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• A Star Danced (author died in 1952; c1945), by Gertrude Lawrence (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Men, Marriage and Me (New York: Macauley Co., 1930), by Peggy Hopkins Joyce (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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
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• Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (revised and cheaper edition; London: W. Heinemann, 1907), by Bram Stoker
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• 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)
• Nat Goodwin's book (R. G. Badger, 1914), by Nat. C. Goodwin and Rogers Memorial Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Driftwood of the stage (Winn & Hammond, 1904), by William Ellis Horton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the stage : my personal experiences and recollections (McClure, Phillips, 1901), by Clara Morris, Edward Robins, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, and National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stage confidences; talks about players and play acting (Lothrop plublishing company, 1902), by Clara Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The stage, or, Recollections of actors and acting from an experience of fifty years (J.M. Stoddart & co., 1880), by James Edward Murdoch and J. Bunting (page images at HathiTrust)
• Macready's reminiscences, and selections from his diaries and letters. (Macmillan and co., 1875), by William Charles Macready and Frederick Pollock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tyrone Power (Moffat, Yard and Co., 1913), by William Winter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The melancholy tale of "me"; my remembrances (C. Scribner's Sons, 1916), by E. H. Sothern (page images at HathiTrust)
• The theatres of Paris (Galignani and co.;, 1846), by Charles Hervey, Benno Loewy, and Alexandre Lacauchie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories of fifty years (Charles Scribner's sons, 1889), by Lester Wallack and Laurence Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Other days; being chronicles and memories of the stage (Moffat, Yard and company, 1908), by William Winter (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Remembrances : the melancholy tale of "me" (Cassell, 1917), by E. H. Sothern (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leaves from an actor's note-book; with reminiscences and chit-chat of the green-room and the stage, in England and America. (D. Appleton and Company, 1860), by George Vandenhoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Boston museum days (Little, Brown, and company, 1915), by Kate Ryan (page images at HathiTrust)
• "The greatest of these--" (George H. Doran Company, 1918), by Laurette Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and writings of T.W. Robertson. (R. Bentley and son, 1893), by T. Edgar Pemberton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theatrical anecdotes, or Fun and curiosities of the play, the playhouse, and the players (Chatto and Windus, 1882), by Jacob Larwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The actor's heritage : scenes from the theatre of yesterday and the day before (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1924), by Walter Prichard Eaton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hours with the players (Chatto and Windus, 1881), by Dutton Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Corney Grain. (J. Murray, 1888), by Corney Grain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schauspielerleben im achtzehnten Jahrhundert (W. Langewiesche-Brandt, 1912), by Joseph Anton Christ and Rudolf Schirmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Derwent story: my first fifty years in the theatre in England and America. (H. Schuman, 1953), by Clarence Derwent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Once a clown, always a clown : reminiscences of DeWolf Hopper (Boston : Little, Brown, 1927., 1927), by De Wolf Hopper and Wesley Winans Stout (page images at HathiTrust)
• Problems of the actor (H. Holt and company, 1918), by Louis Calvert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections and wanderings of Paul Bedford. Facts, not fancies. (Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, 1864), by Paul John Bedford (page images at HathiTrust)
• An apology for the life of George Ann Bellamy, late of Covent-Garden theatre. (The author, 1785), by Geroge Anne Bellamy and Alexander Bicknell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The memoirs of J. Decastro, comedian. In the course of them will be given anecdotes of various eminently distinguished characters... Amongst others are Dr. Johnson, Garrick, Foote,...accompanied by an analysis of the life of the late Philip Astley. Also an accompanying History of the Royal circus, now the Surrey theatre; and an historical sketch of Sadler's Wells. Likewise scarce theatrical advertisements, from Garrick's first attempt in Goodman's-Fields... To which will be added The origin of poetry; A chapter on Bent's, &c.... (Sherwood, Jones, & co., 1824), by Jacob DeCastro and R. Humphreys (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections of an actor (J. Maxwell and Company, 1865), by W. Donaldson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nine years of an actor's life. (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & co.; [etc., etc.], 1833), by Robert Dyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The stage reminiscences of Mrs. Gilbert (C. Scribner's Sons, 1901), by Anne Hartley Gilbert and Charlotte M. Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Playing about; or Theatrical anecdotes and adventures, with scenes of general nature, from the life; in England, Scotland, and Ireland (The author, sold by W. Sams, 1840), by Benson E. Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gossip dramatic, narrative and descriptive from the recollections of an actor in Australia, New Zealand, the Sandwich Islands, California, Nevada, Central America and New York (Hurst and Blackett, 1880), by Edmund John Leathes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections of a player (Printed at the De Vinne Press, 1897), by Francis Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Znamenitye aktery i aktrisy v kharakteristikakh, vospominanii︠a︡kh i anekdotakh (880-04 S.-Peterburg : Tipografīi︠a︡ br. Panteleevykh, 1902., 1902), by A. V. Shvyrov and S.S. Trubachev (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The reminiscences of Thomas Dibdin, of the Theatres Royal, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, Haymarket, &c. and author of The Cabinet, &c. (Henry Colburn, 1837), by Thomas Dibdin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Myself and others (Hutchinson, 1923), by Jessie Millward and J. B. Booth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty years of make-believe (The International press syndicate (M.M.Marcy), 1920), by Frederick B. Warde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Keeping off the shelf (E.P. Dutton & Co., inc., 1928), by Blanche Whiffen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Erinnerungen an Josephine Wessely (E. Peterson, 1887), by Louise Meiche (page images at HathiTrust)
