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Come to Dazzle: Sarah Bernhardt's Australian Tour
The Divine Sarah, recognised as the world's greatest actress, is at the centre of this book, but the story it tells is much wider. Corille Fraser's lively writing and her...
A Portrait of the Artist as Australian: L'Oeuvre bizarre de Barry
Offers the first critical assessment of Barry Humphries' entire career Details Humphries as a daring post-modern deconstructionist on stage, film, and television and as an author of twenty-nine books A...
Grace Kelly Style
Synonymous with cool elegance and impeccable good taste, Grace Kelly remains a style icon of the twentieth century. This book is the first to explore exclusively Grace Kelly's personal style...
Stanislavski And The Actor: The Final Acting Lessons, 1935-38
Stanislavski and the Actor offers a clear, modern presentation of Konstantin Stanislavski's methods of actor training and rehearsal. It is based on the course Stanislavski designed and taught with a...
Stanislavski: An Introduction
'A small jewel of a book, a knowleageable introduction to both Stanislavski's personal development and to the content and range of his writings' Theatre Journal '...shows the System to be...
Lords and Larrikins: The actor's role in the making of Australia: The
This radical new account reveals the central importance of the male performer in Australian public life, showing how the aspiring middle classes turned to actors to teach them public behaviour...
The Cambridge Companion to the Actress
This Companion brings together sixteen new essays which examine, from various perspectives, the social and cultural role of the actress throughout history and across continents. Each essay focuses on a...
Shooting the Actor: Or the Choreography of Confusion
Keep Coolidge and Carry On: The Wisdom of Jennifer Coolidge
Whether your boss has just fired you through a bathroom door or you need a reminder that hot people aren't that interesting, there's no better guide than Jennifer Coolidge. The...
Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son
In this remarkable dual memoir about family, faith, and friendship, film legend Martin Sheen and his son Emilio Estevez share their stories. Spanning nearly 50 years of family history, the...
Sunshine and Laughter: The Story of Morecambe & Wise
The unique story of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise - British television's most iconic double act. 'A warm and sympathetic portrait of two pals who conquered the world simply by...
Racing Against Time: The Actor's Handbook for Working in Film and
How do actors find their marks without looking? What is a BCU, a CU, an MCU and a 'cowboy'? Where do you find your pick-up time on the call sheet,...
Stanislavski: The Basics
Stanislavski: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the life, thought and impact of Konstantin Stanislavski.
Yevgeny Vakhtangov: A Critical Portrait
Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and the work of one of the...
Tadeusz Kantor
Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and the work of one of the...
Mrs Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future
At the end of the 18th century Dora Jordan was the greatest comic actress the British theatre had known, adored by the public and high society alike. She became the...
Transcendence: 50 Years of Unforgettable Moments at the Sydney Opera
A singer overwhelmed by his crowd. A dancer on ice above sea. A teenage girl, later to become a virtuoso conductor, jolted by the sound of a symphony. Two filmmakers...
Will: The Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography
The 'Event' Autobiography of the Year now out in paperback - a brave, inspiring and wildly entertaining memoir full of self-help lessons for readers, from one of the world's most...
Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics
A beautifully-illustrated celebration of the remarkable life and career of country music legend Dolly Parton. 'A goldmine of little-seen photos and personal anecdotes' - Washington Post *The New York Times...
Cary Grant: Dark Angel
Grant was five times married, to a succession of beautiful women, including the heiress Barbara Hutton and the actress Dyan Cannon, and sustained a tortured relationship with money.
So Far, So Good
This is the autobiography of Paul Eddington. His career has ranged from stage roles in Ayckbourn, Frayn and Pinter to television roles in the comedy series "The Good Life", "Yes,...
Shooting Martha
'A riotously good novel, witty and earnest, brimming with sharply drawn characters and creeping suspense. David Thewlis is a fabulous writer' ANNA BAILEY, SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF TALL BONES...
Dannii: My Story
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Dannii Minogue first appeared on television aged seven. She signed her first record deal at the age of seventeen and ever since she has been wowing audiences around the world...
My First Five Husbands...And the Ones Who Got Away: A Memoir
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Rue McClanahan, best known for her portrayal of Blanche Devereaux on the Emmy-award winning series The Golden Girls reveals her life in and out of the spotlight in a laugh-out-loud...
Wildflower
Award-winning actress Drew Barrymore shares funny, insightful, and profound stories from her past and present told from the place of happiness she's achieved today. 'We all have stories to tell....
