Product Description: Joseph P. Kennedy’s reputation as a savvy businessman, diplomat, and sly political patriarch is well-documented.  But his years as a Hollywood mogul have never been fully explored until now.  In Joseph P. Kennedy Presents, Cari Beauchamp brilliantly explores this unknown chapter in Kennedy’s biography...read more

Product Description: During Joseph P. Kennedys reign in Hollywood from 1926 to 1930, he changed the very nature of the business of moviemaking, creating the first modern entertainment empire. Cari Beauchamp writes about the pictures Kennedy produced, the stars he made and destroyed and the men who did his bidding...read more

Product Description: Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary is an insider’s view of the film studios of the 1920s—and the first from a secretary’s perspective. Rich in gossip, it is also an eyewitness report of Hollywood in transition. In the summer of 1924, Valeria Belletti and her friend Irma visited California, but instead of returning home to New York, the twenty-six-year-old Valeria decided to stay in Los Angeles...read more

Product Description: This memoir is filled with recollections of many Hollywood greats and features a number of previously unpublished photographs. It is a boy's-eye-view of John Barrymore, Jack Warner, Darryl Zanuck, Louella Parsons and Hal Wallis, to name just a few...read more

Draws on personal letters, journals, and interviews with family members and colleagues to capture the life and times of Frances Marion

Includes interviews with more than one hundred Cannes insiders to provide a glimpse into the annual Cannes Film Festival, where everyone from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Grace Kelly have converged during this international summit for the movies.