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"Wer Hamlet spielen will", sagte der Regisseur Peter Zadek, "ist schon mal falsch besetzt", - und besetzte ganz gegen den Strich Angela Winkler mit dieser Rolle, die diese, ganz im Sinne des Regisseurs, gar nicht spielen wollte. Das war im Jahr 1999. Der Autor und Schauspieler Klaus Pohl, in dieser "Hamlet"-Inszenierung als Horatio auf der Bühne, erzählt spannend, komisch und erschütternd mitten aus dem Zadek’schen Proben-Wahnsinn - von Schauspielerinnen und Schauspielern, die in Liebe und Hass ihren Rollen verfallen und von einem überragenden Regisseur, der sich in den Strippen verheddert, an welchen er seine Akteure und Akteurinnen agieren lässt.

Anhand der Musik, die ihn beeindruckt, begleitet und geprägt hat, blickt der bekannte Schauspieler Jan Josef Liefers auf seine Kindheit und Jugend zurück...

Romy Schneider (1938 bis 1982) war eine der größten Schauspielerinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ihr künstlerisches Gesamtwerk, ihre faszinierende Persönlichkeit, ihre große Schönheit und ihr kurzes, von Schicksalsschlägen überschattetes Leben ergreifen jede Generation aufs Neue.

Fervente ambassadrice de la chanson québécoise, Monique Leyrac a chanté Vigneault, Leclerc et Léveillée sur les scènes du monde entier. Elle a joué Molière, Racine, Feydeau et a conquis tous les publics avec son incarnation flamboyante de Sarah Bernhardt. Conceptrice d'un type de spectacle jusque-là inédits, elle a célébré Nelligan, Baudelaire, Brecht et tant d'autres. Bref, en 50 années de carrière, elle a marqué son époque.

Blanche Bellemarre, Angélina Desmarais, Alice Lebrun, Marge Simpson et la Maude de Harold et Maude. Toutes ces femmes et des centaines d’autres encore, Béatrice Picard les a incarnées au théâtre et à la télévision. Elle a été des premières compagnies théâtrales, elle a joué dans de nombreux radioromans populaires des années 1940 et 1950 et participé à la naissance de la télévision publique et privée. Elle est le dernier témoin direct d’émissions légendaires comme Le Survenant, Cré Basile et Symphorien.

Homme de théâtre et figure familière du petit écran, Patrice Coquereau a souffert pendant de longues années de troubles anxieux, qui touchent environ 12% des Canadiens. Aujourd'hui serein, il dresse le bilan du chemin parcouru et, de crises de panique en fous rires, fait voler en éclats les tabous liés à la santé mentale.

Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress and singer Kristin Chenoweth’s career spans film, television, voiceover, and stage. In 2015, Chenoweth received a coveted star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2009, she received an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role in Pushing Daisies. In 1999, she won a Tony Award for You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and she was also nominated for her original role of Glinda the Good Witch in Wicked in 2004.

The incredibly versatile Allison Janney has taken her place among a select group of actors who combine a leading lady’s profile with a character actor’s art of performance. Currently starring alongside Anna Faris in the CBS/Chuck Lorre sitcom Mom, Janney also received rave reviews for her turn as Margaret Scully on Showtime’s groundbreaking drama Masters of Sex. Janney won Emmys for both roles in the same year, a rare feat in Emmy history.

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Biography) A Hollywood love story, a Hollywood memoir, a dual biography of two of Hollywood’s most famous figures, whose golden lives were lived at the center of Hollywood’s golden age, written by their daughter, an acclaimed writer and producer...

The definitive—and salacious—history of the iconic hotel that Hollywood stars have called a home away from home for almost a century. “Fascinating, dishy, and glimmering with insight.... This is the definitive book about Hollywood’s most storied hotel.” —Cheryl Strayed, bestselling...

