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Dana Andrews (1909-1992) worked with distinguished directors such as John Ford, Lewis Milestone, Otto Preminger, Fritz Lang, William Wyler, William A. Wellman, Mervyn Le Roy, Jean Renoir, and Elia Kazan. He played romantic leads alongside the great beauties of the modern screen, including Joan Crawford,...

Walter Brennan (1894-1974) was one of the greatest character actors in Hollywood history. He won three Academy Awards and became a national icon starring as Grandpa in The Real McCoys. He appeared in over two hundred motion pictures and became the subject of a Norman Rockwell painting, which celebrated...

More than any other male movie star, the refined Clifton Webb (1889-1966) caused the movie-going public to change its image of a leading man. In a day when leading men were supposed to be strong, virile, and brave, Clifton Webb projected an image of flip, acerbic arrogance. He was able to play everything...

In this never-before-published memoir from the vaults of the Walt Disney Archives, Disney Legend Jimmy Johnson (1917-1976) takes you from his beginnings as a studio gofer during the days of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to the opening of Walt Disney World Resort. Johnson relates dozens of personal...

Janette Bertrand nous raconte l'histoire de sa vie avec toute la passion qu'on lui connaît. Elle sait si bien s'y prendre pour nous émouvoir, nous faire rire et nous étonner qu'on se croit soudain en train de lire un vrai roman.L'héroïne est une petite fille née à Montréal, en 1925, aux abords...

In March 2018 I discovered that a Facebook friend of mine was a call girl at an exclusive agency in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Our talks began with a simple compliment that I made about one of her Facebook posts. She was wearing skinny jeans with holes that young women are very fond of. I sent her...

Claudia Jennings was raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin before moving to Evanston, Illinois for her high school years. She joined a theater company in Chicago and while working as a receptionist at the Playboy Building she was asked to pose nude for Playboy Magazine. Her September 1969 centerfold was...

Michael Whitehall contrasts the glamorous image of theatrical life with the mundane realities of the business, while passing on some startling trade secrets along the way. A laconic raconteur of refreshingly unstar-struck theatrical anecdotes, Whitehall deftly sketches the social comedy of...

Miley Cyrus -- So You Think You Can Lap Dance? Is Miley Cyrus the New 'Britley Spearus'? Miley Cyrus voted worst celebrity influence of 2009 Miley Cyrus  felt more than the beat last summer as she got downright nasty on the dance floor with a slightly older gentleman during a wrap party...

Leni Riefenstahl will always be remembered for her brilliant film of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin - still rated as one of the best documentaries ever made. Before that she was acclaimed for her roles in silent feature films, when German cinema was in its artistic heyday in the 1920s. She pioneered...

Here for the first time is the complete, captivating story of an on-set romance that turned into a lifelong love story between silver screen legends Audrey Hepburn and William Holden. In 1954, Hepburn and Holden were America's sweethearts. Both won Oscars that year and together they filmed Sabrina,...

James Gandolfini: The Real Life of the Man Who Made Tony Soprano is the first biography of the actor who died, in June 2013 at age 51, widely recognized as one of the best—and most defining—actors of his generation. The book is informed by fresh interviews with Sopranos actors, the star's acting...

For the first time, in NO LAUGHING MATTER, Norman Hudis, who wrote the first six Carry On movies, reveals his hitherto secret, decades-long and quixotic writing-activity since he left the series. It's this: He Carried On Writing Carry On stories in the hope that, one day, he'd be asked to return and...

Lon Chaney, Jr. Edited by Gary J. Svehla and Susan Svehla The Wolf Man, The Mummy's Ghost, Man Made Monster, Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Weird Woman. You've seen the classic horror films, now dDelve into the pivotal films made throughout Lon...