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Notre librairie, située au 49, Boulevard Saint-Germain, 75005 Paris (Quartier Latin), est la boutique pour acheter des livres sur le cinéma.
Our shop, located at 49, Boulevard Saint-Germain, 75005 Paris (Quartier Latin), is the bookstore to buy books about cinema.
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![Not the Girl Next Door: Joan Crawford, a Personal Biography]()
By: Applause BooksNot the Girl Next Door: Joan Crawford, a Personal Biography
16,95 €Draws on personal interviews and private records to trace the Golden Age Hollywood star's life and career from her own perspective, in an intimate portrait of Crawford that includes coverage of her four marriages, three Academy Award nominations, and notorious relationship with her adopted children. 50,000 first printing. -
![Rage and Glory: The Volatile Life and Career of George C. Scott]()
By: Applause BooksRage and Glory: The Volatile Life and Career of George C. Scott
29,95 €George C. Scott (1927-1999) born in Wise, Virginia, created some of the 20th century's most memorable performances on stage and screen – the cunning prosecutor in Anatomy of a Murder, the manipulative gambler in The Hustler, the buffoonishly warmongering chief of staff in Dr. Strangelove, and, of course, the brilliant and rebellious Patton. He also played Willy Loman, Richard III, Mussolini, Scrooge, Fagin, and countless others. But his offstage life was as filled with drama and controversy as any of the lives he portrayed with such intensity. -
![Starring Joan Crawford: The Films, the Fantasy, and the Modern Relevance of a Silver Screen Icon]()
By: Applause BooksStarring Joan Crawford: The Films, the Fantasy, and the Modern Relevance of a Silver Screen Icon
39,95 €Joan Crawford: the name has an enduring fascination. Forty-five years after her death, Crawford remains a familiar icon in pop culture and the entertainment world. Certainly the camp bathos of Mommie Dearest has played a part in her continued relevance. But it is ultimately her work and career themselves that account for her remarkable longevity in the culture. From her first film in 1925, to her rise to stardom in 1928, and on to the hit films she appeared in through the 1960s, she continually molded and remolded herself, crafting an indelible image and ensuring her place in the American pantheon. -
![Stella!: Mother of Modern Acting]()
By: Applause BooksStella!: Mother of Modern Acting
28,95 €Arthur Miller decided to become a playwright after seeing her perform with the Group Theater. Marlon Brando attributed his acting to her genius as a teacher. Theater critic Robert Brustein calls her the greatest acting teacher in America. At the turn of the 20th century – by which time acting had hardly evolved since classical Greece – Stella Adler became a child star of the Yiddish stage in New York, where she was being groomed to refine acting craft and eventually help pioneer its modern gold standard: method acting. -
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By: Applause BooksJohn Hughes FAQ
18,95 €Looking for a comprehensive chronicle of the films of legendary director, screenwriter, and producer John Hughes? You’re holding it in your hands. Covering the entirety of Hughes's career, from his earliest features through to his mainstream box-office successes, John Hughes FAQ explores the key factors that contributed to his legendary status in the world of cinema. -
![The Life and Death of Peter Sellers]()
By: Applause BooksThe Life and Death of Peter Sellers
18,95 €Sellers' fluidity as an actor made for a terrifying madness that grew like a slow metastasizing cancer throughout his adult life. The story of Peter Sellers concludes with his premature death at the age of 54, “sick at heart and alone in those sunless hotel rooms ” so recoiled from intimacy that no one really knew him anymore. -
![James Stewart: Behind the Scenes of a Wonderful Life]()
By: Applause BooksJames Stewart: Behind the Scenes of a Wonderful Life
16,95 €This startling, intimate biography of James Stewart frankly reveals with new facts and discovers a fully dimensional view of this revered figure and consummate American icon. Shrewd, self-protective, financially astute, the James Stewart that Mr. Quirk uncovers was no bumbling naive Mr. Smith, but a Man of the World. -
![Elvis Films FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the King of Rock 'n' Roll in Hollywood]()
By: Applause BooksElvis Films FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the King of Rock 'n' Roll in Hollywood
19,95 €If Elvis Presley had not wanted to be a movie star, he would never have single-handedly revolutionized popular culture. Yet this aspect of his phenomenal career has been much maligned and misunderstood – partly because the King himself once referred to his 33 movies as a rut he had got stuck in just off Hollywood Boulevard. Elvis Films FAQ explores his best and worst moments as an actor, analyzes the bizarre autobiographical detail that runs through so many of his films, and reflects on what it must be like to be idolized by millions around the world yet have to make a living singing about dogs, chambers of commerce, and fatally naive shrimps. -
![Marlon Brando: Hollywood Rebel]()
By: Applause BooksMarlon Brando: Hollywood Rebel
29,95 €Over the last eighty years, Marlon Brando has become such an object of fascination, buried under so many accreted layers of mythos and half-truth, that it is all but impossible to see the man behind the icon. As we approach the centennial of this undisputed American legend, Marlon Brando: Hollywood Rebel isa revelatory biography that tells its story the same way the man himself approached a role: from the inside. -
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![The Life and Times of Betty Boop]()
By: Applause BooksThe Life and Times of Betty Boop
20,00 €The 100-Year History of an Animated Icon
