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Cary Grant: A Biography

10 best books like Cary Grant: A Biography (Marc Eliot): The Million Dollar Mermaid, By Myself and Then Some, High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly, An Affair to Remember: The Remarkable Love Story of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis, Bogart: In Search of My Father, Audrey Hepburn: An Intimate Portrait, Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leigh, Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams - The Early Years 1903 - 1940, Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx

The Million Dollar Mermaid
AuthorEsther Williams
ISBN0684852845
During Hollywood's heyday, big studios battled over the next box-office attraction. While Gene Kelly danced and Judy Garland sang, Esther Williams swam into the heart of America with her dazzling smile, stunning aquabatics, and whole-some appeal. Hand-picked for stardom by movie mogul Louis B....
By Myself and Then Some
AuthorLauren Bacall
ISBN0061127914
Lauren Bacall was barely 20 when she made her Hollywood debut with Humphrey Bogart and became an overnight sex symbol. Their romance on and off screen made them Hollywood's most celebrated couple and together they produced some of the most electric scenes in movie history. But when Bogart died of cancer...
High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly
AuthorDonald Spoto
ISBN0307395618
Drawing on his unprecedented access to Grace Kelly, bestselling biographer Donald Spoto at last offers an intimate, honest, and authoritative portrait of one of Hollywood’s legendary actresses.


In just seven years–from 1950 through 1956–Grace Kelly embarked on a whirlwind...
An Affair to Remember: The Remarkable Love Story of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy
AuthorChristopher Andersen
ISBN0380731584
She was a living legend, a symbol of fierce independence who defied convention to live life on her own terms. He was the greatest screen actor of all time, the personification of the rock-solid American male. During their twenty-six years together, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy mesmerized the...
Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis
AuthorEd Sikov
ISBN0805075488
The legendary Hollywood star blazes a fiery trail in this enthralling portrait of a brilliant actress and the movies her talent elevated to greatness She was magnificent and exasperating in equal measure. Jack Warner called her "an explosive little broad with a sharp left." Humphrey Bogart...
Bogart: In Search of My Father
AuthorStephen Humphrey Bogart
ISBN0452277043
For Humphrey Bogart's son, making sense of and peace with the father he lost at an early age has led him down a path of understanding that he now reveals. Along the way, he came up with surprising anecdotes involving Frank Sinatra, Bette Davis, John Houston, Audrey Hepburn, and Stephen Bogart's stepfather,...
Audrey Hepburn: An Intimate Portrait
AuthorDiana Maychick
ISBN0806580003
When she began writing her biography of Audrey Hepburn, author Diana Maychick never dreamed she would have such unprecedented access to the reclusive and legendary star. Audrey Hepburn insisted that a proper biography could never be completed unless she was willing to share some intensely personal...
Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leigh
AuthorAlexander Walker
ISBN0802132596
I have seldom been more disappointed with a biography. I felt it should have been wonderful, considering the authority of the sources and the expertise of the author. However, it was dense and often dull in its repetitiveness. Other times, he left out key facts. For instance, Vivien suddenly has a relapse...
Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams - The Early Years 1903 - 1940
AuthorGary Giddins
ISBN0316886459
First off, "Pocketful of Dreams" is a balanced biography. It would be nice if this didn't have to be noted, but especially in the case of Crosby, when his children and step-children have written scathing or adoring memoirs, it is refreshing when a biographer explores all aspects of a person, the strengths...
Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx
AuthorStefan Kanfer
ISBN0375702075
This definitive biography of one of the world’s greatest comedians unflinchingly yet affectionately uncovers the man behind the cigar.

