Performing Arts category: 25753 books
by Michael Harris
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
How The Beatles Came To America
Famous television Master of Ceremonies, Ed Sullivan first learns I have written a book about him and his show when I hand him a finished manuscript. Naively, I imagine he'll be flattered, but when he reads it, he's furious. I...
by Christopher Plummer
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
A collection of delicious anecdotes of a life spent on stages and film sets across the world—from Peter Hall’s Royal Shakespeare Theatre to The Sound of Music—from one of our greatest living actors.
Christopher Plummer’s magnificent book recounts the wild adventure that is his life,...
Andy and Don
The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
A lively and revealing biography of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, this “humorous, informative, and poignant book” celebrates the powerful real-life friendship behind one of America’s most iconic television programs and “shows how the magic was created” (Library Journal).
Andy Griffith...
Include Me Out
My Life from Goldwyn to Broadway
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
In classic Hollywood tradition, Farley Granger, a high school senior, was discovered by Sam Goldwyn's casting director in an off-Hollywood Boulevard play. Granger describes how he learned his craft as he went on to star in a number of films, giving an insider's view of working with Hitchcock on Strangers...
I'll Be Back Right After This
My Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
A New York Times Best seller!
Pat O'Brien was a skinny South Dakota kid with long hair, a rock and roll band, divorced parents and an alcoholic father. In all the familiar ways, he was on the road to nowhere until a professor, who envisioned his future as the household name he would soon become,...
Sweet Revenge
The Intimate Life of Simon Cowell
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
For this definitive biography, acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Tom Bower was granted unprecedented access to Simon Cowell and those around him—and the result is a fascinating multilayered portrait of one of the world’s most intriguing television personalities ever to dominate the music...
by Barry Paris
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
The most ambitious and personal account ever written about Hollywood's most gracious star-Audrey Hepburn by Barry Paris is a "moving portrayal" (The New York Times Book Review) that truly captures the woman who captured our hearts...
With the insights of family and friends who never before...
Ball of Fire
The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
As a movie actress Lucille Ball was, in her own words, “queen of the B-pluses.” But on the small screen she was a superstar–arguably the funniest and most enduring in the history of TV. In this exemplary biography, Stefan Kanfer explores the roots of Lucy’s genius and places it in the context...
The Top Gear Story
The 100% Unofficial Story of the Most Famous Car Show . . . In the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The full story of the unstoppable rise of Clarkson, Hammond, May, and the Stig—and how they created one of the most famous TV shows of the 21st century
Reaching a peak in the 1990s thanks to presenter Jeremy Clarkson, the original series faced the axe in 2001 but Clarkson and producer...
by Dr. Bon Blossman
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Dr. Bon Blossman was an average American child from an affluent family in Westover Hills, Texas. As she entered high school, Bon’s experimentation with cigarettes, drugs and alcohol morphed her from an honor student to a class clown, void of ambition. At the end of ninth grade, she relocated to...
Way I See It
A Look Back at My Life on Little House
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
When other girls her age were experiencing their first crushes, Melissa Sue Anderson was receiving handwritten marriage proposals from fans as young, and younger, than she was. When other girls were dreaming of their first kiss, Melissa was struggling through hers in front of a camera. From age eleven...
by Jon Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
‘I loved Jon’s book. It’s even better than the real thing because you can’t hear his voice.’ Michael McIntyre A control freak looks for love (women who leave wet teaspoons in sugar bowls need not apply). ‘I haven’t woken up with a cup of tea by the bed for seven years. It seems such...
Diana Rigg
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
The true story of the award-winning actress who became an icon as Emma Peel on The Avengers.
Voted the “sexiest television star of all time” by TV Guide readers, Diana Rigg is best known as the brilliant and seductive British agent Emma Peel on The Avengers. But the Tony and Emmy Award–winning...
The View from the Bridge
Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
"Essential reading for any Star Trek and movie fan."
-trekmovie.com
When Nicholas Meyer was asked to direct the troubled second Star Trek film, he was something less than a true believer. A bestselling author and successful director, he had never been a fan of the TV series. But as...