Bearmanor Media: 252 books

"It's as informed, breezy and fun as you sense Jack Mercer would have wanted." - FilmfaxThe definitive biography of voice actor Jack Mercer. Voice of Popeye, Felix the Cat, and a thousand others. Completely illustrated with A - Z character list, discography, and massive credit list. A must for any cartoon lover!

During a span of 55 years, Emil Richards has been a renowned presence in Hollywood soundstages, recording studios, jazz clubs and international touring venues. Considered a supreme artist on the vibraphone, marimba and xylophone, as well as a master of his world-famous collection of percussion instruments,...

"At last someone has got the whole fascinating story together. The story of a man dedicated to music. A man like Nat 'King' Cole who was, first and foremost, a jazz musician and then, because of his unique vocal sound, became a singer. We are so lucky that he made more than a thousand recordings...

As I Remember It: My 50 Year Career As An Award Winning Writer, Producer, And Studio Executive by Ken Rotcop Film producers and studio executives know the nitty-gritty behind the scenes. Award-winning writer/producer/executive Ken Rotcop now tells all about the comical, dramatic, and tragic...

Author Michael J. Hayde’s definitive work about Superman on radio and television. Hayde is well-known for My Name's Friday: The Unauthorized but True Story of Dragnet and The Films of Jack Webb; and Little Elf: A Celebration of Harry Langdon, and this new treasure trove of information on The...

Photoplay editions were movie tie-in books that reprinted the novels on which films were based, illustrated with photos from the movies. Sometimes the novels were newly-created, based on scripts of the films, with publication timed to correspond with the films’ release. Comparable fictionizations...

The latest in a series of books by researchers extraordinaire Gary D. Rhodes and Bill Kaffenberger, *Bela Lugosi in Person *brims with new facts,figures, and never-seen photos documenting the actor’s scores of live public performances from 1931 to 1945, the era of his greatest fame.  Three-act...

LIONEL ATWILL: AN EXQUISITE VILLAIN by Neil Pettigrew Atwill starred in many classic films, including Captain Blood, To Be or Not to Be, Mystery of the Wax Museum, Murder in the Zoo, Mark of the Vampire, and many more. The biography also contains many never before seen photographs and was written...

BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - Classic Images"...an outstanding, substantial read. Tranberg always tries to go the extra mile with his biographies (Agnes Moorehead), and it's nice to see an even balance between the private life and the movies."Fred MacMurray, one of the most durable stars in...

The turbulent love story of Marko Bozdan and Maria Maric unfolds during their brief reunion in London and is captured against the contrasting backgrounds of 1970s England and Yugoslavia, emerging from the devastation of the Second World War.

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,...

Dan Duryea was a rare actor that had the knack of creating an impressive array of characters from a limited range of emotions. He used this array in different combinations and frequencies to create heroes and villains from the same patterns. It was a matter of degree pertaining righteous behavior...

Moviegoers know of Lassie, Old Yeller, Toto, Asta in the original Thin Man series, and Einstein in Back to the Future, (1985), but few know of the people behind the paws in films such as The Wizard of Oz (1939), Lassie Come Home (1943), The Thing (1951), Lassie television series (1954-1973), Hondo...

"Like millions of people, I've been listening to June Foray for most of my life. I remember when I first encountered Rocky and Bullwinkle in their first season on TV, and falling under the spell of Jay Ward's sharply-written, wonderfully performed cartoons. What I can't remember is...