Bearmanor Media: 252 books

With his dark good looks, muscular physique, heavy-lidded bedroom eyes, and easy smile, amateur boxer and Wall Street business man Jacob Krantz left Wall Street to cut a dashing figure on the silver screen for over five decades. Few knew that he was a Jewish man, when Paramount Pictures signed him...

"Best Book of the Year!" Classic Images, 2007 "Best TV Book of the Year!" Classic Images, 2007 The complete history of TV's last major western series is here! Contains many RARE photos, interviews with cast members, detailed history of the show and episode guide!

Book of the Year, 2014, Honorable Mention, from the North Jersey Civil War Round Table!Joseph Warren Revere, a grandson of the legendary Paul Revere, served in the U.S. Navy; circumnavigated the globe; raised the first American flag in Sonoma, California during the Mexican War; battled pirates,...

Newly revised and updated 2nd Edition. Airplanes and motion pictures were born within a year of one another. After the first century, they both rose from uncertain infancy through growing adolescence to robust maturity. While Hollywood’s actors and directors learned the art of making movies,...

He is the world's most iconic superhero.It's been said that his "S" logo and the Christian Cross are the two most recognizable symbols on the planet.To the people of Earth, he is hope personified.His name is Superman, and for over 75 years he has been entertaining comic book readers,...

You know Billie Burke was the Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz, but did you know that she had a small zoo in her backyard that included a baby elephant and two lion cubs? You know Claude Rains as the suave Louie in Casablanca, but did you know he began life with a debilitating speech impediment? You...

Boris Karloff A Gentleman's Life by Scott Allen Nolen CHAPTER 1: The Prolific Pratts CHAPTER 2: Canadian Pastures CHAPTER 3: Trial and Error CHAPTER 4: The Right Corner CHAPTER 5: Milestones CHAPTER 6: Son and Daughter CHAPTER 7: Doing His Part CHAPTER 8: Crossroads CHAPTER 9: Renaissance Man CHAPTER...

Midnight Marquee is pleased to present the second entry in the MidMar Actors Series. This revised volume features in-depth analyses of 30 of the films that helped create the legend of Boris Karloff: Arsenic and Old Lace Before I Hang Behind the Mask The Black Cat Black Friday The Black Room The Body...

Capitalizing on Darren McGavin's irresistible charm and his success on the small screen, Revue Studios cast him in their new series, Riverboat, which premiered in 1959. Since McGavin was also starring in Mike Hammer at the same time, he became the first actor to simultaneously star in two television...

At the age of 61, Sydney Greenstreet made one of the most memorable debuts in classic cinema as the mysterious Kaspar Gutman in The Maltese Falcon (1941). His performance earned him a Best Supporting Actor Nomination. Born in England, Greenstreet had enjoyed a forty-year stage career which encompassed...

During his lengthy show business career, George Raft achieved the reputation as one of the screen's toughest and most convincing movie mobsters. His roles in Scarface, Each Dawn I Die, Invisible Stripes, Rogue Cop and Some Like it Hot were so convincing that audiences frequently thought they...

You've seen him stand shoulder to shoulder with John Wayne as Indian Chief Scar in "The Searchers", as the insidious Fu Manchu with world domination desires and as Barnaby, the wicked nemesis to Laurel & Hardy in "Babes In Toyland."  What you might not know is the versatile...

EDGAR KENNEDY appeared in over 400 Hollywood films spanning four decades. An original Keystone Kop for Mack Sennett, he went on to support such film luminaries as Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy, the Marx Bros. John Wayne, Lucille Ball and Doris Day. Billed as "The Average Man," Edgar...

If Ginger on Gilligan’s Island had discovered Richard M. Nixon beneath a palm tree, the surprise would have been no more shocking than the contents revealed in author Gordon Lore’s treasure chest of memories.Coincidentally, he knew both Tina Louise and Nixon. For fifty years, he associated...