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Susan Fleming appeared in three Broadway shows and twenty-eight films before she turned her back on a show business career she never really enjoyed or wanted. The role of her lifetime came when she married Harpo Marx in 1936. Together, they raised four adopted children and enjoyed one of Hollywood's happiest and most successful unions. But their twenty-year age difference made Susan a young widow in 1964.On her path to Hollywood, Susan worked in Broadway musicals produced by Florenz Ziegfeld and George White and befriended a young dancer who would later be known as Paulette Goddard. In Hollywood, she appeared in films with stars like John Wayne, W.C. Fields, and Katharine Hepburn and worked at all the major studios. But it wasn't until she fell in love with a confirmed bachelor, twenty years older than her, that she found her purpose. Her story is the counterpoint to the beloved and acclaimed Harpo Marx autobiography, Harpo Speaks! Susan's frank, opinionated perspective provides a true look behind the curtain and details Harpo's last years, following the publication of his own book.Susan's account of her more than thirty-year adventure with Harpo includes encounters with people like Charlie Chaplin, William Randolph Hearst, Salvador Dalí, Somerset Maugham, Joan Crawford, Howard Hughes, George S. Kaufman, Helen Keller, Oscar Levant, Jean Harlow, Bugsy Siegel, Samuel Goldwyn, Menachem Begin, Ginger Rogers, Alexander Woollcott, and of course, the Marx Brothers. Susan provides an inside look at the family and pulls no punches when discussing her brothers-in-law, who weren't always her favorite comedians.

An updated paperback reprint of Ted Chapin's classic, Everything Was Possible, featuring a new afterword reflecting on the show's 50th anniversary.

Songwriting guru Rikky Rooksby surveys Springsteen's rich catalogue and uses common techniques as a starting point for a masterclass in the art of writing powerful songs.

STORY THEATRE FOUR SHOWS

In her wry, entertaining, and astute style, master of her craft Beatrice Manley dispenses wide-ranging insights and nuanced wisdom accumulated from a lifetime on the stage.

WORDS AND MUSIC: THE ADVENTURES OF AN OPTIMIST

You can't have a big blockbuster of failure, it seems, without the participation of Broadway's biggest talents.

Kallie Marie offers a rare, candid, and insightful look at the perspectives of women in music production and audio engineering and how they navigate their industry.

Being Gerry Mulligan: My Life in Music is Gerry Mulligan in his own words. This autobiography tells the story of the iconic American jazz saxophonist, clarinettist, composer, and arranger.

A combination of wisdom and tools derived from 450 productions' worth of personal experience and a series of investigations into the minds and methods of the designer's key collaborator: the director.

Whether you read it from cover to cover, seek out specific albums, or just dip in at random and let the needle fall where it may, 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Minute is a fun, informative, and unapologetically opinionated read.

The Actor's Mindset, authored by esteemed Los Angeles and Manhattan-based acting coach Craig Archibald, departs from most acting books-which focus either on the art or the business of entertainment-to show readers how to approach their acting career holistically as both artist and entrepreneur, and how best to nurture each.

Fugitive Billy Houston, keen to bring about a Nazi-run Britain, needs money. Intent on burglary, his victim has in his possession the entire anti-invasion plans for Southern Britain. Billy must get the plans to the German delegation. Will he succeed? If he does, Hitler will lead Britain to a German invasion.

John Pearce finds himself working aboard HMS Griffin sailing the Channel in search of the numerous French privateers preying on English merchant ships. He must find a way off the ship in order to rescue his ailing father from the dangers of revolutionary Paris. But when traveling to France, he discovers that his worst fears have become reality.

John Pearce is entrusted with the task of escorting 5,000 radical French sailors to a port on the Atlantic coast where they are to be set free. But when the assignment goes awry, it is up to Pearce and his trio of friends, the Pelicans, to prevent judicial murder.

Lieutenant John Pearce is seeking protection for his friends from a reluctant Admiralty. Lacking the evidence of perjury, his prospects are not promising. Ralph Barclay's wife has the means to get her own way: the evidence Pearce believes was lost at sea. His friends join Pear...

After situating his previous crew in comfort, John Pearce charts his return home to his pregnant darling Emily. He is tasked with outsmarting his enemies Admiral William Hotham and Emily's husband Captain Ralph Barclay who can legally claim Pearce's child as his own.

Captain Hale's Covenant is a family saga about Adam Hale, an American Revolutionary War blockade runner who, with his sons, builds a fortune in trade with France, England, and Jamaica during the Federal Period (1783-1822).

