"Reynolds has been a Hollywood leading man for six decades, known for his legendary performances, sex-symbol status, and storied Hollywood romances. In his long career of stardom ... Reynolds has seen it all. [This book] will tell his story through the people he's encountered on his amazing journey. In his words, he plans to 'call out the assholes,' try to make amends for being the asshole myself on too many occasions, and pay homage to the many...

It's conventional wisdom that Hollywood has no use for a woman over forty. So it's a good thing that Diahann Carroll-whose winning, sometimes controversial career breached racial barriers-is anything but conventional. Here she shares her life story with an admirable candidness of someone who has seen and done it all. With wisdom that only aging gracefully can bestow, she talks frankly about her four marriages as well as the other significant relationships...

"Everyone knows Tom Cruise - or at least what he wants us to know. We know that he overcame a difficult childhood to star in an astonishing array of blockbusters: Top Gun, Rain Man, Born on the Fourth of July, A Few Good Men, Interview with the Vampire, Jerry Maguire, three Mission: Impossible movies, and War of the Worlds. We know he has taken artistic chances, too, and as a result has earned three Academy Award nominations and three Golden Globes,...

The year 1987 is the 60th anniversary of John Wayne's entry into film-making. And Pilar Wayne, his wife of twenty-five years, breaks her long silence about their life together in one of the most revealing star biographies ever written. In a loving portrait about their sometimes wonderful, sometimes stormy life together, Pilar Wayne sets the record straight about John Wayne, more than eight years after his death and in response to numerous others'...

The actress recalls the people, places, and events that have inspired her, from her loving relationships with her family members, to her early successes on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," to the spiritual side of her career

Explores the professional and personal life of motion picture actress Bette Davis.

Presents a comprehensive look into the film career of actor John Wayne and discusses his movie roles and relationship to director John Ford, the reasons why he did not enlist during World War Two, his marriages, and two desperate battles with cancer.

In this book, Simon Louvish traces the early lives of Stanley Jefferson and Norvell Hardy and the surrounding minstrel and variety theater, which influenced all of their later work. Louvish examines the rarely seen solo films of both our heroes, prior to their serendipitous pairing in 1927, in the long-lost short Duck Soup. The inspired casting teamed them until their last days. Both often married, they found balancing their personal and professional...

What we couldn't know--have never been told before--Gavin Lambert preceptively uncovers. His book provides the richest portrait we have had of Natalie Wood.

"Henry Fonda's performances--in The Grapes of Wrath, Young Mr. Lincoln, The Lady Eve, 12 Angry Men, On Golden Pond--helped define "American" in the twentieth century. He worked with movie masters from Ford and Sturges to Hitchcock and Leone. He was a Broadway legend. He fought in World War II and was loved the world over. Yet much of his life was rage and struggle. Why did Fonda marry five times--tempestuously to actress Margaret Sullavan, tragically...