Individual actors & performers books

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Did I Ever Tell You This?: A Memoir

Did I Ever Tell You This?: A Memoir

Author: Sam Neill
ISBN: 9781922790859
Format: Paperback
$36.99

In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of...  Read More >>

Rebel Rising: the highly anticipated autobiography of the Australian star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids, one of the best new books of 2024

Rebel Rising: the highly anticipated autobiography of...

Author: Rebel Wilson
ISBN: 9781460765937
Format: Hardback
$49.99

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Marlon Brando: Hollywood Rebel

Marlon Brando: Hollywood Rebel

Author: Burt Kearns
ISBN: 9781493072507
Format: Hardback
$59.99

A revelatory biography of Brando that tells its story the same way the man himself approached a role: from the inside...  Read More >>

Mabel Normand: The Life and Career of a Hollywood Madcap

Mabel Normand: The Life and Career of a Hollywood Madcap...

Author: Timothy Dean Lefler
ISBN: 9781476687582
Format: Paperback
$68.20

American silent film actress Mabel Normand (1892-1930) appeared in a string of popular movies opposite stars like...  Read More >>

Charlotte Cushman: A Biography and Performance History

Charlotte Cushman: A Biography and Performance History...

Author: Arthur W. Bloom
ISBN: 9781476690872
Format: Paperback
$84.70

The first book-length biography of Charlotte Cushman, one of the great actors of 19th century American theatre,...  Read More >>

Dan Levenson: Old-Time Banjo and Fiddle Teacher, Performer and Storyteller

Dan Levenson: Old-Time Banjo and Fiddle Teacher, Performer...

Author: Lewis M. Stern ,  David Brooks
ISBN: 9781476683515
Format: Paperback
$68.20

A biography of Dan Levenson, an old-time banjo and fiddle player from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Between 1987 and...  Read More >>

Eleanor Robson Belmont: A Theatrical Life

Eleanor Robson Belmont: A Theatrical Life

Author: Kevin Lane Dearinger
ISBN: 9781476692296
Format: Paperback
$84.70

Despite the brevity of her career, Eleanor Robson stands as a prototype for many actresses who followed her--women...  Read More >>

Conrad Veidt, Demon of the Silver Screen: His Life and Works in Context

Conrad Veidt, Demon of the Silver Screen: His Life and...

Author: Sabine Schwientek
ISBN: 9781476690810
Format: Paperback
$84.70

Depicts the life of Conrad Veidt (1893-1943), the defining German actor of Expressionist cinema in the 1920s. Along...  Read More >>

Theda Bara: Her Career, Life and Legend

Theda Bara: Her Career, Life and Legend

Author: Roy Liebman
ISBN: 9781476687254
Format: Paperback
$68.20

Although a major star in the 1910s, Theda Bara - known as ‘The Vamp’ - was largely neglected until the 1990s, when...  Read More >>

Dancing the Afrofuture: Hula, Hip-Hop, and the Dunham Legacy

Dancing the Afrofuture: Hula, Hip-Hop, and the Dunham...

Author: Halifu Osumare
ISBN: 9780813069876
Format: Paperback
$92.40

A Black dancer chronicles her career as ascholar writing the stories of global hip-hop and Black culture is the...  Read More >>

Dancing the Afrofuture: Hula, Hip-Hop, and the Dunham Legacy

Dancing the Afrofuture: Hula, Hip-Hop, and the Dunham...

Author: Halifu Osumare
ISBN: 9780813080345
Format: Hardback
$237.60

A Black dancer chronicles her career as ascholar writing the stories of global hip-hop and Black culture is the...  Read More >>

Roots and Wings: Virginia Tanner's Dance Life and Legacy

Roots and Wings: Virginia Tanner's Dance Life and Legacy...

Author: Mary-Elizabeth Manley ,  Mary Ann Lee
ISBN: 9781647690298
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Recounts Virginia Tanner's remarkable career as a dance artist, educator, and founder of the University of Utah's...  Read More >>

Filmmaker's Journey

Filmmaker's Journey

Author: Severo Perez ,  Luis Valdez
ISBN: 9781648431791
Format: Hardback
$84.48

Born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1941, acclaimed filmmaker Severo Perez moved to Los Angeles in 1972 to pursue a career...  Read More >>

Albert Brooks: Interviews

Albert Brooks: Interviews

Author: Alexander Greenhough
ISBN: 9781496849977
Format: Hardback
$185.90

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Audrey Hepburn in Paris

Audrey Hepburn in Paris

Author: Meghan Friedlander ,  Luca Dotti
ISBN: 9780063135529
Format: Hardback
$59.99

Introduction by Luca Dotti and Foreword by Giambattista Valli A gorgeous, sophisticated celebration of Audrey Hepburn’s...  Read More >>

Monkee Business: The Revolutionary Made-For-TV Band

Monkee Business: The Revolutionary Made-For-TV Band...

Author: Eric Lefcowitz ,  Stephanie Thompson
ISBN: 9780943249001
Format: Paperback
$51.90

The Monkees had everything--a popular TV show, hit records, and adoring fans. Everything but control over their...  Read More >>

Rebel Rising: the highly anticipated autobiography of the Australian star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids, one of the best new books of 2024

Rebel Rising: the highly anticipated autobiography of...

Author: Rebel Wilson
ISBN: 9781460767115
Format: Hardback
$49.99

From the scene-stealing star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids comes a refreshingly candid, hilarious and inspiring...  Read More >>

Peerless: Rouben Mamoulian, Hollywood, and Broadway

Peerless: Rouben Mamoulian, Hollywood, and Broadway...

Author: Kurt Jensen
ISBN: 9780299348205
Format: Hardback
$92.27

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Cocktails with George and Martha: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, and the making of 'Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'

Cocktails with George and Martha: Richard Burton, Elizabeth...

Author: Philip Gefter
ISBN: 9781804186756
Format: Hardback
$64.69

The play transpires over one long, boozy night, laying bare the lies, compromises, and scalding love that have sustained...  Read More >>

A Life Worth Living: Acting, Activism and Everything Else

A Life Worth Living: Acting, Activism and Everything...

Author: Tommy Jessop
ISBN: 9781035403738
Format: Paperback
$26.99

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In My Own Process

In My Own Process

Author: Bruce Lee ,  Shannon Lee
ISBN: 9781905662876
Format: Hardback
$89.99

‘Many of you know that I am a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, and, by daily actualizing my potentiality...  Read More >>

I’m Not a Film Star: David Bowie as Actor

I’m Not a Film Star: David Bowie as Actor

Author: Ian Dixon (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) ,  Brendan Black (Independent scholar, Australia)
ISBN: 9781501370489
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The first collection dedicated to David Bowie's acting career shows that his film characterisations and performance...  Read More >>

Following the Score: The Ravel Trilogy

Following the Score: The Ravel Trilogy

Author: Michael Pinchbeck (University of Lincoln) ,  Ollie Smith
ISBN: 9781789389333
Format: Hardback
$223.95

This book is a critical frame for a body of devised work that toured extensively nationally and internationally,...  Read More >>

Renegade at Heart: An Autobiography

Renegade at Heart: An Autobiography

Author: Lorenzo Lamas ,  Jeff Lenburg
ISBN: 9781637745946
Format: Paperback
$50.00

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Albert Brooks: Interviews

Albert Brooks: Interviews

Author: Alexander Greenhough
ISBN: 9781496849984
Format: Paperback
$42.90

Brings together fourteen profiles of and conversations with Albert Brooks, in which he contemplates, expounds upon,...  Read More >>

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