was chosen to be head judge on BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing. Len Goodman tells all about his new-found fame, his experiences on Strictly Come Dancing,...
Home Work
A Memoir of My Hollywood Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
In this follow-up to her critically acclaimed memoir, Home, Julie Andrews shares reflections on her astonishing career, including such classics as Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, and Victor/Victoria.
In Home, the number one New York Times international bestseller, Julie Andrews recounted...
Your Call
What My Listeners Say and Why We Should Take Note
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
'Full of glorious examples of caller wisdom [with] laugh-out-loud anecdotes' Allison Pearson
Having taken over 25,000 listener calls on his BBC Radio 2 lunchtime show, Jeremy Vine decided it was time to take stock of the wisdom his listeners have imparted over the airwaves. And it is clearer...
Man Called Harris
The Life of Richard Harris
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Richard Harris was a giant who oozed charisma on screen; offscreen, however, he was troubled and addicted to every pleasure life could offer. Coming from a repressed Irish Catholic background, he was forced by a teenage illness to abandon his beloved rugby, but not his macho appetites. Discovering...
Going on the Turn
Being the Extraordinary Stories of My Life and Dodging Deaths Door
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
In this book my father dies. I almost die.*** My showbiz career winds down. And yet everyone keeps telling me it's the funniest book I've ever written. If I'd known that's what the public wanted, I'd have cancelled Pets Win Prizes and just got sick sooner.
Along the way this time we encounter,...
Heart and Soul
The Emotional Autobiography of Melissa Bell, Alexandra Burke's Mother
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Melissa Bell is the mother of X Factor winner Alexandra Burke. But her own life story is even more remarkable than that of her daughter and is truly inspiring in its own right. From the age of four, music filled every corner of Melissa's life: she could play the piano, was constantly singing, and...
Remember the Time
Protecting Michael Jackson in His Final Days
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
A compellingly candid memoir that details Jackson's life in seclusion, by the bodyguards who were with him in his final days - with a new introduction to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Michael Jackson's death .
Hounded by the tabloid media, driven from his self-made sanctuary, Neverland,...
by Sheila Weller
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
A remarkably candid biography of the remarkably candid—and brilliant—Carrie Fisher
In her 2008 bestseller, Girls Like Us, Sheila Weller—with heart and a profound feeling for the times—gave us a surprisingly intimate portrait of three icons: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon....
by George Cole, Brian Hawkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
The World was my Lobster tells the story of George Cole's more than 70 years in the acting profession that began with a walk-on part at the age of 14 in the stage musical The White Horse Inn in 1939, and continues today having included such roles as David Bliss in the radio and television versions...
James Mason
A Personal Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
The author's half sister Pamela was James Mason's first wife and Diana de Rosso enjoyed a close friendship with the actor throughout his life. Drawing on her own experience and interviews with those who knew him, including Alec Guinness, Margaret Lockwood, Deborah Kerr and many other actors, directors and writers, Diana de Rosso lets us into the real life of a truly great Englishman.
Guillaume
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Guillaume: A Life is the autobiography of esteemed Broadway, Hollywood, and television star Robert Guillaume. Ten months after suffering a stroke, Guillaume—perhaps best known as television’s Benson—began this autobiography with award-winning author and collaborator David Ritz.
The book...
James Dean: The Mutant King
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
This is the book that restarted the James Dean cult by celebrating him as the cool, defiant visionary of pop culture who made adolescence seem heroic instead of awkward and who defined the style of rock ’n’ roll’s politics of delinquency. The only book to fully show how deliberately and carefully...