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An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow. - Lawrence Barrett


76584 MUMMY’S BOY: My Autobiography by Larry Lamb


Top of the Sunday Times Bestseller lists for many months, here is a gentlemanly and inspiring story of survival told with lashings of humour. By turns heartrending, Larry recalls the turbulent relationship with his father, and describes the effect his childhood had in later life, particularly when


he faced fatherhood himself. His hugely entertaining memoir tells captivating tales of making it as an actor, breaking out from small-town life in Essex, finding himself a new life starring on Broadway, in Hollywood, in leading roles in Eastenders and the much-loved comedy, Gavin & Stacey. Peppered with 16 pages of colour and sepia photos and short little anecdotal chapters of two to four pages with headings like Escape from College, Coming Home for Christmas, After Germany and Bluebell to Broadway. 350pp in paperback.


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by Charles Dickens Cacophonous, overcrowded and host to productions varying wildly in style and quality, the playhouses frequented by Charles Dickens during the golden age of Victorian theatre mirrored the society that they amused, dazzled and lampooned. His burning passion for theatre has often been overlooked. A poor playwright and frustrated actor, Dickens staged performances


and personally adapted many of his own fictional works. A consummate self-publicist, he also undertook numerous stage tours. This collection is a compelling and representative snapshot of Victorian theatre from one of the age’s greatest storytellers drawing on sources both fictional and journalistic. Chapter headings include Astley’s, Private Theatres, Mr Wopsle Plays Hamlet, Mrs Joseph Porter and Two Views of A Cheap Theatre. What is clear is that Dickens loved people. 90pp in paperback.


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76457 DO YOU THINK THAT’S WISE? The Life of John Le Mesurier


by Graham McCann We all think we know John Le Mesurier because we believe in his persona as Sergeant Wilson in Dad’s Army but, as this authorised and definitive biography shows, his real life was much more complicated. To some extent, he was playing himself. For instance,


he prioritised a perusal of the Racing Post in the morning before buckling down to rehearsals. He once sweet- talked a make-up girl into taking off his watch, winding it up and tenderly putting it back on. But, in his private life this mild, quietly-spoken decent man was plagued by turmoil and heartbreak. Married three times, he saw his first wife succumb to alcoholism. His second wife, the comedy diva Hattie Jacques, moved her lover into the family home and his third, although she cared devotedly for him to the end of his life, did enjoy a passionate affair with his former screen colleague Tony Hancock. Ultimately, as this sensitive and sympathetic book shows, he was a far more courageous profound and admirable man than the public would have suspected him to be. 342 pages with b/w archive photos. £18.99 NOW £6.50


76632 UNSINKABLE: A Memoir


by Debbie Reynolds and


Dorian Hannaway Often referred to as ‘America’s sweetheart’, Debbie is an actress, comedienne, singer, dancer and author, best known for her roles in the films Singing in the Rain and The Unsinkable Molly Brown. This frank and fearless book shines a light on the resilient woman whose


talent and passion for her work have endured for more than six decades. She shares private details about her man and money troubles, including building and losing her Las Vegas dream hotel and her treasured Hollywood memorabilia collection. She invites readers into the close circle of her family, speaking with deep affection about her relationships with her children, Carrie and Todd Fisher, and looks back at her life as an actress during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including her lifelong friendship with (and years of estrangement from) the legendary Elizabeth Taylor. Here, too, are stories that never reached the tabloids, featuring numerous celebrities such as Ava Gardner, Clark Gable, Frank Sinatra, Mick Jagger, Gene Kelly and many more. There is also a guided tour through her movies, and anecdotes about every film in which she was involved, from 1948 to the present. 306 pages illustrated in colour and b/w with list of the films of Debbie Reynolds and previously unseen photos from her personal collection. £17.99 NOW £7.50


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76350 SHERLOCK HOLMES ON SCREEN: The Complete


Film and TV History Third Edition - Fully Revised and Updated by Alan Barnes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s master detective Sherlock Holmes has appeared on screen more times than any other fictional character. This marvellous volume surveys over a


century’s worth of his exploits in film and television, from the silent era to the present day. Actors Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett and Peter Cushing have all been praised for their portrayals of Holmes. This book casts new light on their performances, as well as introducing many less familiar Sherlocks too - including John Cleese, Roger Moore and Larry Hagman. The book is now updated with entries on the BBC’s modern-day Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch and director Guy Richie’s all- action Sherlock Holmes starring Robert Downey Junior, plus Sherlockian turns from Rupert Everett and Jonathan Pryce. Expanded coverage of Holmes’ animated escapades with Batman, Scooby-Doo and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and more, plus new research into the great detective’s silent film career, makes this revised edition the most comprehensive Holmes filmography ever published. 320 paperback pages packed with rare archive b/w pictures, with author’s note, glossary and appendix: The Lost Detektivfilms. Small remainder mark. £16.99 NOW £6