Dirk Bogarde: Rank Outsider
Morley is the author of numerous biographies, including the first of Noel Coward, of David Niven and of James Mason, as well as lives of his grandmother Gladys Cooper, Oscar...
Mr Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers
A new and authoritative biography of the great Peter Sellers, one of cinema's greatest comedians.The world loved Sellers' characters - from the Goons to Being There's Chaunce the Gardener via...
The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe
Drawn from rigorous research, this true crime title tells the story of Marilyn Monroe's extraordinary life and explores the shocking circumstances of her death. BORN IN THE SHADOWS. LIVED FOR...
Odd Boy Out
The long-awaited autobiography from the man who's been at the heart of the entertainment establishment for 50 years In Odd Boy Out Gyles Brandreth provides an extraordinarily revealing account of...
Jane Fonda's War: A Political Biography of an Antiwar Icon
As the recent presidential campaign revealed, the Vietnam War remains a political lightning rod. In the 1980s, even as a Gallup poll listed Fonda as one of the most admired...
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality
'The book is great: moving but also properly funny.' Hadley Freeman, The Guardian 'A memoir with an unusual sense of purpose. . . pithy, highly readable' The Times The entire...
Bring on the Empty Horses
Here is Niven at his best. He and Errol Flynn were filming The Charge of the Light Brigade for a director, Michael Curtiz, 'whose Hungarian-orientated English was a joy to...
Funny Man: Mel Brooks
A deeply textured and compelling biography of comedy giant Mel Brooks, covering his rags-to-riches life and triumphant career in television, films, and theater, from Patrick McGilligan, the acclaimed author of...
This Time Next Year: A Life Of Positive Thinking
The inspiring and entertaining memoir from national treasure and star of Only Fools and Horses, Sir David Jason Sir David Jason's career, from the outside, might seem like one glorious...
Not Dead Yet: The Autobiography
The long-awaited autobiography from Phil Collins, one of the bestselling music artists of all time. This is the rollercoaster journey from his beginnings as a child actor to his domination...
And It's Goodnight from Him . . .: The Autobiography of the Two
We were trying to create more than a show. We were trying to create an event, and that event was a moment for the whole family, to sit and relax...
The Book of Ryan: A Celebration of Ryan Gosling
Ryan Gosling is so much more than a Hollywood heartthrob... With unforgettable performances in critically acclaimed films such as Barbie , La La Land , Drive and The Notebook ,...
Straight Up: My Autobiography
In a notoriously difficult industry, Danny Dyer has carved out a niche that has seen him become one of the most recognisable, distinctive and popular actors of his generation. But...
The Time of My Life
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In a career spanning more than thirty years, Patrick Swayze has made a name for himself on the stage, the screen, and television. Known for his versatility, passion and fearlessness,...
Mommywood
Her life memoir sTORI telling revealed the funny, down-to-earth personality that continues to delight old and new fans. But Tori's got more to say - and stories to share -...
Shades of Jamie Dornan
INCLUDES EIGHT PAGES OF COLOUR PHOTOS. Jamie Dornan is becoming a megastar. His announcement as lead role Christian Grey in the film adaptation of FIFTY SHADES OF GREY caused a...
Final Curtain: Deaths of Noted Movie and TV Personalities
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This work contains over 4200 names of deceased movie and television personalities, listed chronologically by year of death and alphabetically by name. Many listings include cause of death, the star's...
The Essential Marilyn Monroe: Milton H. Greene: 50 Sessions
Milton H. Greene (1922-1985), famous for his fashion photography and celebrity portraits from the golden age of Hollywood, met Marilyn Monroe on a photo shoot for Look magazine in 1953....
That's Another Story: The Autobiography
Julie Walters has been described as the nation's most popular actress and comedienne. She has been delighting us on screen and on stage for over 25 years and we have...
Billie Whitelaw...Who He?
This autobiography tells the story of an uneducated girl from wartime Coventry, who, without ever really wanting to become an actress, became one of Laurence Olivier's leading ladies and the...
Just Julie
For twenty-five years, Julie Goodyear became part of everyone's family when she played Bet Lynch, the loveable brassy barmaid of the Rovers Return in `Coronation Street'. Now, at sixty-four (the...
A Good Bad Boy: Luke Perry and How a Generation Grew Up
An artful and contemplative tribute to the late actor famed for his role as Dylan McKay in Beverly Hills, 90210 . Luke Perry was fifty-two years old when he died...