John Pearce and his Pelicans are going home to gain their freedom and put the treacherous Captain Ralph Barclay in the dock. Emily Barclay discovers Pearce has papers that would ruin her husband's career and her future security. Back on British soil, the real concerns have just begun.

When The Lights Are Bright Again is a love letter to the arts community and every theatergoer, but, above all else, it is a meditation on the human experience. There is something for every broken, tired, and angry soul inside this book: hope.

Volume #8 in the Nathan Peake series. This is the story of the murders and intrigues, the myths and mysteries--and crucially the naval encounters--that preceded the most famous battle in nautical history. This is Nathan Peake's Trafalgar, the true story of the events leading up to the campaign.

It is 1777, the Year of the Hangman, and Captain Isaac Biddlecomb is bound for Philadelphia with his wife and child in the Continental brig Charlemagne. His orders are to take command of the newly built 20-gun frigate Falmouth and get her out to sea before she is taken by General Richard Howe's invading army.Unbeknownst to Biddlecomb, the entire British fleet stands between him and the new nation's capital. Forced to run his beloved Charlemagne aground, Biddlecomb comes face-to-face with his mortal enemy, Royal Navy Lieutenant John Smeaton. Meanwhile, General Washington has yielded Philadelphia to Britain's might. As Biddlecomb and his crew battle to reach the prized Falmouth, only shipwright Malachi Foote and a ragtag band of deserters from the Continental Army stand between the vessel and the seemingly unstoppable British Army.

Come the late '70s, the rock music landscape was littered with the bloated carcasses of bands who partied too hard, burned out, or became complacent in success. The door was open for something fresh, wild, and enrapturing. Enter Van Halen. Made up of two Dutch-born brothers, one on drums and the other whose guitar was an extension of his very being, a bass player with a golden throat, and a frontman who made up for his lack of singing ability with attitude and gravity-defying acrobatics onstage, they were unlike anything ever seen before.Alex and Edward Van Halen, Michael Anthony, and David Lee Roth put a cap on one decade and exploded into the next with a brand of music not quite punk, not quite metal, and not at all subtle. They went from headlining backyard keggers to top billing at the US Festival in front of three hundred thousand people within five years. Then, right when it looked like there wasn't an obstacle created to slow the Mighty Van Halen ascent, the group imploded from the inside out, only to rebound stronger than ever with ex-Montrose howler Sammy Hagar leading them to four consecutive number one albums. Van Halen: The Eruption and the Aftershock tells the story of how one of America's greatest bands weathered arguably the most dramatic soap opera in rock and roll history with songs that would weave themselves into the fabric of every musician who heard them, alongside an incendiary and unrivaled live show. Featuring exclusive interviews with insiders, fans, and artists who were there to witness the rise, the tumult, and the making of legends, it's a story that has to be read to be believed.

Hollywood in the Thirties: Nazi saboteurs, gangsters running gambling ships, British spies and diplomats, FBI agents, starlets looking for the big break, cheap hustlers on the fringes of the law, local cops-some are friends and some are adversaries, but all are involved someho...

The eve of World War II. A Hollywood producer's murdered wife. Her husband's guilty memory of a shipboard romance. A stolen painting signed "Picasso." French gangsters. A beautiful courtesan. A shoot-out in a brasserie. All these and more confront Private Detective Riley Fitzh...

This is the ultimate ten-minute play collection that is perfect for this time: the collection of thirty ten-minute plays is expressly set and meant to be performed outdoors. The book offers a healthy and safe way to partake in live theater performances!

She Persisted: One Hundred Monologues from Plays by Women Over Forty is a collection of monologues from plays by members of Honor Roll!, an advocacy group of women over forty. About Honor Roll!:"Honor Roll! is an advocacy and action group of women+ playwrights over forty?and our allies?whose goal is our inclusion in theater. The term "women+" refers to a spectrum of gender identification that includes women, non-binary identifiers, and trans. We are the generation excluded at the outset of our careers because of sexism, now overlooked because of ageism. We celebrate diversity in theater, and work to call attention to the negative impact of age discrimination alongside gender, race, ethnicity, faith, socioeconomic status, disability, and sexual orientation in the American Theatre and beyond.""These women are in their forties and fifties and sixties, and they have been writing a long time, and they are at the height of their craft. These are tight, complex, nuanced pieces of writing, which no one has seen because for too long they weren't looking. These are important writers, and important plays." ?Theresa Rebeck, from the introduction