75250 LIFE AND TIMES OF


CALL THE MIDWIFE by Heidi Thomas


The official BBC companion to series one and two takes you behind-the- scenes of the TV sensation that has brought to life Jennifer Worth’s bestselling autobiography of her experiences as a midwife among the slums and buzzing dockyards of


London’s East End in the 1950s. Discover where the real Monnatus House is, all about the babies and the child extras, how Miranda Hart came to play Chummy, all about Fred, the convent handyman who in the book had bowed legs, a spectacular squint and only one tooth, how the nurses loved a good bike ride and the hidden secrets of the nuns and nurses and what flavour cake ruled in the kitchen. With details of the midwife’s medical bag contents, profiles of each nurse, fashion, beauty, homes, food, Christmas and more. 286 big pages, colour photos. £20 NOW £7


73888 SIR CHARLIE: Chaplin, The Funniest


Man in the World by Sid Fleischman Profusely illustrated, we begin with Charlie’s birth on 16 April 1889 to Charles Chaplin Snr and his wife Hannah, vaudevillians both. Escaping poverty in London for the US in 1910, he took his jack-of-all-theatrical-trades skills to Hollywood and, as we all know, the rest is history. Chaplin was to become the most famous and funniest man on earth, as well as one of the richest. His rise to fame, the films, the co-stars, the wives, his falling out with Hoover’s FBI, his knighthood in 1975, his death, aged 88. Photos and press cuttings. 268pp. $19.99 NOW £3


74166 SOME SUNNY DAY: My Autobiography by Dame Vera Lynn


Born Vera Welch in 1917, Dame Vera Lynn’s career began at just seven years old when she sang professionally in East End Working Men’s Clubs. A successful radio career with Joe Loss and Charlie Kunz in the 1920s and 30s followed, but it was in World War II that she became famous. With her radio show Sincerely Yours, Vera connected emotionally with the men fighting for their country, and those left behind praying for their loved ones, and became known as The Forces’ Sweetheart. 311 page paperback, b/w and colour photos.


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74452 BARBRA STREISAND by Nick Yapp


America’s most successful female singer-songwriter is as popular as ever as she enters her eighth decade. The Brooklyn-born singer made a feature of her unusual looks, her Jewish background, her love of glamorous clothes and her commitment to radical political causes. She learnt her trade singing in local clubs and on the radio. Once she had played the role of Miss Marmelstein in I Can Get It For You Wholesale, her Broadway career was assured. This huge book full of wonderful photos follows the high spots of Streisand’s career, including Fanny Brice in Funny Girl, the musical that launched her face onto the cover of Time magazine. 176pp, colour and b/w illus. ONLY £4


74707 HOME: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews


‘When Walt [Disney] appeared in my dressing room, he exuded natural charm and friendliness. After the formalities, he told me and Tony about a combination live action/animated film that he was planning to make, based on the Mary Poppins books by P. L. Travers. I was familiar with the title, but had never read the books.’ Shame on you, Julie! Fast paced, full of fun and vitality like the lady herself, this is showbiz biography at its very best. First edition. 340pp with 32 pages of b/w photos. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. $26.95 NOW £6.50


74461 RICHARD & JUDY: The Autobiography by Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan In one of the most strong and enduring showbusiness marriages, Richard and Judy tell their stories side by side - about their lives before each other, their first marriages and the incredible chemistry that first drew them together. They reveal the fun as well as the drama behind the scenes and share the huge happiness their family life has brought them. Colour and b/w photos. Paperback, 376pp. £9.99 NOW 50p


75675 PICK OF THE OLDIE FROM THE LAST 21


YEARS edited by Sonali Chapman The Oldie is for the mature individual of any age. Over 50 fascinating features from the last 21 years are collected in this bumper volume. Joanna Lumley’s top six pin-ups give Elvis the crown, natch,


but her runners-up are intriguing: John Betjemen and Barry Humphries. Patricia Highsmith tells us how she almost bumped into the elusive Garbo. Paul Pickering reflects on Vicars he has known, some of them nearer to hell than to heaven, and William Trevor muses on the careers of fellow school mates as gnomically revealed in the Old Boys’ Bulletin. Contributions from the world of the theatre include Nell Dunn’s celebration of sleeplessness. 89pp, colour illus. £9.99 NOW £4


