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Ecco
Pub. Date
2017
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In a voice startling, intimate, and rich, Norma Jeane tells her own story, that of an emblematic American artist-intensely conflicted and driven-who has lost her way. A powerful portrait of Hollywood?s myth and an extraordinary woman?s heartbreaking reality, Blonde is a sweeping epic that pays tribute to the elusive magic and devastation behind the creation of the great twentieth-century American star.
3) Billy and me
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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2013
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Sophie May has a secret. One that she's successfully kept for years. It's meant that she's had to give up her dreams of going to university and travelling the world to stay in her little village, living with her mum and working in the local teashop. But then she meets the gorgeous Billy - an actor with ambitions to make it to the top. And when they fall in love, Sophie is whisked away from the comfort of her life into Billy's glamorous - but ruthless...
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On 29 September 1981, Peter Turner received a phone call that would change his life. His former lover, Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collapsed in a Lancaster hotel and was refusing medical attention. He had no choice but to take her into his chaotic and often eccentric family's home in Liverpool. Liverpool born and bred, Turner had first set eyes on Grahame when he was a young actor, living in London. Best known for her portrayal of irresistible...
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Richard E. Grant emigrated from Swaziland to London in 1982, with dreams of making it as an actor, when he unexpectedly met and fell in love with renowned dialect coach Joan Washington. Their relationship and marriage, navigating the highs and lows of Hollywood, parenthood and loss, lasted almost forty years. When Joan died in 2021, her final challenge to him was to find `a pocketful of happiness in every day'. This honest and frequently hilarious...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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In 1975, a gangly black 16-year-old from Dudley, decked out in floppy bow tie and Frank Spencer beret, appeared on our TV screens for the first time. So began the transformation from apprentice factory worker to future national treasure of Sir Lenny Henry. In his long-awaited autobiography, Lenny tells the extraordinary story of his early years and sudden rise to fame. Born soon after his Jamaican parents had arrived in the Midlands, Lenny was raised...
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Macmillan
Pub. Date
2023
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Brilliant, funny, and widely-regarded as the nicest man in Hollywood (though he would be the first to tell you that it?s simply not the case, he?s really just grateful to be here), Henry shares in this achingly vulnerable memoir the disheartening truth of his childhood, the difficulties of a life with severe dyslexia, the pressures of a role that takes on a life of its own, and the path forward once your wildest dream seems behind you. Since the glorious...
8) Worthy
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Pub. Date
2023
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In a media driven landscape that crafts narratives for our celebrities, Smith recounts her story in an intimate conversation with readers. Along the way, she explores her path to accepting her power as a woman, and her discovery that a strong sense of self is every woman?s right and saving grace.An impactful and rare memoir that engages and educates, Worthy is a courageous love song to self, to family, to life, and to the world.From an unconventional...
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These are Dame Joan Collins' 'uncensored diaries'. Often outrageous, the entries were almost written entirely in real time. Most were done within ten hours of the events Joan describes, and many are hilarious. Whether it is an encounter with a member of the Royal Family, or her keen and honest insights of other celebrities at parties or dinners, Joan doesn't care. She's unapologetic! The diaries are intimate and funny, as readers of her column for...
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Bolinda/HarperCollins UK
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Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera personal life and magnetic screen presence, Elizabeth Taylor was the 20th century?s most famous film star. This authorised biography is a fascinating and complete portrait worthy of the legend and her legacy. Elizabeth Taylor captures this intelligent, empathetic, tenacious, volatile and complex woman as never before, from her rise to massive fame at the age of 12 in National Velvet to becoming the first...
14) White cargo
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Publisher
Michael Joseph
Pub. Date
1998
Description
Felicity Kendal's upbringing was, to say the least, unusual. She joined her father's theatre company backstage in a basket at the age of three weeks. White Cargo is a moving and beautifully crafted memoir, and touches many sensitive themes.
15) The understudy
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Pub. Date
2006
Description
What do you do when you're playing second fiddle to an actor who barely knows your name, and more importantly, what do you do when you find yourself falling in love with his wife? 'The Understudy' reveals how some people are always cast as the underdog - but that doesn't mean they never get the girl.
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JR
Pub. Date
2010
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Just one look into Morgan Freeman's eyes & it is clear that this is a man who has lived a full, sometimes hard life. To better appreciate his achievements & successes, Kathleen Tracy equally shows the triumphs, the struggles & the failures Freeman has overcome through an assortment of personal accounts & anecdotes.
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
2019.
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Sir Ian McKellen is that rarest of characters: a celebrity whose distinguished political and social service has transcended his enormous fame and international stardom to reach far beyond the stage and screen.The breadth of his endeavour - professional, personal and political - has been truly staggering. Of some 400 stage and film roles, there are only 3, in his own estimation, of which he has not been proud. Iconic roles have not been in short supply:...
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Sidgwick & Jackson
Pub. Date
2015
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There is no one quite like Brian Blessed. He's an actor, film star, trained undertaker, unlikely diplomat, secret romantic, martial artist, and mountaineer. He's also a brilliant storyteller who will - and you must brace yourself - simply leap out of the pages at you. Ready? Then open this book and you'll be taken on a riotous journey from his childhood, growing up the son of a miner in Goldthorpe, to finding fame in Z-Cars. You'll see Brian falling...
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Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2015
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Recourse to the whiskey bottle is still needed, however, to get him through a day's filming -- one made all the more arduous by the pompous posturings of the show's star, and the constant outraged interruptions of the ancient author whose detective novels are being adapted. Indeed, there is plenty of friction about. But when a particularly unpromising actress is killed, crushed to death, there seems no reason to doubt it was an accident -- except...