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Raised by the Stars by Nick Thomas
RRP: $46.62SciFier: $40.73This collection of interviews, all personally conducted by the author, focuses on the children of Hollywood legends. Each child (and in one case, grandchild) talks about the joys and difficulties of... -
Who the Hell's in It: Conversations with Hollywood's Legendary Actors Peter Bogdanovich 9780345480026
RRP: $50.88SciFier: $42.38Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345480026Author Peter BogdanovichFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher... -
A Star Is Born (Turner Classic Movies) by Jeffrey Vance
RRP: $53.00SciFier: $39.35A Star Is Born -- the classic Hollywood tale about a young talent rising to superstardom, and the downfall of her mentor/lover along the way -- has never gone out of style. It has seen five film... -
Bud Abbott Alone by Michael B Druxman
SciFier: $13.23Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798644848911Author Michael B DruxmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher... -
The Search for Sam Goldwyn by Carol Easton
SciFier: $69.94Sam Goldwyn's career spanned almost the entire history of Hollywood. He made his first film, The Squaw Man, in 1913, and he died in 1974 at the age of ninety-one. In the many years between, he... -
Marlene by Marlene Dietrich
RRP: $38.16SciFier: $28.39Film star. Cabaret sensation. Recording artist. Writer. Marlene Dietrich was nothing short of enchanting face=Calibri>- and remains so even today. In this book she chronicles her fabulous rise to... -
Evenings with Cary Grant by Nancy Nelson
SciFier: $44.50Charming witty effortlessly debonair and elegant Cary Grant was the ultimate leading man a silver screen icon who seemed to embody all that a movie star should be. But beneath the glamour was a... -
Marlene Dietrich by Marlene Dietrich
RRP: $84.80SciFier: $82.38Marlene Dietrich never threw away anything. She kept her good-luck rag doll (it appeared with her in The Blue Angel and followed her to dressing tables on every movie set). She kept the letters she... -
Jock Mahoney by Gene Freese
RRP: $46.62SciFier: $40.73This is the first biography of a Hollywood legend. Iowa-born Jock Mahoney was an elite athlete and U.S. Marines fighter pilot prior to falling into a film career. He is widely considered to be one of... -
Hank and Jim by Scott Eyman
SciFier: $27.54"[A] remarkably absorbing, supremely entertaining joint biography" (The New York Times) from bestselling author Scott Eyman about the remarkable friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart, two... -
Mean...Moody...Magnificent! by Christina Rice
SciFier: $59.23Jane Russell's acting career was launched on one of the most notorious publicity campaigns in the history of cinema for The Outlaw, a film produced and ultimately directed by Howard Hughes. Russell... -
Forever Mame by Bernard F. Dick
RRP: $56.18SciFier: $47.83When it comes to living life to its fullest, Rosalind Russell's character Auntie Mame is still the silver screen's exemplar. And Mame, the role Russell (1907-1976) will always be remembered for,... -
Ingrid Bergman by David Smit
RRP: $46.62SciFier: $40.73Smit studies the woman behind the public image as a natural, wholesome, even saintly person, an image carefully crafted by Bergman's first producer David O. Selznick. Bergman hid behind that image... -
Joan Blondell by Matthew Kennedy
RRP: $56.18SciFier: $34.66Joan Blondell: A Life between Takes is the first major biography of the effervescent, scene-stealing actress (1906-1979) who conquered motion pictures, vaudeville, Broadway, summer stock, television,... -
Children of Hollywood by Michelle Vogel
RRP: $46.62SciFier: $40.73Living in the shadow of a famous parent can have powerful effects, from professional opportunities to pressure so great it leads to suicide. Some children of stars are proud of their roots while... -
The First Movie Studio in Texas: Gaston Melies's Star Film Ranch Kathryn Fuller-Seeley 9781477333129
RRP: $76.32SciFier: $64.85The story of the Star Film Ranch and its pioneering crew, who created the first "authentic" Westerns filmed in Texas. In 1910, the MEliEs Star Film Company of Manhattan set up a moving-picture studio... -
Bette Davies: More Than A Woman by James Spada
RRP: $36.02SciFier: $25.95A biography of Bette Davis, revealing a life replete with scandal, sex, violence, courage, sacrifice and heartbreak. After three years of research and more than 150 interviews, James Spada has... -
Hollywood Madonna: Loretta Young Bernard F. Dick 9781496861603
RRP: $40.26SciFier: $34.66Loretta Young (1913-2000) was an Academy Award-winning actress known for devout Catholicism and her performances in The Farmer's Daughter, The Bishop's Wife, and Come to the Stable, and for her... -
Alice Faye: A Life Beyond the Silver Screen Jane Lenz Elder 9781604739794
SciFier: $43.44Alice Faye's sweet demeanor, sultry glances, and velvety voice were her signatures. Her haunting rendition of ""You'll Never Know"" has never been surpassed by any other singer. Fans adored her in... -
The Roots of Modern Hollywood by Nick Smedley
SciFier: $78.12In this insightful study of Hollywood cinema since 1969, film historian Nick Smedley traces the cultural and intellectual heritage of American films, showing how the more thoughtful recent cinema... -
She Could Be Chaplin! by Anthony Slide