74987 RIN TIN TIN: The Life and Legend of


the World’s Most Famous Dog by Susan Orlean September 1918 and Corporal Lee Duncan was sent into the ruins of a German camp to see what could be used. There was a bunker used for housing military dogs - German Shepherds - which had taken a hit from a shell and contained over 20 dead animals and one nursing female with five puppies, amazingly still alive. Duncan kept one of the puppies, brought it back to California and the legend of Rin Tin Tin was born. Between then and his death in 1932 he starred in 27 films and would certainly have won an Oscar if it was not a humans- only award. After Duncan died in 1960 the RTT bloodline was kept going. A poignant exploration of the human-animal bond, a rich history of the 20th century movie business, an analysis of the role of dogs. 324pp paperback, photos. £14.99 NOW £4


75153 FILM NOIR: 100 All- Time Favourites


edited by Paul Duncan and Jürgen Müller


Enter a world populated by private eyes, gangsters, psychopaths and femmes fatales, where deception, lust, and betrayal run rampant. The first film-by-film photography book on film noir and neo-noir, this


essential collection begins with the early genre influencers of German and French silent film, journeys through such seminal works such as Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice and Vertigo, and arrives at the present day via Chinatown, Pulp Fiction, Heat, and the recent cult favourite Drive. Entries include posters, tons of rare stills, cast-crew details, quotes from the films and from critics and analyses of the films. Film director, film noir scholar and Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader provides the introduction to this feast of noir worship. Populated by the genre’s most revered directors like Hitchcock, Wilder, Welles, Polanski, Mann and Scorsese, the book also pays homage to its iconic faces, including Mitchum, Bogart, Hayworth, Bergman, Grant, Bacall, Crawford, Nicholson, Pacino, and so many more. 8.5" x 10.8", 688 pages with bookmark. From Taschen, quality, value heavyweight. ONLY £35


75255 DRAMATIC IMPRESSIONS: Japanese Theatre Prints From the Gilbert Luber


Collection by the Arthur Ross Gallery Osaka prints made a vibrant engagement between actors and their audience, the ‘floating world’ and its imagery in the Edo period of Japan (1603-1868). By the first quarter of the 19th century, the arts of kabuki had long been intertwined in Japan and established as a theatrical form as early as the 17th century. Kabuki’s celebrated actors were being represented in woodblock prints that were made available as souvenirs and advertisements. Pleasure quarters, sumo wrestling, famous places and the like were produced by commercial publishers. Heavily painted faces, outlined eyes, grimacing, beautiful Geisha women, warriors, with their stylised hair, cloaks, gowns and kimonos, these bold posters are here reproduced in a catalogue of prints. Outsize softback, 56pp, colour. £14 NOW £5


75259 MARILYN & ME by Lawrence Schiller Sub-titled ‘A Photographer’s Memoirs’ there are 18 never previously published photographs by the Life and Newsweek photo journalist Lawrence Schiller here. The 23 year old Schiller when he arrived at 20th Century- Fox studios in 1960 and his subject was Marilyn Monroe, America’s sweetheart and sex symbol. Schiller recalls the friendship that developed between the two while he photographed her over a two year period. Monroe knew how to use her looks and sexuality to generate publicity, and in 1962 she allowed Schiller to publish the first nude photographs of her in more than 10 years, which she then used as a weapon against a studio that wanted to have her fired, and ultimately succeeded. The Marilyn Schiller knew and writes about was adept at hiding deep psychological scars, but was also warm and open, candid and disarming. 118 roughcut pages. £14.99 NOW £6


75667 HERGE: The Man Who Created Tintin by Pierre Assouline


Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a testimony to the influence of the world’s greatest cartoon character: the Shanghai cabaret, the sacrifices, the magic diamond are all inspired by Tintin’s adventures. Georges Remi, alias Hergé, overturns all popular misconceptions about Belgians. He was soon creating cartoons for a scouting magazine, and on leaving school became a journalist on a right-wing Catholic newspaper presided over by Father Norbert Wallez, who commissioned him to create a teenager with a dog, embodying Catholic virtues. This figure eventually became Tintin. The author investigates Hergé’s troubled relationships as well as the charge of collaboration levelled at Remi following the liberation of Belgium. 276pp, paperback. £9.99 NOW £3.50


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75776 CHARLIE CHAPLIN by Nick Yapp


