Performing Arts category: 25753 books
by Pauline Quirke
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Pauline Quirke was a skinny child, a slim teenager, a curvy woman, then - according to her bathroom scales (curse them) - just plain fat. Yes, the 'F' word. Tipping the scales at nearly 20 stone, with creaking knees and a dodgy ankle to boot, at the beginning of 2011 Pauline had reached a crisis...
Head of Drama
The Memoir of Sydney Newman
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The memoir of the creator of Doctor Who and a legend in British and Canadian TV and film
A major influence on the BBC and independent television in Britain in the 1960s, as well as on CBC and the National Film Board in Canada, Sydney Newman acted as head of drama at a key period in the history...
Meet the Mertzes
The Life Stories of I Love Lucy's Other Couple
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Meet the Mertzes is an expansive dual biography chronicling the lives of two of America's most popular situation-comedy actors, William Frawley and Vivian Vance, who portrayed Fred and Ethel Mertz on I Love Lucy. This meticulously researched book contains interviews with Frawley's and Vance's colleagues,...
The Movie Queen Quiz Book
A Trivia Test Dedicated to Fabulous Female Film Stars
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2002
Do you know
Which movie queens were the first mother and daughter to each receive an Oscar nomination in the same year? Which movie queens appeared in advertisements for products ranging from Coppertone tanning lotion to Depends undergarments? Which movie queen (and show-biz legend) delivered...
On Sunset Boulevard
The Life and Times of Billy Wilder
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
On Sunset Boulevard, originally published in 1998, describes the life of acclaimed filmmaker Billy Wilder (1906-2002), director of such classics as Sunset Boulevard, The Lost Weekend, The Seven Year Itch, and Sabrina. This definitive biography takes the reader on a fast-paced journey from Billy Wilder's...
What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?
A Portrait of an Independent Career
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
At the age of twenty-five, Orson Welles (1915--1985) directed, co-wrote, and starred in Citizen Kane, widely regarded as the greatest film ever made. But Welles was such a revolutionary filmmaker that he found himself at odds with the Hollywood studio system. His work was so far ahead of its time...
Lee J. Cobb
Characters of an Actor
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
For many of his theater contemporaries, Lee J. Cobb (1911–1976) was the greatest actor of his generation. In Hollywood he became the definitive embodiment of gangsters, psychiatrists, and roaring lunatics. From 1939 until his death, Cobb contributed riveting performances to a number of films, including...
Cool Hand Lou
My Fifty Years in Hollywood and on Broadway
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
In this candid memoir, actor and director Lou Antonio recounts his five decades in television, film and theater, from live television to Broadway to Emmy-nominated Movies of the Week. Antonio describes with humor and insight the changes in audience tastes and technical developments during his career,...
Laid Bare
My story of love, fame and survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Gail Porter burst on to our TV screens in the late 90s presenting The Movie Chart Show, Alive and Kicking and Top of the Pops. Bright, sparky and beautiful she soon attracted an entirely different audience, posing for a number of men's magazines and rapidly becoming the pin-up of the lad-mag generation....
by Kristina Rhianoff
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Kristina was born in 1977 in Vladivostok, East Russia, a bleak naval town closed to foreigners under Soviet rule. Despite the limitations this imposed, Kristina’s early years were spent in a creative home, in which her father’s love of music saw her dancing from an early age. It was Latin music,...
Mary Wickes
I Know I've Seen That Face Before
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Moviegoers know her as the housekeeper in White Christmas, the nurse in Now, Voyager, and the crotchety choir director in Sister Act. This book, filled with never-published behind-the-scenes stories from Broadway and Hollywood, chronicles the life of a complicated woman who brought an assortment of...
Inside Out
A Memoir of the Blacklist
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
In an immensely alive and pointed memoir by a writer who was himself blacklisted during what Lillian Hellman so aptly called "scoundrel time, " Bernstein recounts his passage from idealist to scapegoat. Chronicling his writing careers in Hollywood and then television, Bernstein tells of...
Barre Hopping at Midnight
A Dani Spevak Short Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Aspiring ballerina-slash-amateur detective Dani Spevak is back in this humorous short story!
Dani and her friends are spending spring break in beautiful Sedona, Arizona for the annual Southwest Teen Arts Festival. But how can she concentrate on performing when her not-quite-boyfriend is...
Intrepid Laughter
Preston Sturges and the Movies
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Throughout his career, Preston Sturges (1898--1959) was known for bringing sophistication and wit to the genre of comedy, establishing himself as one of the most valuable writer-directors in 1940s Hollywood. Today, more than fifty years after they were originally produced, his films have lost little...