Stefan Kanfer has put together an excellent primer for those wanting to learn about the life of Humphrey Bogart. Tough Without A Gun is a fair, balanced and unbiased overview of this Hollywood legend. It contains neither extraneous minutiae nor is burdened by analysis. If morein-depth detail is w...
From the author of the best-selling and critically acclaimed biographies Groucho and Ball of Fire comes a definitive look back at the Yiddish Theater. In this soulful and entertaining elegy Stefan Kanfer traces its meteoric rise, its precipitous fall, and its lasting mark on American theater, fil...
This book was recommended to me by an avid "I Love Lucy" fan. I was intrigued by her description of a real life woman and her husband as less than ideal. Like the biography I read about Laurence Olivier, I was left with a feeling of disappointment.Lucille Ball was born on August 6, 1911. She bega...
The line was too provocative to be ignored. So were the notices that Desi and Lucy had received on their vaudeville tour. Variety, for example, had called their Chicago act “one of the best bills to play the house in recent months,” and said: “If the red-headed gal wants to slide on her tummy for...