Mae West is one of the true icons of show business, enjoying success on stage and in movies. She created her character, wrote her own dialog, and understood self-promotion. An…

Begins with a discussion of Bob Hope’s early career and the short films that he starred in, and then covers each of the Hope films beginning with ‘The Big Broadcast’…

John Garfield was, and remains, one of the most impactful actors of 20th century American cinema. A towering influence on so many screen performers who came along afterward, Garfield managed…

The 1930s represented the strongest and most significant decade in Clark Gable’s career. The decade culminated with Gable’s most noted movie, Gone With the Wind. This book traces Gable’s early…

The Essential Jack Nicholson looks at the key films in the career of one of Hollywood’s biggest stars. After a brief profile of the actor, author James L. Neibaur highlights…

In The Charley Chase Talkies: 1929-1940, James L. Neibaur examines, film-by-film, the comedian’s 79 short subjects at Roach and Columbia studios. The first book to examine any portion of Chase’s…

Long before his momentous teaming with Oliver Hardy, comedian Stan Laurel (1890-1965) was a motion picture star. This is a film-by-film look at the pictures Stan made as a solo…

The complete history of the James Bond film series.