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Jessica Lange: An Adventurer’s Heart
A well-researched and highly readable biography that is a must for film studies collections.
Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles
A wonderfully crafted and honest look at a creative giant.
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The Woman Who Dared: The Life and Times of Pearl White, Queen of the Serials
Sometimes there’s too much detail, but this is a well-researched biography that covers White’s life and offers a good assessment of the silent-film industry.
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Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop: The Team That Changed Children’s Television
Anyone who loved Lamp Chop as a child (or an adult) will likely enjoy this biography of Lewis. It may be also of interest to readers of the history of Jewish entertainment and early television.
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Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood’s Real-Life Tough Guy
A sad look at a promising career derailed and how the Hollywood establishment dealt with it.
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The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist: Seventy-Five Years Later
Mostly for history or film buffs.
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Broadway Goes to War: American Theater During World War II
An engaging, thorough, slightly academic work about an overlooked period of American drama, perhaps best reserved for theater historians and course-specific studies.
Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn’t Help It
Exemplary in its research and detail, Golden’s book may well become the definitive word--if not the last word--on the Mansfield story.
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Fat Chance: Diet Mania, Greed, and the Infamous Fen-Phen Swindle
The rotating cast of unscrupulous lawyers may exhaust readers’ patience; as the author notes early on, there are no heroes in this book. Still, it’s an absorbing tale that’s sure to hold the interest of those interested in books on corporate crime.
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