Chicago and Other Plays

Literature & Fiction

Shepard, Sam.

Poetry

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Color Wizard of Oz photo 329pages approx 9x6

The Making of the Wizard of Oz: Movie Magic and Studio Power in the Prime of MGM--and the Miracle of Production#1060

Humor & Entertainment

Harmetz, Aljean

Baum., L. Frank

Movies

The distinguished actress discusses the working life of an actor, examines the discipline, psychology, and technique of the actor's craft, and offers perceptive observations on some well-known colleagues

The Bright Lights: A Theatre Life

SELDES, Marian

Jazz Is

(Limelight). "A beautifully written, evocative tribute to an elusive art... Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Teddy Wilson, Gerry Mulligan, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor, and Gato Barbieri." Performing Arts

Arts & Photography

Hentoff, Nat

Music

This new translation of the original texts of over 750 songs allows the reader to follow, line by line, the English directly opposite the German. “Will no doubt become the standard lieder-resource for the English-speaking world...” – Choice

The Fischer-Dieskau Book of Lieder: The Original Texts of Over Seven Hundred and Fifty Songs (Limelight)

The foremost singer-interpreter of Schubert's lieder analyzes the songs within the context of the composer's life and environment

Schubert's Songs: A Biographical Study

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Although they deal mainly with the Gielgud-Burton performance of Hamlet, these letters by an important cast member reveal much about general theater life

Letters from an Actor

Redfield, William

Biographies & Memoirs

John Lahr traces his father's career as a leading clown of the American theater against the tribulations of his personal life

Notes on a Cowardly Lion: The Biography of Bert Lahr

Lahr, John.

In 1937, Garson Kanin was called to Hollywood by Samuel Goldwyn to "learn the business." Twenty-four, fresh from New York, Kanin longed to become a movie director, but found himself frustrated at every turn by the mogul who had already forgotten why he had signed Kanin to a contract. When Kanin finally did direct a film (for another studio, starring John Barrymore) Goldwyn groused, "You dirty so and so, why didn't you ever tell me you wanted to direct?" Sam Goldwyn, with his famous Goldwynisms, his arrogance, his outrageous behavior, is the centerpiece of this book, symbolizing the mystique of Hollywood's glamorous, heady years, but Kanin, playwright, director, novelist and screenwriter, seemed to know nearly everyone and includes reminiscences and anecdotes about hundreds of the movie capital's famous people: the directors - Carl Laemmle, Billy Wilder, Rene Clair; the studio czars - Harry Cohn, Goldwyn and Darryl Zanuck; the glittering stars - Tracy and Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner; the writers; and even Hollywood's colorful, if unknown, bit players. Hilarious, audacious, poignant, scandalous, HOLLYWOOD is everything - and more than - its name implies. From his own adventures there Garson Kanin has drawn the material for a witty, wise, and dazzling panorama of the magical place it once was.

Hollywood

KANIN, Garson

The authors depict their humorous experiences while collaborating on musical comedy shows and dealing with actors, actresses, directors, and prod ucers.

Bring on the Girls!

Bolton, Guy

Wodehouse,P.G.

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