The Parade's Gone By...
9 best books like The Parade's Gone By... (Kevin Brownlow): Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul, American Prince: A Memoir, Lulu in Hollywood, Swanson on Swanson, City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s, This Is Orson Welles, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Conversations with Wilder, The Devil's Candy: The Anatomy Of A Hollywood Fiasco
Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
| Author | Howard Schultz |
| ISBN | 1605292885 |
In 2008, Howard Schultz, the president and chairman of Starbucks, made the unprecedented decision to return as the CEO eight years after he stepped down from daily oversight of the company and became chairman. Concerned that Starbucks had lost its way, Schultz was determined to help it return to its...
American Prince: A Memoir
| Author | Tony Curtis |
| ISBN | 0307408493 |
“All my life I had one dream and that was to be in the movies.”
He was the Golden Boy of the Golden Age. A prince of the silver screen. Dashing and debonair, Tony Curtis arrived on the scene in a blaze of bright lights and celluloid. His good looks, smooth charm, and natural talent earned him fame,...
| Author | Louise Brooks |
| ISBN | 0816637318 |
After reading Laura Moriarty's The Chaperone and being disappointed by its noticeable lack of Louise Brooks, I wanted to find a nonfiction account of the silent film star's life. Luckily, in addition to the numerous biographies available, Brooks also wrote her own account of her career. It's not as...
| Author | Gloria Swanson |
| ISBN | 0671433547 |
I fell a bit in love with Gloria reading her biography. It's non stop from her grace onto the silent screens of cinema to working her way to becoming the most famous celebrity on the planet. All without an ounce of arrogance, desperation or any other pathological profile that seems to gravitate celebrities...
| Author | Otto Friedrich |
| ISBN | 0520209494 |
If you were going to have only one book on Hollywood, this is it. Beyond essential. Beyond ... well anything. Any book that combines the Marx Brothers with Thomas Mann with Howard Hughes with Brecht with Sam Goldwyn with ... It just goes on and it's one great story after another.
The key thing is...
Innovative film and theater director, radio producer, actor, writer, painter, narrator, and magician, Orson Welles (1915–1985) was the last true Renaissance man of the twentieth century. From such great radio works as "War of the Worlds" to his cinematic masterpieces Citizen Kane, The Magnificent...
| Author | Peter Biskind |
| ISBN | 0684857081 |
However much is true, however much really happened that way, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How The Sex 'N' Drugs 'N' Rock 'N' Generation Saved Hollywood by Peter Biskind remains one of my favorite non-fiction reads. For those who hear "film history" and think Titanic, in 1967, the major American film studios...
| Author | Cameron Crowe |
| ISBN | 0375709673 |
In Conversations with Wilder, Hollywood's legendary and famously elusive director Billy Wilder agrees for the first time to talk extensively about his life and work.
Here, in an extraordinary book with more than 650 black-and-white photographs -- including film posters, stills, grabs,...
| Author | Julie Salamon |
| ISBN | 0306811235 |
"A definitive portrait of the madness of big-time moviemaking."--Newsweek
When Brian De Palma agreed to allow Julie Salamon unlimited access to the film production of Tom Wolfe's best-selling book The Bonfire of the Vanities, both director and journalist must have felt like they were...
