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My Life (Revised and Updated)

by Isadora Duncan & Joan Acocella

A remarkable account of a wildly artistic life, finally restored to its unexpurgated form, with a revealing new introduction by Joan Acocella.The visionary choreographer and dancer Isadora Duncan (1877-1927)...


Mary Wickes: I Know I've Seen That Face Before

by Steve Taravella

Moviegoers know her as the housekeeper in White Christmas, the nurse in Now, Voyager, and the crotchety choir director in Sister Act. This book, filled with never-published behind-the-scenes stories from Broadway...


Being Oscar: From Mob Lawyer to Mayor of Las Vegas

by Oscar Goodman

In BEING OSCAR, Oscar Goodman recounts the stories and cases of his epic life as one of America’s most celebrated criminal defense attorneys.


Tragic Muse: Rachel of the Comedie-Francaise

by Rachel Brownstein

Rachel Felix (1821-58), the homely daughter of poor Jewish peddlers, was the first stage actress to achieve international stardom - and the last person one would have expected to resurrect the cultural patrimony...


Cagney

by John Mccabe

John McCabe's participation in the writing of James Cagney's autobiography, the many years of friendship that followed, and an intense period of interview and discussion in preparation for a musical comedy based...


Standing in the Wings: The Beatles, Brian Epstein and Me

by Joe Flannery

Joe Flannery has been described as the 'Secret Beatle', and as the business associate and partner of Brian Epstein, he became an integral part of The Beatles' management team during their rise to fame in the...


The Man Who Seduced Hollywood: The Life and Loves of Greg Bautzer, Tinseltown's Most Powerful Lawyer

by B. James Gladstone & Robert Wagner

In Hollywood history, no other lawyer has achieved the movie star–like fame and glamour that Greg Bautzer enjoyed. This revealing biography tells, for the first time, the amazing story of a self-made man who...


Read My Lips: Stories of a Hollywood Life

by Sally Kellerman

Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Sally Kellerman pulls back the curtain on the legendary Hollywood decades of the 60s and 70s, with no paparazzi, no traffic, and no 24-hour entertainment news.


Reading Mahler: German Culture and Jewish Identity in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna

by Carl Niekerk

Gustav Mahler's music is more popular than ever, yet few are aware of its roots in German literary and cultural history in general, and in fin-de-siècle Viennese culture in particular. Taking as its point of...


Dear Dorothy: Letters from Nicolas Slonimsky to Dorothy Adlow

by Nicolas Slonimsky & Electra Slonimsky Yourke

In the mid-twentieth century renowned musicologist, conductor, and lexicographer Nicolas Slonimsky traveled to cities throughout the world to play and conduct music of the American avant-garde. From trips to...


The Friedkin Connection

by William Friedkin

With such seminal movies as The Exorcist and The French Connection, Academy Award-winning director William Friedkin secured his place as a great filmmaker. A maverick from the start, Friedkin joined other young...


Audrey in Rome

by Luca Dotti, Ludovica Damiani & Sciascia Gambaccini

Assembled by Audrey Hepburn's son Luca Dotti, Audrey in Rome is an intimate collection of almost two hundred candid photographs of the beloved actress and much-imitated style icon during the twenty-year period...


Liberace Extravaganza!

by Connie Furr Soloman & Jan Jewett

Known for his spectacular performances, the magnificent Wladziu Valentino Liberace was a world-renowned star in the entertainment industry for more than four decades, and his dazzling, often outrageous costumes...


Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography

by Lawrence J. Quirk & William Schoell

" Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography explores the life and career of one of Hollywood's great dames. She was a leading film personality for more than fifty years, from her beginnings as a dancer in silent...


Elvis Memories: The real Elvis Presley - by those who knew him

by Michael Freedland

The man, the music, the mythology – everyone knows Elvis, right? From the swinging hips and tempestuous love life to the peanut butter and banana sandwiches. But how do the iconic snapshots and the snippets...


John Gilbert: The Last of the Silent Film Stars

by Eve Golden

Charming and classically handsome, John Gilbert (1897--1936) was among the world's most recognizable actors during the silent era. He was a wild, swashbuckling figure on screen and off, and accounts of his life...


William Desmond Taylor: A Dossier

by Bruce Long

By reprinting over 400 items from contemporary newspapers, magazines, and trade journals, this book reveals Taylor's life in Hollywood-from his arrival as a minor actor in 1912 until his death in 1922 as one...


Hopper

by Tom Folsom

James Dean to Hopper

"I saw what you did today. Today you were great."

Jack Nicholson to Hopper

"We're geniuses, you know that?

Isn't it great to be a genius?"

The chopper-riding hippie outlaw in Easy Rider. The...


Al Capp: A Life to the Contrary

by Denis Kitchen & Michael Schumacher

More than thirty years have passed since Al Capp's death, and he may no longer be a household name. But at the height of his career, his groundbreaking comic strip, Li'l Abner, reached ninety million readers....


The Soundtrack of My Life

by Clive Davis

In The Soundtrack of My Life, music legend Clive Davis recounts an extraordinary five-decade career in the music business, while also telling a remarkable personal story of triumphs, disappointments, and encounters...