Search Results: Biograhy Actors from The Owl at the Bridge

London, Victor Gollancz, 1952.. Hard Cover. 339 p., index, 23 cm.The letters from Shaw, a subject of contention when Mrs. Pat wanted to publish them in 1920, are matched in wit and vivacity by those of the great actress. Although not credited, it was her daughter, Stella Patrick Campbell, who transcribed them for Allen Dent. Stock# 44,607. Vg / dj vg.

N.Y., Macmillan, 1981. Hard Cover. xviii, 316 p. illus., 24 cm. Biography of the film actress whose performances in a string of 1930's roles made her one of the great stars of the decade. Stock #29,423. Vg/ dj vg.

London, Rockliff [1950]. Hard Cover. xvi, 207 p., index, plates incl. portrait front.; 22.5 cm. A celebrated actress, Charles Lamb dedicated sonnets to her and proposed marriage, she was a substantial personage off the stage as well as on. Stock# 30,211. Vg/ no dj.. History; Biography; Women.

N.Y., Morrow,1990. Hard Cover. 464 p. illus., 24 cm. Biography of actress Bette Davis (1908-1989) whose career spanned six decades and more than eighty films. Stock #29,424. Vg/ dj vg.

N.Y., Doubleday, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover. xviii, 156 p. illus., 24 cm. The difficulties, physical, political, legal of making films in India seem so daunting that it is a surprise that anyone does. This is about making a film set in the 1820's. ISBN (10): 0385260598. Stock #29,478x. Vg/ dj vg.

London, Hulton Press [1957]. Hard Cover. vii, 308 p., 30 illus., portraits; 23 cm. Delightful candid autobiography of the youthful years of the son of actress Ellen Terry, who himself became an actor and noted stage designer. With illustrations from art and photographs. Very Good with bookplate and owner signature on front fly / dj vg. Stock#47962.

New York, Delilah Books, Distributed by Putnam, c1982. Soft Cover. 320 p.,32 p. of illus., 23 cm. Biography of the talented actress and political activist. Filmography: p. 314-320. Stock# 36,809. Vg/ paper.

N.Y., Norton, 1975. First Edition. Hard Cover. xix, 244 p. 6 plates of photographs, 21.5 cm. Written at a tim when Hepburn was at the top of her career, an extraodinary thing for an actress who was such an individualist. Stock #29,474. Vg/ dj vg.

"This book will tell you/ What it was like for me to meet/ John Huston, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall/ In London and in Africa/ For the first time./ To work with them nonstop for about three months./ And why--/ Come hell or high water/ Through thick and through thin/ For better and for worse/ But not quite until death do we part--/ It was great fun. -- K.H." Breathless, staccato, lots of dashes, not much grammatical connection, mixed sequences, the actor, in her only book, written in the mid-1980s, recalls what it was like to make a film on location in 1951. Hardcover. 134 pages, 45 black-&-white photos; As New. Stock#25939/h.

N.Y., Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. Hard Cover. 5 p.l., 531, [2] p. illus. 24 cm. One of the great English actresses of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. Her epistolary affair with Geoge Bernard Shaw generated hundreds of witty, brilliant letters for forty years. Stock# 30,049. Vg/ dj vg.

San Diego, Harcourt, Brace, 1990. Hard Cover. 3 p.l., 266 p. 24 cm. "In the 1960's I probably announced my retirement more often than any actress since Sarah Berhardt." And wrote as many autobiographies. This was the last of them. Stock #29,473. Vg/ dj vg.

[New York] etc Farrar, Straus & Giroux [1966]. Hard Cover. 185 p. 21 cm. A biography of the great Italian actress by a great American thespian (and lesbian). NS. Stock# 35,007. Vg/ dj vg.

NY, Boni & Liveright, 1924. Hard Cover. 361 p., front., plates, ports., facsims.; 23 cm. The London edition has title: Sarah Bernhardt As I Knew Her. This is a very personal account of the French actress, 1844-1923, yet the spine and front cover of the American edition credit Woon as author. Stock#101567. Vg/ no dj.

NY, Time Entertainment, 2014. Periodical. 78, [2] p., illus.; 27.5 cm. A picture-filled tribute to the late actress. "Vol. 14, No 17, September 2014". Stock#47838. Vg / magazine.