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Filed under: Actors -- Biography A Star Danced (author died in 1952; c1945), by Gertrude Lawrence (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS) The Art of the Theatre (London: G. Bles, ca. 1924), by Sarah Bernhardt, trans. by H. J. Stenning, contrib. by James Agate (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Autobiography of Clara Fisher Maeder (New York; The Dunlap society, 1897), by Clara Fisher, ed. by Douglas Taylor (page images at HathiTrust) A Life of Charlotte Cushman (New York et al.: Brentano's, c1894), by W. T. Price (multiple formats at Google) Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (London: W. Heinemann, 1906), by Bram Stoker Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (revised and cheaper edition; London: W. Heinemann, 1907), by Bram Stoker A Society Clown: Reminiscences, by George Grossmith (Gutenberg text) Stage Confidences: Talks About Players and Play Acting (London: Charles H. Kelly, 1902), by Clara Morris (Gutenberg text)
Filed under: Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- BiographyFiled under: Actresses -- Great Britain -- BiographyFiled under: Actresses -- Ireland -- Biography Illustrious Irishwomen: Being Memoirs of Some of the Most Noted Irishwomen From the Earliest Ages to the Present Century (2 volumes; London: Tinsley Bros., 1877), by E. Owens Blackburne Filed under: Actors -- England -- BiographyFiled under: Actors -- France -- BiographyFiled under: Actors -- Great Britain -- Biography The Incomparable Siddons (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: Methuen and Co., 1909), by Florence Mary Wilson Parsons The Life and Correspondence of Charles Mathews, the Elder, Comedian (new edition, abridged and condensed; London and New York: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860), by Mrs. Mathews, ed. by Edmund Yates, contrib. by Charles Mathews (page images at HathiTrust) A Narrative of The Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, Youngest Daughter of Colley Cibber, Esq. Written by Herself (London: Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1829), by Charlotte Charke (multiple formats at archive.org) On the Stage- and Off (London: The Leadenhall Press; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, ca. 1891), by Jerome K. Jerome, illust. by Kenneth Skeaping (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com) On the Stage, and Off: The Brief Career of a Would Be Actor (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1891), by Jerome K. Jerome (page images at HathiTrust) Records of Later Life (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1882), by Fanny Kemble (Gutenberg text) The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1909), by Ellen Terry (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML) An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, by Colley Cibber Filed under: Actors -- United States -- Biography Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary (London: Pluto Press, c2016), by Gerald Horne Diary of a Daly Débutante: Being Passages From the Journal of A member of Augustin Daly's Famous Company of Players (New York: Duffield and Co., 1910), by Dora Knowlton Ranous
Filed under: African American actors -- Biography Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary (London: Pluto Press, c2016), by Gerald Horne
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Filed under: Actors The Paradox of Acting: Translated With Annotations From Diderot's "Paradoxe sur le Comédien" (London: Chatto and Windus, 1883), by Denis Diderot, ed. by Walter Herries Pollock, contrib. by Henry Irving (multiple formats at archive.org) Plays, Acting and Music: A Book of Theory (revised edition; London: Constable and Co., 1909), by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg text) Stage-Land, by Jerome K. Jerome (Gutenberg text) Stage-Land (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1906), by Jerome K. Jerome, illust. by Bernard Partridge (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com) Shadows of the Stage (New York and London: Macmillan, 1893), by William Winter (Gutenberg text)
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Filed under: Actors -- Fiction No Great Magic (as published in Galaxy magazine, 1963), by Fritz Leiber (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images) A Maid of Many Moods (Toronto: Copp Clark Co., 1902), by Virna Sheard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML) Without the Limelight: Theatrical Life As It Is (London: Chatto and Windus, 1900), by George R. Sims (page images at HathiTrust) The Actor-Manager (Works of Leonard Merrick edition; London et al: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Leonard Merrick, contrib. by William Dean Howells (multiple formats at archive.org) The Comedienne (c1920), by Władyslaw Stanisław Reymont, trans. by Edmund Obecny (Gutenberg text) Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise (2 volumes; New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1917), by David Graham Phillips
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Filed under: Motion picture actors and actresses Behind the Screen (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1923), by Samuel Goldwyn
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