Acting category: 934 books
Reach for the Top
The Turbulent Life of Laurence Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2007
The popular screen and stage star Laurence Harvey (1928-1973) is best remembered for his stellar performance in the film The Manchurian Candidate—a 20th century classic. Of his 50 films, Room At the Top not only brought sexual permissiveness to American and British screens and an Oscar nomination,...
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...
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...
Rich and Famous in Thirty Seconds
Inside Secrets to Achieving Financial Success in Television and Radio Commercials
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2000
Rich and Famous in Thirty Seconds is written by a veteran of more than thirty years in show business and is filled with inside secrets and helpful tips, many not taught in university programs. It has in-depth interviews with successful actors, teachers, agents, and casting directors. Special chapters...
by Alisha Gaddis
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This cutting-edge, incredibly hysterical monologue book is specifically for teen girls who need the extra bang to land the perfect comedic role.
Teen Girls' Comedic Monologues That Are Actually Funny features monologues by writers and comics who have written and/or performed for Comedy Central,...
Get on TV!
The Insider's Guide to Pitching the Producers and Promoting Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Expert advice on how to get booked and asked back!
"Jacquie ought to know how to get you on TV...she's put half the country on TV, including me." --Maury Povich
In Get on TV!, Jacquie Jordan brings her expert advice straight to you--the entrepreneurs, experts, authors, and...
by Janet B. Milstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
The monologue Book you have been waiting for! Award-winning material written specifically for today's teens. Challenging monologues in real language and real situations that are really fun to work on.
by Michael St. Nicholas
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
An Actor's Guide-Your First Year in Hollywood should be required reading for any young actor headed to La-La Land with a dream in his heart and a shine on his shoes. Sure, it's a great guide to auditioning, getting a SAG card, finding an agent, landing parts, gaining exposure, and creating publicity-but...
Live Fast, Die Young
Remembering the Short Life of James Dean
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1997
Live Fast, Die Young: Rembering the Short Life of James Dean is a first — revealing James Dean from the inside out by someone who knew him intimately, in more ways than one. John Gilmore hung out with Dean during the early days in New York, and again in Hollywood when Dean starred in his first movie,...
Eleanor Parker
Woman of a Thousand Faces
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1989
This is the first book on enduring Hollywood star Eleanor Parker, long underrated despite three best actress Academy Award nominations (Caged, 1950; Detective Story, 1951; Interrupted Melody, 1955).
Parker was a beauty as well as a versatile actress, and her achievements approach those of more...
Company of Heroes
My Life as an Actor in the John Ford Stock Company
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
When Harry Carey, Sr., died in 1947, director John Ford cast Carey's twenty-six-year-old son, Harry, Jr., in the role of The Abilene Kid in 3 Godfathers. Ford and the elder Carey had filmed an earlier version of the story, and Ford dedicated the Technicolor remake to his memory.
Company of...
The Dramatic Imagination
Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2004
The Dramatic Imagination is one of the few enduring works written about set design.
Robert Edmond Jones's innovations in set design and lighting brought new ideas to the stage, but it is greater understanding of design - its role at the heart of theater - that has continued to inspire theater students....
by Jon Jory
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Until very recently, directing wisdom was passed on in the form of "tips". Continuing this tradition, you will find them ranging from the way set a scene to directing the actor on the way to laugh. The tips are clear, concise, evocative, and constructed to give you a better day in rehearsal and performance. A buffet of ways to improve immediately that you'll refer to over and over again!
Places, Please!
Becoming a Jersey Boy
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
A Jersey Boys book. A Jersey Boys story. A Broadway memoir. A how-to guide to making it on Broadway. Everyone's heard of JERSEY BOYS. Thirteen million people have seen the show, totaling more than $1 billion in worldwide ticket sales. The cast members have performed on Oprah , the Today show, Dancing...