All the World's a Stage

Books about theater, TV, movies, Broadway, and Hollywood 🎭

Updated May 19, 2025
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Mercury pictures presents : a novel
Marra, Anthony
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction * The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's Italy to 1940s Los Angeles--a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the...
The big screen : the story of the movies
Thomson, David 1941-
Paper Book
The Big Screentells the enthralling story of the movies: their rise and spread, their remarkable influence over us, and the technology that made the screen--smaller now, but ever more ubiquitous--as important as the images it carries. The Big Screenis not another history of...
I like to watch : arguing my way through the TV revolution
Nussbaum, Emily 1966-
Paper Book
From The New Yorker's fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch. "Emily Nussbaum is the perfect critic-smart, engaging, funny, generous, and insightful."...
Laura Lamont's life in pictures
Straub, Emma.
Paper Book
A Bookpage Best Books of 2012 pick The enchanting story of a midwestern girl who escapes a family tragedy and is remade as a movie star during Hollywood’s golden age. In 1920, Elsa Emerson, the youngest and blondest of three sisters, is born in idyllic Door...
While we were watching Downton Abbey
Wax, Wendy.
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of My Ex-Best Friend's Wedding comes a novel about four friends who share a passion for a beloved British television show that will change all of their lives. When the concierge of The Alexander, a historic Atlanta apartment building, invites his...

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