RRP: $55.01SciFier: $37.95Alice Howell (1886-1961) is slowly gaining recognition and regard as arguably the most important slapstick comedienne of the silent era. This new study, the first book-length appreciation, identifies... -
JR by George Lucas
RRP: $74.09SciFier: $53.25An inspiration for those trying to create socially engaged art and make a difference in marginalized communities. - Smithsonian Magazine The most comprehensive monograph on the enigmatic French... -
Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman Dan Callahan 9781617031830
RRP: $84.69SciFier: $57.64Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) rose from the ranks of chorus girl to become one of Hollywood's most talented leading women-and America's highest paid woman in the mid-1940s. Shuttled among foster homes... -
Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman Dan Callahan 9781496843432
RRP: $44.41SciFier: $34.66Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) rose from the ranks of chorus girl to become one of Hollywood's most talented leading women-and America's highest-paid woman in the mid-1940s. Shuttled among foster homes... -
Jose Ferrer by Mike Peros
RRP: $61.37SciFier: $51.37Jose Ferrer (1912-1992) became the first Puerto Rican actor to win the Best Actor Academy Award for the 1950 film version of Cyrano de Bergerac.His portrayal of the lovelorn poet/swordsman had... -
Winnie Lightner: Tomboy of the Talkies David C. Lightner 9781496809834
RRP: $61.37SciFier: $51.37Winnie Lightner (1899-1971) stood out as the first great female comedian of the talkies. Blessed with a superb singing voice and a gift for making wisecracks and rubber faces, she rose to stardom in... -
The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics Sydney Ladensohn Stern 9781617032677
RRP: $105.89SciFier: $73.44Herman J. (1897-1953) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909-1993) wrote, produced, and directed over 150 pictures. With Orson Welles, Herman wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane and shared the picture's... -
Dan Duryea: Heel with a Heart Mike Peros 9781496830739
RRP: $48.74SciFier: $41.26Dan Duryea (1907-1968) made a vivid impression on moviegoers with his first major screen appearance as the conniving Leo Hubbard in 1941's classic melodrama The Little Foxes. His subsequent film and... -
I Tried to Change So You Don't Have To: True Life Lessons Loni Love 9780306873737
RRP: $29.66SciFier: $20.84An inspiring, hilarious memoir about learning to resist the pressures of conformity, love yourself for who you are, embrace your flaws, and unlock your true potential.Now cohost of Fox's The Real and... -
Dan Duryea: Heel with a Heart Mike Peros 9781628462326
RRP: $74.20SciFier: $49.59Dan Duryea (1907-1968) made a vivid impression on moviegoers with his first major screen appearance as the conniving Leo Hubbard in 1941's classic melodrama The Little Foxes. His subsequent film and... -
Zachary Scott: Hollywood's Sophisticated Cad Ronald L. Davis 9781617039072
RRP: $63.49SciFier: $41.26Throughout the 1940s, Zachary Scott (1914-1965) was the model for sophisticated, debonair villains in American film. His best-known roles include a mysterious criminal in The Mask of Dimitrios and... -
Gloria Swanson: Ready for Her Close-Up Tricia Welsch 9781617037498
RRP: $78.33SciFier: $50.96Gloria Swanson: Ready for Her Close-Up shows how a talented, self-confident actress negotiated a creative path through seven decades of celebrity. It also illuminates a little-known chapter in... -
The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics Sydney Ladensohn Stern 9781496840851
RRP: $50.77SciFier: $39.43Winner of the 2020 Peter C. Rollins Book AwardLonglisted for the 2020 Moving Image Book Award by the Kraszna-Krausz FoundationNamed a 2019 Richard Wall Memorial Award Finalist by the Theatre Library... -
The Essential James Garner by Stephen H. Ryan
SciFier: $86.90Since his television debut in the mid-1950s, James Garner entertained millions of fans on screens both big and small. From supporting roles in memorable films like Sayonara and The Notebook to... -
Mad Dreams and Monsters by Alexandre Poncet
RRP: $265.00SciFier: $183.06A spectacular and comprehensive authorized retrospective of Oscar-winning visual effects master Phil Tippett, founder and namesake of iconic Tippett Studio From Star Wars to Jurassic Park and... -
The Lost World of DeMille John Kobal 9781496825230
RRP: $84.69SciFier: $57.62As only an accomplished author, consummate collector, and savvy insider can, John Kobal tells the story of the man who invented Hollywood, Cecil Blount DeMille. Kobal narrates the story of DeMille's... -
Sitting Pretty by Clifton Webb
RRP: $44.41SciFier: $34.66More 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,... -
The Essential Humphrey Bogart by Constantine Santas
SciFier: $91.14Many film fans consider Humphrey Bogart the ultimate star of Hollywood's golden era. He rose from supporting roles in the early 1930s to become a superstar by the end of the decade. Bogart appeared... -
Madeline Kahn by William V. Madison
RRP: $44.41SciFier: $36.15Best known for her Oscar-nominated roles in the smash hits Paper Moon and Blazing Saddles, Madeline Kahn (1942-1999) was one of the most popular comedians of her time - and one of the least... -
Women I've Undressed by Orry-Kelly
RRP: $53.00SciFier: $41.91Orry-Kelly created magic on screen, from Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon to Some Like It Hot. He won three Oscars for costume design. He dressed all the biggest stars, from Bette Davis to Marilyn...