GREAT OLD MOVIES

HENRY BRANDON: KING OF THE BOGEYMEN  (BearManor Media; 2018). Bill Cassara and Richard S. Greene. This labor of love looks at the work of...

HAYWIRE.  Brooke Hayward. Originally published in 1977; updated 2011. Random House. Brooke Hayward is the daughter of actress Margaret ...

MIRIAM HOPKINS: LIFE AND FILMS OF A HOLLYWOOD REBEL . Allan R. Ellenberger. University Press of Kentucky; 2018. Miriam Hopkins is long ...

CHANGE LOBSTERS AND DANCE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY . Lilli Palmer. Macmillan; 1975. Apparently without a ghostwriter, Lilli Palmer [ Body and ...

DANCING ON THE CEILING: STANLEY DONEN AND HIS MOVIES . Stephen M. Silverman. Knopf; 1996. From Broadway chorus boy to choreographer to d...

SOME ENCHANTED EVENINGS: The Glittering Life and Times of MARY MARTIN . David Kaufman. St. Martin's; 2016. Mary Martin went to Holly...

PATRICIA NEAL: AN UNQUIET LIFE . Stephen Michael Shearer, University Press of Kentucky; 2006. This well-researched and well-written biog...

RODGERS AND HART: Bewitched, Bothered, and Bedeviled . Samuel Marx and Jan Clayton. Putman's; 1976. This duel biography looks at the...

THEN AND NOW: A Memoir . Barbara Cook with Tom Santopietro. HarperCollins; 2016.                                                          ...

GERTRUDE LAWRENCE . Sheridan Morley. McGraw-Hill; 1981. This entertaining biography, written by the son of Robert Morley, looks at the l...

AL PACINO IN FILMS AND ON STAGE  is your humble blog-owner's new tome on Al Pacino. This book from McFarland has been greatly expanded...