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New York: Harper & Row, 1988. Introduction by Elizabeth Taylor. Here is the completely candid and intimate portrait of Richard Burton by the brother who knew him best. Filled with revealing anecdotes plus many previously unpublished photographs from family collections. Photo illustrated price intact jacket.. 1st Us Edition Stated. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1986. Copyright by Rock Hudson Aids Research Foundation. Rock Hudson has written "I've always been a private person. I've never wanted to write a book, I've never let my house be photographed and I've never let the public know what I really think. Now that's changed - there's a lot I want to say and not too much time left. I want the truth to be told, because it sure as hell hasn't been told before. So Iv'e asked those who know me best - my real friends - to work with Sara Davidson in telling my story". Illustrated with b/w photos. Photographic dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York,: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1979. This is Sophia, telling you not just what she wants you to know, but everthing - turning herself inside out and filling the pages with the pain, sorrow, joys, wisdoms, frustrations, and dreams which have constituted her life. There are 40 pages of photographs and filmography. Blue boards - lighter blue cloth spine with blue title print. Bookplate to fep, name to prelim. Jacket photograph by Albert Watson. Top and fore edge of book shows some light brown spotting. Overall - a very good copy about this talented film actress who has made seventy movies. . Eighth Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine.

New York: Praeger Publishers, 1974. Mary's almost 200 roles spanned the formative years of film art, from D.W. Griffith's early short silents to the sophisticated sound films of the early thirties. "Sweetheart" is not only the first full-scale biography of this fascinating Canadian-born actress but also a history of the silent-movie era. The life of Mary Pickford is full of romance, accomplishment, and glamour..... but also a great measure of tragedy. The preface by the author is followed with an introduction. Four sections of photographs are present. An appendix provides the films of Mary Pickford with the release dates and other pertinent information. This book closes with a bibliography and index. Red cloth boards. Gilt title print to spine. No ownership markings or inscription. A bright book in it's glossy, price-intact, illustrated dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Gill Speirs.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London: Hodder & Stoughton,, 1989. The absorbing, thrilling, often hilarious - but secret - wartime journals of Joyce Grenfell as she travelled around the Mediterranean and Asia in 1944-45 entertaining the troops. Attractively bound book - brown cloth with gilt title print and drawing on spine. Map endpapers. No ownership markings. Photograph illustrations provided. Photo dust jacket - price still intact. A "new" - feel and look, clean and bright.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

New York: The Viking Press 1971 Book Club Edition. Kanin shares his vision of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, individually and as a team. They were one couple everyone knew of but no one really knew anything about. What kept these two - so opposite in taste and technique - so fiercely together for twenty-seven years? Black boards with gilt decoration to front board and gilt print to spine. No ownership markings. Illustrated dust jacket.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977. "Vivien Leigh: A biography" is an experience that holds its audience spellbound through the final act. One of the most talented, beautiful and tormented actresses who ever captured the public imagination is brought into brilliant focus in this definitive, intimate portrait of her life...and the glittering worlds in which she lived. Anne Edwards has produced a frank, open book that does not spare the truth, yet is as romantic a canvas, as turbulent and moving a story as any of the great films in which Vivien ever starred. Readers will remember her dazzling rise to stardom as Scarlet O'Hara in the movie "Gone With The Wind." B/w photos are present. Bookplate to ffep and name to prelim. A clean, sound copy in a photo dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1989. Tony Randall's wit, intelligence, prodigious memory, and unreasonable love of story telling is amply demonstrated in this vastly entertaining collection of show business stories. B/W photos are present. Erratum laid in. Photo dust jacket price intact.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New.