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American actors and actresses : a guide to information sources / Stephen M. Archer.
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- Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research, c1983.
- 1983
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWER 83-940 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre - Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Hands with a heart : the personal biography of actress Zasu Pitts / Gayle D. Haffner.
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- Denver, Colo. : Outskirts Press, ©2011.
- 2011
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text X794759 Off-site Nihon eigajin taikan = Who's who : Japanese motion picture industry.
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- Tōkyō : Kinema Junpōsha, Shōwa 34 [1959]
- 1959
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PN1993.5.J3 N5575 1959 Off-site A biographical dictionary of silent film western actors and actresses / George A. Katchmer ; foreword by Diana Serra Cary.
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- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, ©2002.
- 2002
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PN1995.9.W4 K33 2002 Off-site A biographical dictionary of silent film Western actors and actresses / George A. Katchmer ; foreword by Diana Serra Cary.
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- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2002.
- 2002
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWER 02-4468 Offsite Jane Wyman, the actress and the woman : an illustrated biography / Lawrence J. Quirk.
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- New York : Dembner Books : Distributed by Norton, [1986], ©1986.
- 1986-1986
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PN2287.W8 Q57 1986 Off-site Sweethearts of the sage : biographies and filmographies of 258 actresses apperaring in western movies / by Buck Rainey; with forewords by Barbara Stanwyck and Charles Starrett.
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- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, 2012, c1992.
- 2012-1992
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWER 13-1026 Vol. 2 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWER 13-1026 Vol. 1 Offsite The stars of Hollywood remembered : career biographies of 82 actors and actresses of the golden era, 1920s-1950s / J.G. Ellrod.
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- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c1997.
- 1997
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWER 97-10459 Offsite The stars of Hollywood remembered : career biographies of 82 actors and actresses of the golden era, 1920s-1950s / J.G. Ellrod.
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- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c1997.
- 1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PN1998.2 .E46 1997 Off-site Jane Wyman : the actress and the woman : an illustrated biography / Lawrence J. Quirk.
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- New York : Dembner Books : Distributed by Norton, c1986.
- 1986
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWES (Wyman, J.) 86-2481 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Barbra, an actress who sings : an unauthorized biography / by James Kimbrell.
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- Boston : Branden Pub. Co., c1989-c1992.
- 1989-present
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWES (Streisand, B) 95-15498 v. 2 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWES (Streisand, B) 95-15498 v. 1 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The ultimate directory of silent and sound era performers : a necrology of actors and actresses / Billy H. Doyle ; consulting editor, Anthony Slide.
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- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1999.
- 1999
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWER 99-9932 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre - Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
"A" Western filmmakers : a biographical dictionary of writers, directors, cinematographers, composers, actors and actresses / [compiled by] Henryk Hoffman.
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- Jefferson, N.C. ; London : McFarland, c2000.
- 2000
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWER 00-3226 Offsite Guillermo Calles : a biography of the actor and Mexican cinema pioneer / Rogelio Agrasánchez, Jr.
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- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2010.
- 2010
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWES (Calles, G.) 14-2025 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Sweethearts of the sage : biographies and filmographies of 258 actresses appearing in western movies / by Buck Rainey ; with forewords by Barbara Stanwyck and Charles Starrett.
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- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1992.
- 1992
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWER 92-17656 Offsite The post-feminist Hollywood actress : biographies and filmographies of stars born after 1939 / Kerry Segrave and Linda Martin.
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- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c1990.
- 1990
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWER 90-4088 Offsite The post-feminist Hollywood actress : biographies and filmographies of stars born after 1939 / Kerry Segrave and Linda Martin.
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- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [1990], ©1990.
- 1990-1990
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PN1998.2 .S44 1990 Off-site Sweethearts of the sage : biographies and filmographies of 258 actresses appearing in western movies / by Buck Rainey ; with forewords by Barbara Stanwyck and Charles Starrett.
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- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [1992], ©1992.
- 1992-1992
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PN2285 .R35 1992 Off-site An actor's actor : the authorized biography of Sanjeev Kumar / Hanif Zaveri, Sumant Batra ; foreword by Shatrughan Sinha.
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- Gurugram, Haryana, India : Ebury Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2021.
- 2021-2021
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PN1998.3.K86 Z38 2021 Off-site Silent players [electronic resource] : a biographical and autobiographical study of 100 silent film actors and actresses / Anthony Slide.
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- Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2002.
- 2002
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Silent players : a biographical and autobiographical study of 100 silent film actors and actresses / Anthony Slide.
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- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2002.
- 2002
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWER 02-6932 Offsite Famous Jewish people in the arts, actors & actresses / [editor, Sanford L. Batkin].
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- New York, NY : American Friends of David Yellin Teachers College, 2000.
- 2000
Siobhán : a memoir of an actress / Micheál Ó hAodha.