When his singer-songwriter father abandoned the family, Charlie was sent to a Central London Poor Law School, where the norm was brutality. His first professional appearance of any importance was with the Eight Lancashire Lads at the Theatre Royal, Manchester where, in six weeks, he mastered


the art of clog dancing and worked out his own improvised comedy business. It was a bad start and Charlie was often homeless, hungry and ill, but he would not be beaten. From 1915 to 1950, Charles Spencer Chaplin was the most famous figure in the world, a man who rose from abject poverty to become the owner of a major Hollywood studio. His Tramp needed no words. He communicated a kaleidoscope of moods and a rainbow of emotions by a movement of the hand, a facial expression, a slump or a lift of the body. Until his fourth marriage, Charlie’s personal life teetered on disaster. More than once he came within a whisker of falling foul of the law and for 20 years he was in virtual exile from the country. These revealing pictures, together with informative text, tell his life story in a touching 176 pages. Very large, 29.5cm x 27.5cm in sharp b/w with a couple of colour photos. ONLY £10


75737 ELIZABETH TAYLOR by Kathryn Dixon Elizabeth Taylor defined movie star. Breathtakingly beautiful from a very young age, she most successfully made the rare transition for child star to adult star, pocketing two Best Actress Oscars and numerous other honours for her acting. She battled an over-bearing stage mother, a strong-handed studio, unhappy marriages, media attention, alcohol and prescription drug addiction and lifelong health problems. Well known for her seven husbands and eight marriages and for her magnificent jewellery collection, Taylor also fought to fund and support AIDS/HIV research after her acting career was over. Photos both b/w and colour of E.T. as Cleopatra, a cowgirl, at an award ceremony with Bette Davis, meeting the Queen, with newborn daughter Liza, in Ivanhoe in 1952 and hundreds more glamour shots. 96pp.


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75742 LIBERACE by Isabella Alston When Liberace was just seven years old he memorised the full 17 page score of Mendelssohn’s ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in one day. He learned the entertainment business as a teenager playing honkytonks and bars, moving to New York City where he found immediate success. Soon he moved to California and to stand out in an extremely competitive market, Liberace practiced 12 hours a day and originated his unique style combining classic works, shortened to appeal to a mass audience, with the popular tunes of the day. It was at the time, in the early 1940s, that he plopped the infamous candelabra on top of his grand piano. The lavish, over-the-top costumes would come later. Packed with photos of his piano swimming pool, with Hollywood friends like Rosemary Clooney, President Truman, Ray Charles and all his album covers and magazine headlines to portraits at his home - with his hair dyed violet, and his fingers heavy with rings. 96pp, colour. ONLY £5.75


75997 JUDY: A Legendary Film Career by John Fricke


Hundreds of never-before-published photos, newly assembled contemporary reviews, insights from her co- stars and production histories are produced for each film in which Judy Garland appeared. She starred in two dozen all-time classic movie musicals, among them A Star Is Born, Meet Me In St Louis, Babes in Arms, Easter Parade, For Me and my Gal and The Harvey Girls. Her dramatic turns in Judgement at Nuremberg, The Clock and A Child in Waiting won added acclaim. And most unforgettably she starred as Dorothy Gale in the best-loved motion picture of all time, The Wizard of Oz. From her debut in 1936 through to the aptly titled ‘I Could Go On Singing’ in 1963, Judy Garland produced incomparable work on screen, stage, record, radio and television on her road to Oz. Includes a biography, list of concerts, fabulous poster art, costume tests, behind- the-scenes candids, on stage and back stage glimpses. Colour. 352pp, 9" x 12". £20 NOW £8.50


75743 LIFE OF GRAHAM by Bob McCabe The authorised biography of the Monty Python Graham Chapman who was the quiet, pipe-smoking, tweed- jacketed one who had actually qualified as a doctor. His calm demeanour belied his true anarchic nature, as more than any other Python, he lived the complete lunacy of the show. Graham Chapman was John Cleese’s writing partner from the early days at Cambridge Footlights, on to The Frost Report and right through the Monty Python years. As pressures of work increased, alcohol took a disproportionate hold on his life. At the height of his drinking Chapman would consume up to three bottles of gin a day. He eventually overcame his addiction and went on to produce his finest and most memorable work as Brian in ‘Life of Brian’. An honest and hilarious tribute. 264pp, photos. £7.99 NOW £4.50


75983 IN GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR: A


Century of Film and How It has Shaped Us by Francine Stock


Film is a communal dream in which our fears and fantasies are revealed, often to startling effect, and it has influenced our behaviour in small but significant ways. Consider how, after Clark Gable’s example in It Happened One Night, men abandoned their vests! Before that, every man wore a vest. Film has helped to forge national identity, galvanise against a wartime enemy or warn of social upheaval via horror or science fiction. It has burrowed deep into our psyche, changing perceptions of history and memory. In fact, the results of one study showed that soldiers’ recall may sometimes owe more to war films than to their actual experiences. A revealing and fascinating study. 344 pages. £18.99 NOW £5.50


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