Individual Actors & Performers

*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES & NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*'A real gem of a book for comedy fans... honest, irreverent and fascinating' Matt Lucas'B...

This visual salute to the First Lady of Television spans Betty Whites more than 80-year career as a performer and star of such legendary series as ...

Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and NPR In this genre-defying new kind of history (The New Yorker), the chief film ...

Charley Chase began his film career in early 1913 working as a comedian, writer, and director at the Al Christie studios under his real name, Charl...

For five decades, as a singer, musician, songwriter, and producer, Tim OBrien has ceaselessly explored the vast American musical landscape. While A...

In the 1970s and ''80s, Burt Reynolds represented a new breed of movie star: Charming and relentlessly macho, he was a good ol'' Southern boy who m...

Paul Robeson was a towering figure in American culture, conquering many disparate venuesfrom football and film to law to Shakespeare. An extraordin...

'As brutal, withering and funny as you'd expect' Julian Clary'A rollicking read, packed with wit and old-school glamour' Sunday Telegraph'Fabulousl...

Judy Garland was an entertainment icon whose performances on stage, screen and television had a tremendous impact across decades and media. This...

In a career that spanned over seven decades, Roger Moore was at the very heart of the show-business scene. We all knew him as an actor who starred ...

This edited volume provides new readings of the life and career of iconic actress Vivien Leigh (191367). Written by experts in theatre and film stu...

A cinematic and vibrant coming-of-age memoir, Chasing the Panther captures the thrilling and, at times, heartbreaking early years of Carolyn Pfeiff...

The image of Jordan in her white shards of beehive and Mondrian make-up is one of the most iconic in pop history. But nobody knows what was really ...

Dudley Riggs didnt have to run away from home to join the circus. Home was the circus. Son of the acclaimed aerial flyers Riggs and Riggs, he made ...

Charlie Chaplin once said, Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long shot.Chaplin released the first of his four autobiographie...

Lena Dunham, acclaimed writer-director-star of HBO and Sky Atlantic's 'Girls' and the award-winning movie 'Tiny Furniture', displays her unique pow...