Show Business Bios, Memoirs, and Non-Fiction

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Elia Kazan: A Life
Elia Kazan: A Life 4.11 avg rating — 419 ratings
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Mike Nichols: A Life
Mike Nichols: A Life 4.48 avg rating — 3,354 ratings
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Life isn't everything: Mike Nichols, as remembered by 150 of his closest friends.
Life isn't everything: Mike Nichols, as remembered by 150 of his closest friends. 4.15 avg rating — 434 ratings
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Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan 3.82 avg rating — 130 ratings
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All people are famous
All people are famous 3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Female Brando: The Legend of Kim Stanley
Female Brando: The Legend of Kim Stanley 3.81 avg rating — 52 ratings
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The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act
The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act 4.27 avg rating — 916 ratings
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Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers
Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers 4.24 avg rating — 2,087 ratings
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Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins
Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins 4.08 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War 4.12 avg rating — 2,102 ratings
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Cary Grant: A Biography
Cary Grant: A Biography 3.71 avg rating — 2,357 ratings
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Timebends: A Life
Timebends: A Life 3.94 avg rating — 559 ratings
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Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
by: John Lahr
4.23 avg rating — 941 ratings
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An Open Book
An Open Book 4.09 avg rating — 286 ratings
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Paul Newman: A Life
Paul Newman: A Life 3.84 avg rating — 1,727 ratings
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De Niro: A Life
De Niro: A Life 3.83 avg rating — 507 ratings
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Scorsese on Scorsese
Scorsese on Scorsese 4.11 avg rating — 1,312 ratings
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Conversations with Wilder
Conversations with Wilder 4.29 avg rating — 1,256 ratings
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Hitchcock/Truffaut
Hitchcock/Truffaut 4.48 avg rating — 9,065 ratings
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Robert Altman: The Oral Biography
Robert Altman: The Oral Biography 4.22 avg rating — 381 ratings
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Queen Meryl: The Iconic Roles, Heroic Deeds, and Legendary Life of Meryl Streep
Queen Meryl: The Iconic Roles, Heroic Deeds, and Legendary Life of Meryl Streep 3.54 avg rating — 733 ratings
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Laurence Olivier: A Biography
Laurence Olivier: A Biography 3.58 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Robin
Robin 4.12 avg rating — 18,741 ratings
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Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi
Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi 3.74 avg rating — 2,695 ratings
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In Pieces
In Pieces 3.94 avg rating — 40,892 ratings
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Actors' Lives: On and Off the American Stage
Actors' Lives: On and Off the American Stage 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Director's Voice: Twenty-One Interviews
The Director's Voice: Twenty-One Interviews 3.98 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Journeys in the Night: Creating a New American Theatre with Circle in the Square: A Memoir (Applause Books)
Journeys in the Night: Creating a New American Theatre with Circle in the Square: A Memoir (Applause Books) 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Thinking in Pictures: The Making of the Movie Matewan
Thinking in Pictures: The Making of the Movie Matewan 4.16 avg rating — 188 ratings
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Getting Away With It: Or: The Further Adventures of the Luckiest Bastard You Ever Saw
Getting Away With It: Or: The Further Adventures of the Luckiest Bastard You Ever Saw 3.84 avg rating — 185 ratings
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Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of Casablanca--Bogart, Bergman, and World War II
Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of Casablanca--Bogart, Bergman, and World War II 4.02 avg rating — 454 ratings
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Al Pacino
Al Pacino 3.97 avg rating — 1,036 ratings
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A Method to Their Madness: The History of the Actors Studio
A Method to Their Madness: The History of the Actors Studio 3.81 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Backstory 2: Interviews With Screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s
Backstory 2: Interviews With Screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s 4.32 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Backstory 1: Interviews With Screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age
Backstory 1: Interviews With Screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age 4.32 avg rating — 40 ratings
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George Lucas
George Lucas 4.18 avg rating — 3,934 ratings
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The Princess Diarist
The Princess Diarist 3.70 avg rating — 88,150 ratings
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Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein
Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein 3.86 avg rating — 994 ratings
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Stephen Sondheim: A Life
Stephen Sondheim: A Life 4.15 avg rating — 884 ratings
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Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them
Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them 3.69 avg rating — 2,106 ratings
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Year Of The King
Year Of The King 4.44 avg rating — 684 ratings
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Free for All: Joe Papp, the Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told
Free for All: Joe Papp, the Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told 4.53 avg rating — 292 ratings
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Joe Papp: An American Life
Joe Papp: An American Life 4.31 avg rating — 42 ratings
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An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood
An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood 4.01 avg rating — 765 ratings
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The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era
The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era 4.28 avg rating — 661 ratings
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Sondheim & Co
Sondheim & Co 4.32 avg rating — 126 ratings
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All His Jazz: The Life And Death Of Bob Fosse
All His Jazz: The Life And Death Of Bob Fosse 3.94 avg rating — 234 ratings
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Shooting to Kill: How an Independent Producer Blasts Through the Barriers to Make Movies that Matter
Shooting to Kill: How an Independent Producer Blasts Through the Barriers to Make Movies that Matter 4.06 avg rating — 418 ratings
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How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollywood
How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollywood 4.04 avg rating — 709 ratings
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My First Movie: Twenty Celebrated Directors Talk about Their First Film
My First Movie: Twenty Celebrated Directors Talk about Their First Film 3.94 avg rating — 348 ratings
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Smoking in Bed: Conversations With Bruce Robinson
Smoking in Bed: Conversations With Bruce Robinson 4.22 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Confessions of an Actor
Confessions of an Actor 3.67 avg rating — 381 ratings
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Blessings in Disguise
Blessings in Disguise 3.77 avg rating — 401 ratings
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Orson Welles, Vol. 2: Hello Americans (Orson Welles, #2)
Orson Welles, Vol. 2: Hello Americans (Orson Welles, #2) 4.24 avg rating — 298 ratings
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Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor
Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor 3.96 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Orson Welles, Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu (Orson Welles, #1)
Orson Welles, Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu (Orson Welles, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 641 ratings
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The Circle Repertory Company: The First Fifteen Years
The Circle Repertory Company: The First Fifteen Years 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre and the 30's
The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre and the 30's 4.10 avg rating — 293 ratings
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No Applause--Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous
No Applause--Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous
by: Trav S.D.
4.09 avg rating — 248 ratings
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Backstory 5: Interviews With Screenwriters of the 1990s
Backstory 5: Interviews With Screenwriters of the 1990s 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Backstory 4: Interviews With Screenwriters of the 1970s and 1980s
Backstory 4: Interviews With Screenwriters of the 1970s and 1980s 4.45 avg rating — 22 ratings
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On Acting
On Acting 3.95 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Masters of Light: Conversations with Contemporary Cinematographers
Masters of Light: Conversations with Contemporary Cinematographers 4.26 avg rating — 200 ratings
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Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy
Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy 3.66 avg rating — 13,063 ratings
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Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film
Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film 3.81 avg rating — 3,549 ratings
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Who the Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors
Who the Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors 4.34 avg rating — 511 ratings
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood 4.14 avg rating — 9,250 ratings
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Making Movies
Making Movies 4.29 avg rating — 9,516 ratings
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Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live
Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live 4.08 avg rating — 19,830 ratings
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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life 3.88 avg rating — 105,646 ratings
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Bossypants
Bossypants
by: Tina Fey
3.96 avg rating — 1,041,950 ratings
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Theatre Kids: A True Tale of Off-Off Broadway
Theatre Kids: A True Tale of Off-Off Broadway 3.89 avg rating — 73 ratings