Here is the amazing career of the man the world recognized as Groucho: the improbable disasters of the vaudeville years; the Marx Brothers, an act so...
It's Only a Movie: A Personal Biography of Alfred Hitchcock
AuthorCharlotte Chandler
ISBN1557836922
Applause Books" It's Only a Movie is the best book ever written about my father. It really is amazing." Patricia Hitchcock North by Northwest. Psycho. Rear Window. The Birds. Vertigo. When it comes to murder and mayhem, shock and suspense, the films of Alfred Hitchcock can not be surpassed. For this...
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
AuthorGraham McCann
ISBN0231108850
Born in Bristol to a working class family as Archie Leach, Cary Grant rose to become an icon of cinema's Golden Age. He embodied the stylish, sophisticated gentleman, but set himself apart from others of that ilk by retaining a gentle sense of self-mocking humour, and his humble roots meant he never allowed...
Jean Arthur: The Actress Nobody Knew
AuthorJohn Oller
ISBN0879102780
The luminous star of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Shane, and other classic films was, as the subtitle aptly puts it, "the actress nobody knew." Jean Arthur (1900-91) kept her personal life private, disdained the Hollywood publicity machine, and was called "difficult" because of her perfectionism...
Evenings with Cary Grant: Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best
AuthorNancy Nelson
ISBN1557839239
Charming, witty, effortlessly debonair, and elegant, Cary Grant was the ultimate leading man, a silver screen icon who seemed to embody all that a movie star should be. But beneath the glamour was a real and complicated man - surprisingly vulnerable, unabashedly romantic, often exacting perfectionist...
Robert Mitchum: "Baby I Don't Care"
AuthorLee Server
ISBN0312285434
One of the movies' greatest actors and most colorful characters, a real-life tough guy with the prison record to prove it, Robert Mitchum was a movie icon for an almost unprecedented half-century, the cool, sleepy-eyed star of such classics as The Night of the Hunter; Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison; Cape...
Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn
AuthorWilliam J. Mann
ISBN0805076255
The first major Katharine Hepburn biography independent of her control reveals the smart, complicated, and sophisticated woman behind the image
Onscreen she played society girls, Spencer Tracy's sidekick, lionesses in winter. But the best character Katharine Hepburn ever created was Katharine...
Tracy and Hepburn
AuthorGarson Kanin
ISBN1556111029
"Hepburn started wearing pants and outraging people in grade school when girls and women in pants were unheard-of, and never stopped; she was the first girl to wear pants to class at Bryn Mawr, and in fact "they became her trademark... her baggies were so raggedy she held them up with safety pins, a style...
Paul Newman: A Life
AuthorShawn Levy
ISBN0307353753
Paul Newman, the Oscar-winning actor with the legendary blue eyes, achieved superstar status by playing charismatic renegades, broken heroes, and winsome antiheroes in such revered films as The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Verdict, The Color of Money, and Nobody’s...
Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland
AuthorGerald Clarke
ISBN0316855952
Judy Garland. The girl with the pigtails, the symbol of innocence in The Wizard of Oz. The brightest star of the Hollywood musical and an entertainer of almost magical power. The woman of a half-dozen comebacks, a hundred heartbreaks, and thousands of headlines. Yet much of what has been written about...
Spencer Tracy
AuthorJames Curtis
ISBN0307262898
“The best goddamned actor I’ve ever seen!”—George M. Cohan

His full name was Spencer Bonaventure Tracy. He was called “The Gray Fox” by Frank Sinatra; other actors called him the “The Pope.”

Spencer Tracy’s image on-screen was that of a self-reliant man whose...
If This Was Happiness: A Biography of Rita Hayworth
AuthorBarbara Leaming
ISBN0517079968
A beautiful actress, a gifted dancer, a fiery screen temptress linked to some of the most handsome men of her generation, Rita Hayworth seemed to live the life that dreams are made of. But the reality behind the fantasy was a harsh one. Sexually abused by her father as a young girl, Rita constantly searched...
Dark City Dames: The Wicked Women of Film Noir
AuthorEddie Muller
ISBN0060393696
Film noir was the dark side of the movies' happily-ever-after mythology. Sinister and sexy, it forged a new icon: the tough, independent, take-no-guff dame. Determined, desirable, dangerous when cornered, she could handle trouble -- or deal out some of her own.If you thought these women were something...
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