Product Description: Sam Goldwyn’s career spanned almost the entire history of Hollywood. He made his first film, The Squaw Man, in 1913, and he died in 1974 at the age of ninety-one. In the many years between, he produced an enormous number of films―including such classics as Wuthering Heights, Street Scene, Arrowsmith, Dodsworth, The Little Foxes, and The Best Years of Our Lives―and worked with many luminaries―Gary Cooper, Ronald Colman, Laurence Olivier, George Balanchine, Lillian Hellman, Howard Hawks, John Ford, Eddie Cantor, Busby Berkeley, Danny Kaye, Merle Oberon, and Bob Hope among them...read more

Product Description: Pioneering a distinctly American style that combined modern dance and ballet with a traditional folk idiom, Agnes de Mille popularized what had been an elitist art and irrevocably changed the American musical theater. During a life that spanned most of the twentieth century, de Mille worked and played with a fabulous cast of characters, from her uncle (the legendary Cecil B...read more

Product Description: The first comprehensive biography of the woman who changed the world of dance. Pioneering a distinctive American style that combined elements of modern dance & ballet with a traditional folk idiom, Agnes de Mille popularized what had been an elitist art & irrevocably changed the American musical theater with her dances for Oklahoma!, Carousel, Brigadoon, & other smash Broadway musicals...read more

Chronicles the celebrated musician's life fron her debut at age sixteen, through international superstardom at twenty, marriage to Israeli conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim, affliction with multiple sclerosis, and forced reirement, to her death at forty-two

Product Description: Carol Easton, who knew Jacqueline du Pre well, draws on this friendship to create a moving and insightful portrait of a singularly complex person. Jacqueline du Pre (the subject of the recent film Hilary and Jackie) was the music world's "golden girl", with what appeared to many to be a fairytale career and storybook marriage to Daniel Barenboim...read more

A revisionist life of Hollywood's most famous and still controversial producer, seeking out the man behind the legend and noting his contributions to and influence on the motion picture industry

Photographs and accompanying text depict the neighborhoods, social life, historic buildings, and the movie industry in Los Angeles