From watching his colleague get shot in the testicles by a jealous producer to running Hollywood's most successful television studio, Harris Katleman had a front row seat in the development of the television industry. Through a number of hilarious accounts, Harris Katleman shares his journey from office boy to talent agent to television producer, and finally to studio head at both MGM and 20th Century Fox. Along the way, we meet industry giants including Rupert Murdoch, Bob Iger, Barry Diller, Marvin Davis, Kirk Kerkorian, Mark Goodson, and Lew Wasserman.

The “graceful, loving,” (The New York Times Book Review), never-before-told story of Hollywood icon Natalie Wood’s glamorous life, sudden death, and lasting legacy, written by her daughter, Natasha Gregson Wagner. Natasha Gregson Wagner’s mother, Natalie Wood, was a child actress who...

Gianni Russo was a handsome 25-year-old mobster with no acting experience when he walked onto the set of The Godfather and entered Hollywood history. He played Carlo Rizzi, the husband of Connie Corleone, who set up her brother Sonny, played by James Caan, for a hit. Russo didn't have to act - he knew the Mob inside and out, from his childhood in Little Italy, to Mafia legend Frank Costello, who took him under his wing, to acting as a messenger to New Orleans Mob boss Carlos Marcello during the Kennedy assassination.

It would take a restless camera to document Jane Fonda’s life for she is a woman of formidable energy, but Fred Lawrence Guiles’ expert commentary captures her in motion. We pursue her in a tireless route of study, self-discovery, and social awareness that causes her to ultimately reject the lifestyle of her first husband, Roger Vadim, for the role of political activist with her present husband, Tom Hayden. We witness how the shift in political climate transforms her from history’s scourge to history’s darling.

For most of her adult life, Joan Crawford was a star who dedicated herself entirely to her career. But since her death, her luster has been tarnished. Here, at last, is a biography that sets the record straight. In her heyday, Joan Crawford was probably the most imitated woman in the world. Magazine covers featured her face, and high school and college girls copied her makeup and clothing. Born Lucille Fay LeSueur in Kansas City, she spent her childhood on the edge of poverty.

Marion Davies was, in so many ways, created by and for William Randolph Hearst - their symbiotic relationship spanned from 1915 when W. R. first ogled her chorus-girl charms until his death in 1951. But she was much more quickly superannuated, cinema-historically speaking, by the Orson Welles-Herman Mankiewicz dumb-blonde caricature in Citizen Kane, paradoxically the most important film in her life.

What you may have known about Marilyn Monroe before was only the tip of the iceberg. For 20 years, the men and women who knew Marilyn best saw what they knew suppressed because certain important people were still living and the tenor of the times prohibited frankness. Instead, rumors ballooned. This audiobook finally sets the record straight. Fred Lawrence Guiles - whom Norman Mailer acknowledges as the chief source of facts about Marilyn Monroe - has written about the life behind the legend.

Surprisingly, this is the first full-length biography of the legendary comic who was the creative half of the universally loved duo Laurel and Hardy. Based upon scores of interviews with family and friends (including the intimate diaries of Virginia Ruth Laurel, whom Stan married three times), Stan tells the very human story of Laurel’s struggle to survive against difficult odds, personal and professional.

Tyrone Power was as versatile in life as he was on the screen. He was a multifaceted man and was the last idol created by the vast star-making machine 20th Century Fox. Coming from a family of multi-generational actors, Tyrone Power broke the proverbial mold. His on-screen charisma in the 30s and 40s propelled him to the forefront of must-have actors. His on-screen accomplishments were many, yet he did not hesitate to enter the military when his country went to war. After the war, he continued in his career, but the years took their toll.

Todo el glamour y la belleza de sin duda, una de las mujeres más hermosas e irresistibles de la historia del cine. Sueca de nacimiento, inició su carrera en 1924 y desde entonces se convirtió en uno de los mayores mitos del cine al retirarse a la temprana edad de 36 años y llevar una existencia alejada de los infinitos paparazzi que la seguían, y la prensa que la adoraba.