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Acting Shakespeare by John Gielgud; John Miller
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Applause Bks.
From the London Sunday Telegraph: Acting Shakespeare is extraordinary. The tone of the voice is unmistakably Sir John's, the atmosphere congenial. We're in the company of our greatest actor, who holds in his hands the last links of a chain of tradition leading to Shakespeare himself ... this book is cru ...Show more
Evenings with Cary Grant - Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best by Nancy Nelson
Category: Biography | Series: Applause Bks.
Charming, 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 real and complicated man - surprisingly vulnerable, unabashedly romantic, often exacting perfectionist wh ...Show more
SENSE OF OCCASION by PRINCE HAROLD
Category: Biography | Series: Applause Bks.
In this fast-moving, candid, conversational, and entertaining memoir, Harold Prince, the most honored director/producer in the history of the American theater looks back over his seventy-year (and counting ) career. In 1974, Prince released his first book, Contradictions: Notes on Twenty-Six Years in th ...Show more
Shatner by Michael Seth Starr
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Applause Bks.
In the early months of 1966, a handsome, hardworking thirty-five-year-old Canadian-born actor named William Shatner was cast as Captain Kirk in Star Trek, a troubled, low-budget science-fiction television series set to premiere that fall on NBC. Star Trek struggled for viewers and lasted only three seas ...Show more
Stella Adler - The Art of Acting by ADLER STELLA
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Applause Bks.
Stella Adler was one of the 20th Century's greatest figures. She is arguably the most important teacher of acting in American history. Over her long career, both in New York and Hollywood, she offered her vast acting knowledge to generations of actors, including Marlon Brando, Warren Beatty, and Robert ...Show more
The Art of Horror - An Illustrated History by Stephen Jones (Editor)
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Applause Bks.
Amazingly, there has never been a book quite like The Art of Horror - a celebration of frightful images, compiled and presented by some of the genre's most respected names. While acknowledging the beginnings of horror-related art in legends and folk tales, the focus of the book is on how the genre has p ...Show more
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