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  • The Woman Who Dared

    The Life and Times of Pearl White, Queen of the Serials

    par William M. Drew ...
    Collections series Screen Classics
    In the early days of motion pictures—before superstars, before studio conglomerates, before even the advent of sound—there was a woman named Pearl White (1889–1938). A quintessential beauty of the time, with her perfectly tousled bob and come-hither stare, White's rise to stardom was swift; her assumption of the title of queen of American motion picture serials equally deserved.Born the youngest ... En savoir plus

    $54.99 CAD

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  • High Society

    The Life of Grace Kelly

    par Donald Spoto ...
    Drawing on his unprecedented access to Grace Kelly, bestselling biographer Donald Spoto at last offers an intimate, honest, and authoritative portrait of one of Hollywood’s legendary actresses.In just seven years–from 1950 through 1956–Grace Kelly embarked on a whirlwind career that included roles in eleven movies. From the principled Amy Fowler Kane in High Noon to the thrill-seeking Frances ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Possessed

    The Life of Joan Crawford

    par Donald Spoto ...
    Joan Crawford was one of the most incandescent film stars of all time, yet she was also one of the most misunderstood. In this brilliantlyresearched, thoughtful, and intimate biography, bestselling author Donald Spoto goes beyond the popular caricature—the abusive, unstable mother portrayed in her adopted daughter Christina Crawford's memoir, Mommie Dearest—to give us a three-dimensional portrait ... En savoir plus

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  • You Must Remember This

    Life and Style in Hollywood's Golden Age

    A New York Times bestseller and a “charming tribute” (Kirkus) to Hollywood’s most beloved eraFilm and television star Robert Wagner has been delighting audiences for more than sixty years, and his many fans flocked to bookstores when he began to record his memories on the page. In his second New York Times bestseller, Wagner shares stories of Hollywood life behind the scenes from the 1930s through ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Mirage Factory

    Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles

    par Gary Krist ...
    From bestselling author Gary Krist, the story of the metropolis that never should have been and the visionaries who dreamed it into realityLittle more than a century ago, the southern coast of California—bone-dry, harbor-less, isolated by deserts and mountain ranges—seemed destined to remain scrappy farmland. Then, as if overnight, one of the world’s iconic cities emerged. At the heart of Los ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Tramp

    The Life of Charlie Chaplin

    par Joyce Milton ...
    Charlie Chaplin made an amazing seventy-one films by the time he was only thirty-three years old. He was known not only as the world's first international movie star, but as a comedian, a film director, and a man ripe with scandal, accused of plagiarism, communism, pacifism, liberalism, and anti-Americanism. He seduced young women, marrying four different times, each time to a woman younger than ... En savoir plus

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  • Lion of Hollywood

    The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer

    par Scott Eyman ...
    Lion of Hollywood is the definitive biography of Louis B. Mayer, the chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer—MGM—the biggest and most successful film studio of Hollywood’s Golden Age.An immigrant from tsarist Russia, Mayer began in the film business as an exhibitor but soon migrated to where the action and the power were—Hollywood. Through sheer force of energy and foresight, he turned his own modest studio ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • A Life of Barbara Stanwyck

    Steel-True 1907-1940

    par Victoria Wilson ...
    “860 glittering pages” (Janet Maslin, The New York Times): The first volume of the full-scale astonishing life of one of our greatest screen actresses—her work, her world, her Hollywood through an American century.Frank Capra called her, “The greatest emotional actress the screen has yet known.” Now Victoria Wilson gives us the first volume of the rich, complex life of Barbara Stanwyck, an actress ... En savoir plus

    $44.99 CAD

  • Bing Crosby

    A Pocketful of Dreams - The Early Years 1903 - 1940

    par Gary Giddins ...
    From Bing Crosby's early days in college minstrel shows and vaudeville, to his first hit recordings, from his 11 year triumph as star of America's most popular radio show, to his first success in Hollywood, Gary Giddins provides a detailed study of the rise of this American star. ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Silent Movies

    The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture

    par Peter Kobel ...
    Drawing on the extraordinary collection of The Library of Congress, one of the greatest repositories for silent film and memorabilia, Peter Kobel has created the definitive visual history of silent film. From its birth in the 1890s, with the earliest narrative shorts, through the brilliant full-length features of the 1920s, Silent Movies captures the greatest directors and actors and their ... En savoir plus

    $26.39 CAD

  • The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression

    Shirley Temple and 1930s America

    par John F. Kasson ...
    "[An] elucidating cultural history of Hollywood’s most popular child star…a must-read." —Bill Desowitz, USA TodayFor four consecutive years she was the world’s box-office champion. With her image appearing in periodicals and advertisements roughly twenty times daily, she rivaled FDR and Edward VIII as the most photographed person in the world. Her portrait brightened the homes of countless ... En savoir plus

    $13.69 CAD

  • Moving Pictures

    Memories of a Hollywood Prince

    par Budd Schulberg ...
    The Oscar-winning screenwriter of On the Waterfront recounts his life, his career, and "how Hollywood became the dream factory it still is today" ( Kirkus Reviews).When Seymour Wilson "Budd" Schulberg moved from New York to Los Angeles as a child, Hollywood's filmmaking industry was just getting started. To some, the region was still more famous for its citrus farms than its movie studios. In this ... En savoir plus

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