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Hide books by the same authorThings I Overheard While Talking to Myself
Alan Alda · 247 pages
On the heels of his acclaimed memoir, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed, beloved actor and bestselling author Alan Alda has written Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself, an insightful and funny look at some of the impossible questions he's asked himself over the years: What do I value? What, exactly, is the good life? (And what does that even mean?)Picking up where his bestselling memoir left off-
In the Frame
Helen Mirren · 272 pages
This beautifully illustrated book contains some of Helen's private photographs, recording professional encounters with, among others, Michael Gambon, Liam Neeson, Peter Hall, Linda La Plante and Julie Walters. This is the personal album of a woman who is, in the words of the Sunday Times, 'a British institution'.
Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
Alan Rickman · 469 pages
My Happy Days in Hollywood: A Memoir
Garry Marshall · 276 pages
A lighthearted account by the producer and director of such productions as "Laverne & Shirley" and "Pretty Woman" traces his Bronx childhood, role in shaping A-list celebrity careers, and personal philosophies about life and entertainment.
I Am Not Spock
Leonard Nimoy · 135 pages
Are You Anybody?: A Memoir
Jeffrey Tambor · 304 pages
Dancing on My Grave
Gelsey Kirkland, Greg Lawrence · 363 pages
My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor
Alec Guinness · 224 pages
Over the last few years Sir Alec Guinness has been keeping a diary, small portions of which have been appearing in the "Spectator". The diary is the basis of this book, though Guinness has taken the opportunity to go back and expand and revise his entries.
The Fry Chronicles
Stephen Fry · 448 pages
The popular actor, comedian, and writer traces his unlikely Cambridge education, his relationships with such contemporaries as Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson, and his hedonistic rise to stardom.
Gypsy: Memoirs of America's Most Celebrated Stripper
Gypsy Rose Lee · 350 pages
The memoir, which Gypsy began as a series of pieces for The New Yorker, contains photographs and newspaper clippings from her personal scrapbooks and an afterword by her son, Erik Lee Preminger. At turns touching and hilarious, Gypsy describes her childhood trouping across 1920s America through her rise to stardom as The Queen of Burlesque in 1930s New York—where gin came in bathtubs, gangsters we
Drama: An Actor's Education
John Lithgow · 320 pages
Sharing a backstage history of his early life and career--and paying tribute to his father, Arthur Lithgow--the author reveals why actors are driven to perform, and why people are driven to watch them do it.
Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son
Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Hope Edelman · 428 pages
In this remarkable dual memoir, film legend Martin Sheen and accomplished actor/filmmaker Emilio Estevez recount their lives as father and son. In alternating chapters -- and in voices that are as eloquent as they are different -- they tell stories spanning more than fifty years of family history, and reflect on their journeys into two different kinds of faith.
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
Steve Martin · 216 pages
The author shares the stories of his years in stand-up comedy in a humorous memoir that recalls a first job selling guidebooks at Disneyland, his early magic and comedy act, his years of honing his craft, and the sacrifice, discipline, and originality it took to take him to the top.
Tippi: A Memoir
Tippi Hedren · 275 pages
"In this absorbing and surprising memoir, one of the biggest names of classic Hollywood—the star of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds and Marnie—tells her story, including never-before-revealed experiences on the set of some of the biggest cult films of all time,"--Amazon.com. For decades, Tippi Hedren's luminous beauty enchanted moviegoers and cemented her among Hollywood's elite. From Alfred Hitchco
So That Happened: My Unexpected Life in Hollywood
Jon Cryer · 337 pages
Wishful Drinking
Carrie Fisher · 163 pages
Fisher comes clean (well, sort of) with the crazy truth that is her life, in her first-ever memoir.
Anything Goes
John Barrowman, Carole E. Barrowman · 256 pages
From his Glaswegian childhood and American adolescence to his starring role in the Doctor Who spinoff Torchwood, this memoir traces the life and career of actor John Barrowman. John made a name for himself with remarkable West End achievements, including an Olivier Award nomination and success in the movies The Producers and De-Lovely. Television success was also assured when Torchwood won a Best
The Garner Files: A Memoir
James Garner, Jon Winokur
After suffering physical abuse at the hands of his stepmother, Garner left home at fourteen. He became Oklahoma's first draftee of the Korean War and was awarded with two Purple Hearts before returning to the United States and settling in Los Angeles to become an actor. Working alongside some of the most renowned celebrities, including Julie Andrews, Marlon Brando, and Clint Eastwood, Garner becam
I Blame Dennis Hopper: And Other Stories from a Life Lived In and Out of the Movies
Illeana Douglas
"In 1969, Illeana Douglas' parents saw the film Easy Rider. Like many folks of that generation, the groundbreaking film transformed them. Taking Dennis Hopper's words, "That's what it's all about man", to heart, they abandoned what Illeana had hoped would be her comfortable upper middle class life for a childhood filled with hippies, goats, free spirits, and free love. Illeana writes, "Since it wa
Pieces of My Heart: A Life
Robert J. Wagner, Scott Eyman · 393 pages
In this moving memoir, Robert J. Wagner opens his heart to share the romances, the drama, and the humor of an incredible lifeHe grew up in Bel Air next door to a golf course that changed his life. As a young boy, he saw a foursome playing one morning featuring none other than Fred Astaire, Clark Gable, Randolph Scott, and Cary Grant. Seeing these giants of the silver screen awed him and fueled his
Doris Day: Her Own Story
A.E. Hotchner, Doris Day · 369 pages
The events of the popular, thrice-married, blonde singer-actress's life, as told to Hotchner, are given a wider frame through candid interviews with her son, mother, friends, and co-stars.