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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.

Screenwriter Jeb Rosebrook presents a captivating behind-the-scenes memoir of the making of Junior Bonner, a 1972 Western classic starring Steve McQueen and directed by Sam Peckinpah.

Johann Gottfried Seume (1763-1810), der 1781 hessischen Werbern in die Hände fiel und nach Amerika verschifft wurde, machte nach seiner Rückkehr 1801/02 seine durch eigene Schilderung bekannt gewordene Fußreise nach Sizilien. Der Schauspieler Günther Sauer (1919-1990) liest Ausschnitte aus dem Buch "Mein Leben". Mit einer Einleitung von Hermann Ebeling.

Der junge Theologe Helmut Gollwitzer erlebt fünf Jahre eine Liebesgeschichte mit Eva Bildt, der Tochter von Paul Bildt, dem berühmten Schauspieler. Eva Bildt begeht mit ihrem Vater beim Anrücken der Roten Armee Selbstmord...

Ian Halperin, New York Times best-selling author of Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson, explores the relationship of the world’s most famous celebrity couple with exclusive revelations and personal anecdotes. This supercouple, unlike any other, consistently turns heads, rolls cameras, and delivers action.

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. 

Born with cerebral palsy, Geri Jewell inspired a generation of young people when she became the first person with a disability to appear in a recurring role on prime-time television, with her groundbreaking character, Cousin Geri, on the NBC sitcom The Facts of Life. The book's title - I’m Walking As Straight As I Can - has a double meaning, referring to both Jewell's sexuality and her extraordinary struggle growing up with cerebral palsy.

Beverly Washburn was one of Hollywood's most familiar child actors during the 1950s and '60s, a consummate performer who excelled at both comedy and drama with equal ease. Renowned for her uncanny ability to cry on cue, she appeared in countless television shows during the medium's Golden Age, and many of the era's best-loved movies, including Walt Disney's Old Yeller, The Greatest Show on Earth, Shane, and Spider Baby, just to name a few.

Wie nur wenige andere hat Marlene Dietrich das Gesicht des 20. Jahrhunderts mitgeprägt. Mit Anfang 50 startete sie eine zweite internationale Karriere - als Diseuse...

William Thomas, the man known as "Buckwheat," one of the most beloved characters in the history of the Our Gang and Little Rascals films, rose from obscurity to become an American icon. Billy's heritage grew to be more than the 93 comedies in which he appeared as Buckwheat. He was a husband, father, and soldier. Several generations have come to know Buckwheat as if he was a real person, but few knew Billy, the man behind the myth.

In the first full biography of actor Sidney Poitier, Aram Goudsouzian analyzes the life and career of a Hollywood legend, from his childhood in the Bahamas to his 2002 Oscar for lifetime achievement. Poitier is a gifted actor, a great American success story, an intriguing personality, and a political symbol; his life and career illuminate America's racial history.

My Old Neighborhood Remembered is a lyrical remembrance of neighborhood life that has vanished from the culture. Best-selling author Avery Corman vividly recreates the vibrant, colorful neighborhood where he grew up - in the Bronx of the 1940s and 1950s. He recalls candy stores and bookmakers, egg creams and double feature movies, street games like stickball and Johnny- on-the-pony, school days of a different era, social mores that have disappeared.

When John Huston died at 81 on August 28, 1987, America lost a towering figure in movie history. The director of such classic films as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The African Queen, The Maltese Falcon, Prizzi's Honor, and The Dead, John Huston evoked passionate responses from everyone he encountered. He was at the center of a dynasty, with three generations of Oscar winners (Walter, John and Anjelica).

Gay marriage is at the forefront of America's political battles. The human story at the center of this debate is told in Double Life: A Love Story, a dual memoir by a gay male couple in a 50-plus-year relationship. With high profiles in the entertainment, advertising and art communities, the authors offer a virtual timeline of how gay relationships have gained acceptance in the last half-century.

Since his death in 1993, Vincent Price's legacy as a Hollywood legend has only grown in stature. His lengthy and distinguished career - as the voice of The Saint on the radio; as an actor in such unforgettable horror films as House of Wax and The Fly, in classic movies such as Laura and The Song of Bernadette, and on popular TV shows such as Batman and The Brady Bunch; and as a star on the Broadway stage - spanned 65 years.

Der Schauspieler Bernhard Minetti war schon zu Lebzeiten eine Legende. Er wurde 1905 in Kiel geboren und stand seit 1927 auf den Bühnen aller großen deutschen Theater. Bereits 1931 bekam er seine erste Filmrolle. Im Gespräch mit hr-Redakteur Günther Schloz erzählte Minetti 1981 von seinen Anfängen, seinen großen Erfolgen und seinen Begegnungen mit Thomas Bernhard, der ein eigenes Drama für ihn schrieb.

Uwe Ochsenknecht ist Kult. Filme wie "Das Boot", "Männer" und "Schtonk!" haben ihn berühmt gemacht. Seit über vierzig Jahren gehört er zu den gefragtesten Schauspielern Deutschlands. Doch trotz seiner hohen Medienpräsenz hat er selbst sich mit Äußerungen zu seinem Privatleben stets zurückgehalten - bis jetzt. In seiner Autobiografie gibt Uwe Ochsenknecht erstmals ausführlich Einblick in sein Leben. Der erste Sex, die große Liebe, die umwerfenden Erfolge.

Der Bildhauer und Goldschmied Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571) erzählt in diesem Werk sein Leben. Er berichtet über seine Kindheit und Jugend, über seine Laufbahn zuerst als Hornist, dann als Goldschmied und Bildhauer, über seine Freunde und Arbeitgeber, insbesondere dem Papst und dem König von Frankreich und schließlich auch über seine Gefangenschaft. Florenz, Rom und Paris waren sein Zuhause. Seine Hauptwerke waren das berühmte "Salzfass" und der "Perseus". 1728 gab es die erste Druckausgabe in italienischer Sprache. Die von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ins Deutsche übersetzte Ausgabe mit einem von ihm verfassten Vorwort erschien im Jahr 1798.

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.

Todo el glamour y la belleza de sin duda, una de las mujeres más hermosas e irresistibles de la historia del cine. Sueca de nacimiento, inició su carrera en 1924 y desde entonces se convirtió en uno de los mayores mitos del cine al retirarse a la temprana edad de 36 años y llevar una existencia alejada de los infinitos paparazzi que la seguían, y la prensa que la adoraba.