The acclaimed film biographer and author of Young Orson and Funny Man returns with the definitive...

Nicholas Ray spent the glory years of his career creating films that were dark, emotionally charg...

A deeply textured and compelling portrait of comedy giant Mel Brooks, covering his rags-to-riches...

Oscar Micheaux was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D. W. Griffith--a bigger-than-life Amer...

An exciting new collection of interviews with important screen artists.The acclaimed biographer o...

An exciting new collection of interviews with important screen artists.The acclaimed biographer o...

'First published in 1997 by St. Martin's Press'--T.p. verso.

No American artist or entertainer has enjoyed a more dramatic rise than Orson Welles. At the age ...

''Backstory 4 'lives up to the high standards of the previous volumes, providing us with intimate...

Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light is the definitive biography of the Master of Suspe...

Patrick McGilligan, placed among “the front rank of film biographers” by the Washington Post, spe...

Jack Nicholson has lived large on and off the screen. Patrick McGilligan, one of America's outsta...