Entertainment Performing Arts category: 25367 books
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,...
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...
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...
Jimmy Stewart
The Truth Behind the Legend
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Many of the stars of the silver screen in twentieth-century Hollywood became national icons, larger-than-life figures held up as paragons of American virtues. Unfortunately, the private lives of actors such as John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and Errol Flynn rarely lived up to the idealistic roles they portrayed....
Ladies Who Punch
The Explosive Inside Story of "The View"
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
Like Fire & Fury, the gossipy real-life soap opera behind a serious show.
When Barbara Walters launched The View, network executives told her that hosting it would tarnish her reputation. Instead, within ten years, she’d...
If Chins Could Kill
Confessions of a B Movie Actor
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor Here we are together in the digital universe. Somehow, you've clicked yourself to this page. If you came here of your own free will and desire, you and I are going to get along just fine.
Life is full of choices. Right now, yours is whether or not...
by Uggie
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
A heartwarming memoir by the Jack Russell Terrier that starred in The Artist and Water for Elephants.
Uggie’s memoir offers readers the true rags-to-riches tale of one ordinary Jack Russell Terrier who made it big in Hollywood.
For the first time, Uggie tells his story of rising from...
A Star Is Born
Judy Garland and the Film that Got Away
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
New York Times bestselling author and daughter of Judy Garland tells the story of A Star Is Born -- at once the crowning achievement and greatest disappointment in her mother's legendary career. This is a vivid account of a film classic's production, loss, and reclamation.
A Star Is Born -- the classic...
Bette Davis
More Than a Woman
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Best-selling author James Spada has written the definitive biography of one of America’s greatest actresses, Bette Davis. Bette Davis participated in over 100 roles as an actress, including the films, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Jezebel, Dark Victory, and Dangerous. She won two Academy Awards,...