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- Dingle, Co. Kerry, Ireland : Brandon, 1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PN2601.M345 O35 1994g Off-site Vivien Leigh : actress and icon / edited by Kate Dorney and Maggie B. Gale.
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- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.
- 2018-2018
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWES (Leigh, V.) 18-1253 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Picture show who's who on the screen : 1800 biographies and photographs.
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- [London : Amalgamated Press, 195-?]
- 1950
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Thr 182.70.5 Off-site The Griffith actresses.
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- South Brunswick : A. S. Barnes, [1973]
- 1973
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PN1998.A3 G78 Off-site The Griffith actresses.
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- South Brunswick, A. S. Barnes [1973]
- 1973
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 30109.411.86 Off-site The Griffith actresses.
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- South Brunswick, A. S. Barnes [1973]
- 1973
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWER 74-1141 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWER 74-1141 Offsite Guillermo Calles : a biography of the actor and Mexican cinema pioneer / Rogelio Agrasánchez, Jr.
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- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2010.
- 2010
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PN2318.C255 A37 2010 Off-site The Griffith actresses.
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- South Brunswick, A. S. Barnes [1973]
- 1973
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 30109.411.86 Off-site The actress : Hollywood acting and the female star / Karen Hollinger.
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- New York : Routledge, 2006.
- 2006
- 1 Item
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip062/2005031057.htmlItem details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWER 06-5667 Offsite The actor is present / KOFIC ; contributor wirter Kim Hyungseok [and nine others].
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- Seoul : Scrapbook, 2021.
- 2021
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PN1998.2 .A286 2021 vol.2 Off-site Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PN1998.2 .A286 2021 vol.1 Off-site Best actress : the history of Oscar-winning women / Stephen Tapert ; foreword by Roxane Gay.
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- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2020]
- 2020-2020
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWER+ 20-1653 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Best actress [electronic resource] : the history of Oscar-winning women / Stephen Tapert.
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- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2020]
- 2020
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African American actresses : the struggle for visibility, 1900-1960 / Charlene Regester.
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- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2010.
- 2010
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 10-1155 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
African American actresses [electronic resource] : the struggle for visibility, 1900-1960 / Charlene Regester.
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- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2010.
- 2010
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Dietrich : a biography / Ean Wood.
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- London : Sanctuary, 2002.
- 2002
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PN2658 .D5 W66 2002g Off-site Susan Sarandon : actress-activist / Marc Shapiro.
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- Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWES(Sarandon, S.) 03-1650 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Hollywood character actors / James Robert Parish, with Earl Anderson [and others] ; research associates, Robert A. Evans, William T. Leonard, Florence Solomon.
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- New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House, ©1978.
- 1978
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PN1998.A2P39177 Off-site --and Pran : a biography / Bunny Reuben.
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- New Delhi ; New York, N.Y. : HarperCollins Publishers India, a joint venture with India Today Group, New Delhi, 2005.
- 2005
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PN2888.P695 R48 2005 Off-site Siobhán : a memoir of an actress / Micheál Ó hAodha.
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- Dingle, Co. Kerry, Ireland : Brandon Book Publishers, 1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWES (McKenna, S.) 96-1201 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
John Wayne, the actor, the man / by George Bishop.
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- 1979
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PN2287.W454 B5 Off-site Hollywood character actors / James Robert Parish, with Earl Anderson ... [et al.] ; research associates, Robert A. Evans, William T. Leonard, Florence Solomon.
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- New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House, c1978.
- 1978
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWER 79-1576 Offsite Marilyn Monroe : a life of the actress / by Carl E. Rollyson, Jr.
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- Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, c1986.
- 1986
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWES (Monroe, M.) 86-5003 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Berry, Halle (Actress): clippings.
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Sc VF: Part 3 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference - Desk Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
--and Pran : a biography / Bunny Reuben.
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- New Delhi : New York, N.Y. : HarperCollins Publishers India, a joint venture with India Today Group, New Delhi, 2005.
- 2005
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWES (Pran) 05-5985 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Aamir Khan : actor, activist, achiever / Pradeep Chandra.
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- New Delhi : Niyogi Books, 2014.
- 2014
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PN1998.3.K43 C43 2014 Off-site Aamir Khan : actor, activist, achiever / Pradeep Chandra.
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- New Delhi : Niyogi Books, 2014.
- 2014
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PN1998.3.K486 C43 2014g Off-site All that she allows : star, actress, and Jimi Kim / [Korean Film Archive, Pusan International Film Festival].
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- [Seoul] : Korean Film Archive ; [Pusan] : Pusan International Film Festival, [2011?]
- 2011
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PN2938.K525 K8613 2011 Off-site Meena Kumari : the classic biography / Vinod Mehta.
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- Noida : HarperCollins Publishers India, 2013.
- 2013
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PN2888.M5 M44 2013 Off-site
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