Charlie Chaplin was first lauded and later reviled in the America that made him Hollywood's richest man. This title presents relationship between the Tramp, his creator, and his world-wide fans, and retrieves Chaplin as the iconic London street-kid who carried the 'surreal' antics of early British Music Hall triumphantly onto the Hollywood screen.

Presents an account of Mae West's legendarily sassy life and work. This work examines her early vaudeville career, her controversial Broadway shows, and her phenomenal film career, through to her larger-than-life Vegas and nightclub acts, and talks about her life with her companion-unto-death, Paul Novak.

Laurel and Hardy can still reduce audiences to helpless laughter, as Simon Louvish attests in this chronicle of their lives and works.

Cecil B DeMille is Hollywood's most enduring legend. This work tells the tale of Cecil DeMille through his work: a major re-examination of Hollywood's most monumental founder. Savant or sinner, artist or hack, defender of freedom or a hypocritical opportunist who embraced the golden calf of sheer commercialism?

The most illustrious men and women of the past would have much to teach us if only, by some miracle, we could get them to tell us just what it was that really mattered to them, what made a difference in their lives, and what their strongest beliefs were. Part of the Coffee with... series, this work enables us to do just that with Groucho.

This biography of the Marx Brothers features all five of them; Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo and the forgotten brother, Gummo, who never appeared on screen. It delves into the roots of their act on stage, where they performed successfully for 24 years prior to their first film.

Narrates the tale of Cecil B Demille through his works such as Samson and Delilah and The Ten Commandments (1956 version).

Simon Louvish, biographer of several celebrities, brings Mae West to vibrant life, charting her amazing seven decades in show business. This work makes use of Mae's recently uncovered personal papers, with different script versions of both her known works and hitherto unknown drafts and plays.

A detailed account of W.C. Fields's artistic path to the cinema which aims to disentangle the facts from the myths nurtured by Fields himself. It follows his career from stage to silent screen, and his later struggle to create some of the most celebrated scenes in the history of cinema humour.