Rick Atkins: 3 books

Zita Johann graced the New York stages beginning in the summer of 1922. With her advanced intuitive professionalism in drama and the help of two great men of the theatre, Basil Sydney and Arthur Hopkins, Zita became a Broadway star in 1928. Hollywood came calling twice, and during a brief period in...

Reflections on Sage Lake is a memoir of a half century of summers spent at a cottage in northern Michigan originally purchased by the authors in-laws. Having always dreamed of someday owning a cottage, she and her husband and their young family spend as much time as possible at a place that became...

Carla Laemmle has led numerous lives during her 90 plus years. She appeared with Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera, as was a passenger in the coach traveling the Borgo Pass in 1931's Dracula. This bio presents an intriguing portrait of a life lived in the strange place that is Hollywood.