Gypsy: Memoirs of America's Most Celebrated Stripper

Lady Parts

Andrea Martin · 352 pages

Lucky Me: My Life With--and Without--My Mom, Shirley MacLaine

Sachi Parker · 352 pages

Shirley MacLaine's only child shares shocking stories from her out-of-this-world childhood with the famously eccentric and award-winning actress.

Diary of a Stage Mother's Daughter: a Memoir

Melissa Francis · 294 pages

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.

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.

Life Is Not a Stage: From Broadway Baby to a Lovely Lady and Beyond

Florence Henderson · 304 pages

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.

Bossypants

Tina Fey · 277 pages

Tina Fey’s new book *Bossypants* is short, messy, and impossibly funny (an apt description of the comedian herself). From her humble roots growing up in Pennsylvania to her days doing amateur improv in Chicago to her early sketches on Saturday Night Live, Fey gives us a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of modern comedy with equal doses of wit, candor, and self-deprecation. Some of the funnie

Memoirs

Tennessee Williams · 268 pages

Long self-identified as a gay man, America's greatest playwright Williams' candour in his book about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself. Here, more than thirty years later, Williams' look back at his life is not quite so scandalous as it once seemed.

David Jason: My Life

David Jason · 400 pages

And Furthermore

Judi Dench · 294 pages

From the moment Judi Dench appeared as a teenager in the York Mystery Plays it was clear that acting would be her career. Trained at London's Central School of Speech and Drama it was her performance in her twenties as Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's memorable Old Vic production that turned her into a star. But it is her role as 'M' in six James Bond films beginning with GOLDENEYE in 1995 that has g

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

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.

Mommie Dearest

Christina Crawford · 294 pages

Mommie Dearest (1981) Based on the book about Joan Crawford, one of the great Hollywood actresses of our time, written by her adopted daughter Christina Crawford. Joan decides to adopt children of her own to fill a void in her life. Yet, her problems with alcohol, men, and the pressures of show business get in the way of her personal life, turning her into a mentally abusive wreck seen through

And Then One Day: A Memoir

Naseeruddin Shah · 328 pages

Autobiography of an Indian motion picture actor.

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'.

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.

Things 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-

Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

Alan Rickman · 469 pages

Are You Anybody?: A Memoir

Jeffrey Tambor · 304 pages

Cher: The Memoir, Part One

Cher

"After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her true story in intimate detail, in a two-part memoir. Her remarkable career is unique and unparalleled. The only woman to top Billboard charts in seven consecutive decades, she is the winner of an Academy Award, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Cannes Film Festival Award, and an inductee to the Rock and R

Handbook for an Unpredictable Life: How I Survived Sister Renata and My Crazy Mother, and Still Came Out Smiling...

Rosie Perez · 329 pages

The Oscar-nominated actress shares the previously untold story about her disadvantaged childhood and her successes in and out of the Hollywood limelight, tracing her relationship with the schizophrenic mother who relinquished her to a Catholic orphanage, the abuse she suffered in a series of homes and the fierce sense of independence that inspired her career.

Underfoot in Show Business

Helene Hanff · 177 pages

Helene Hanff's witty memoir of her adventures and misadventures as an aspiring playwright in New York City, 1940s-1960s.