Títulos en Actores

Bette Davis didn’t fit the usual Hollywood image of beauty, but by sheer force of will she became one of the most famous and prominent actresses of the twentieth century. Her entire life was focused on her six-decades-long career. This invariably led to the loss of three husbands and estrangement from her oldest daughter. Still, Bette Davis lived with few regrets. Her most famous movies, Jezebel, All About Eve, and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? are still considered classics, discovered by a generation that wasn’t even born when the movies were made.

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.

If you’re looking to be inspired by someone who has truly made the most of life’s opportunities, then listen to this remarkable story of one of today’s most well-known celebrities. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is best known as a former professional wrestler who later came to dominate Hollywood with a series of blockbuster movies. His powerful on-screen presence and strong physique give the impression that he effortlessly reached global success, yet Dwayne faced a series of challenges and setbacks as he rose to the top.

Ever wonder why so many B actors wind up as A-grade politicians? Or how the casting couch worked? Acclaimed author Kathleen Sharp traces the influence of show business through the lives of its first power couple. Edie and Lew Wasserman built the world’s largest talent agency, MCA, created the multibillion-dollar Universal Studios, and helped shape Washington, DC.

Phantom Lady chronicles the untold story of Hollywood’s most powerful female writer-producer of the 1940s. In 1933 Joan Harrison was a 26-year-old former salesgirl with a dream of escaping her stodgy London suburb and the dreadful prospect of settling down with one of the local boys. A few short years later, she was Alfred Hitchcock’s confidante and the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of his first American film, Rebecca. Harrison had quickly grown from being the worst secretary Hitchcock ever had to one of his closest collaborators.

In their star-studded memoir, Hollywood Lights, Nashville Nights, coauthors Victoria Hallman and Diana Goodman are the first of the iconic Hee Haw Honeys to write about their lives as the glamour gals of TV's longest-running syndicated variety show.

"Che Diva sei? È la domanda per 'indossare' la propria maschera, e in ogni sembianza, sotto ogni copertura, ridisegnare i generi o fluttuarvi delicatamente da un lato all'altro. Dive e Divine insegnano a smantellare i 'tipi' di donne (e di uomini), divise in categorie, classificate a seconda del fascino e della bellezza, ma come scrive Francis Scott Fitzgerald: 'Lui voleva fare di me una Dea, invece io voglio essere Mickey Mouse'."

David Morrell is best known for his acclaimed thrillers, including The Brotherhood of the Rose, Creepers, Murder as a Fine Art, and his debut novel, First Blood, in which Rambo first appeared. But Morrell is also a master of nonfiction. Twenty of his essays about iconic writers, actors, and singers are collected in Stars in My Eyes: My Love Affair with Books, Movies, and Music.

Notable actriz norteamericana nacida en 1938, fue junto a Elizabeth Taylor uno de los grandes íconos femeninos del séptimo arte del siglo XX gracias a su enorme belleza, su capacidad expresiva y su talento actoral. Muerta trágica y misteriosamente en 1981, su estela continúa brillando hasta hoy.

Un actor de suceso en Hollywood, famoso actor de televisión, británico de corazón, es ampliamente conocido por su papeles en los filmes If..., La naranja mecánica y Calígula, realizando papeles de carácter rebelde y cruel, pero aún así seductor y de gran arrastre mediático.

La biografía de este actor y director de cine estadounidense, que saltó a la fama al dirigir y actuar al lado de Peter Fonda en la película Easy Rider: Buscando mi Destino de 1969, la serie "24”, o Máxima Velocidad, en un audiolibro que estamos seguros, le gustará de principio a fin.

Ganadora del Óscar en 1978, Vanessa Redgrave es considerada una de las máximas estrellas del teatro, la televisión y el cine, donde su magistral actuación hizo de casi todas sus películas clásicos absolutos (Blow-up, Isadora, Un hombre para la eternidad, etc.). Tan coherente y enérgica como polémica y repudiada por sus detractores ideológicos, ha sabido defender las causas que ha apoyado y el camino que sigue su instinto, trascendiendo su éxito del mundo del celuloide.

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.

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.

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.

For over 20 years, the name John Agar on a marquee meant action to moviegoers - from World War II land, sea, and air battles, to the frontier West, to the new frontier of 1950s science fiction, where he stood fast against some of the era's most memorable movie monsters. Agar's rise to fame was meteoric: during World War II, the $83-a-month buck sergeant met and later married "America's Sweetheart", Shirley Temple, and was soon offered a screen test and dramatic instruction by Hollywood mega-mogul David O. Selznick.

Howard Hughes lived one of the greatest, most heroic, misunderstood, mysterious, bizarre, and tragic lives in American history. In this brilliantly documented biography, the mythology that surrounded that life is disentangled from the truth.

She was the tempestuous, strong-willed woman who ignited the movie screen with her legendary performances in Of Human Bondage, Jezebel, and All About Eve. Off-camera, Bette Davis survived four disastrous marriages and earned a larger-than-life professional reputation as an actress to be reckoned with.

A classically trained actor who cut his teeth in the East Village's off-Broadway scene, Ron Perlman - a Golden Globe winner with starring roles in the Hellboy, Drive, Pacific Rim, and Sons of Anarchy - has traveled an offbeat path to showbiz success. His story involves rising from New York's tough Washington Heights neighborhood, enduring incredible hardships, and ignoring the naysayers who taunted him for his distinctive looks.

Once upon a time a girl said, ‘In India, real people don’t become movie stars’. The same girl became the biggest crossover star. That very girl can’t walk around in New York City now ‘without being mobbed’. That’s Priyanka Chopra for you. The quintessential ‘Girl Uninterrupted’. She came from a small-town middle-class family in North India. During the Miss India contest, she was grilled by none other than Shah Rukh Khan. She prevailed and won the hearts of millions.