• Komödianten-fahrten. Erinnerungen und studien (Verlag der Königlichen geheimen Ober-hofbuchdruckerei (R. v. Decker), 1875), by Karoline Bauer and Arnold Wellmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caroline Bauer and the Coburgs. (London, 1887), by Karoline Bauer and Charles Nisbet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aus dem Komödiantenleben des vorigen Jahrhunderts. (F.A. Brockhaus, 1873), by Karoline Schulze-Kummerfeld and Hermann Uhde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cues and curtain calls; being the theatrical reminiscences of H. Chance Newton ("Carados" of the Referee) (John Lane, 1927), by H. Chance Newton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pleasures and palaces; illustrated with drawings by John Wolcott Adams and with photographs. (E. Nash, 1916), by Eleanor Hulda Calhoun Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich (page images at HathiTrust)
• The truth at last from Charles Hawtrey (T. Butterworth ltd., 1924), by Charles Hawtrey and W. Somerset Maugham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Footprints and echoes (E.P. Dutton & Company, 1927), by William H. Crane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rutland Barrington, a record of thirty-five years' experience on the English stage (G. Richards, 1908), by Rutland Barrington (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mr. & Mrs. Bancroft on and off the stage (R. Bentley and Son, 1888), by Squire Bancroft and Marie Effie Wilton Bancroft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Up the years from Bloomsbury; an autobiography. (Little, Brown, and company, 1928), by George Arliss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Both sides of the curtain (Cassell and Company, ltd., 1918), by Genevieve Ward and Richard Whiteing (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aus der grossen zeit des deutschen theaters; schauspielermemoiren (E. Rentsch, 1911), by Arthur Eloesser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aus dem Tagebuche eines alten Schauspielers (Voigt & Günther, 1862), by Eduard Franz Genast (page images at HathiTrust)
• The secrets of a showman (W. Heinemann ltd., 1925), by C. B. Cochran and Morrison and Gibb (page images at HathiTrust)
• So laugh a little (Messner, 1962), by Molly Picon and Eth Clifford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The reminiscences of Thomas Dibdin, of the theatres royal, Covent-Garden, Drury-Lane, Haymarket, &c., and author of The cabinet, &c. ... (H. Colburn, 1827), by Thomas Dibdin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Macready's reminiscences (Harper, 1875), by William Charles Macready and Frederick Pollock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty years on the stage : others (principally) and myself (E. P. Dutton & company, 1915), by J. H. Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mr. & Mrs. Bancroft on and off the stage (R. Bentley, 1888), by Squire Bancroft and Marie Effie Wilton Bancroft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mr. & Mrs. Bancroft on and off the stage (R. Bentley, 1891), by Squire Bancroft and Marie Effie Wilton Bancroft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Un comédien à travers le monde (Impr. C. Lambert, 1883), by Adrien Victor Bouvard and Alphonse Momas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Filmland favorites; being the autographed photographs with biographical sketches of the leading photo play stars. (American Publishing Co., 1915) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bis ins Burgtheater. (Hans Sachs-Verlag, 1914), by Heinrich Prechtler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clowning through life (E.P. Dutton, 1928), by Eddie Foy and Alvin F. Harlow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty years of an actor's life; or Thespian gleanings (T. H. Lacy, 1858), by W. Donaldson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stage reminiscences : being recollections, chiefly personal, of celebrated theatrical & musical performers during the last forty years. (J. Hedderwick & son, printers to the Queen, 1866), by Matthew Mackintosh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scenes from the life of an actor. (Garrett & co., 1853), by George Handel Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• An apology for the life of George Anne Bellamy, late of Covent-Garden theatre. (Printed for the author, and sold by J. Bell, 1786), by George Anne Bellamy and Alexander Bicknell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty years of an actors̓ life. (J. Pott, 1904), by John Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theatrical biography : or, The life of an actor and manager; interspersed with sketches, anecdotes, and opinions of the professional merits of the most celebrated actors and actresses of our day (R. Griffin, 1848), by Francis Courtney Wemyss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gleanings from "On and off the stage" (Routledge, 1892), by Marie Effie Wilton Bancroft and Squire Bancroft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theater tonight. (House-Warven, 1952), by Luke Cosgrave (page images at HathiTrust)
• Empty chairs (J Murray, 1925), by Squire Bancroft (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of my life; recollections and reflections (The McClure Company, 1908), by Ellen Terry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires de mistriss Bellamy, actrice du Théâtre de Covent-Garden, avec une notice sur sa vie par M. Thiers. (Ponthieu, 1822), by George Anne Bellamy and Adolphe Thiers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Denkwürdigkeiten des schauspielers, schauspieldichters und schauspieldirectors Friedrich Ludwig Schmidt (1772-1841). Nach hinterlassenen entwürfen zusammengestellt und herausgegeben (W. Mauke söhne, 1990), by F. L. Schmidt and Hermann Uhde (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Footlights and spotlights; recollections of my life on the stage (Blue Ribbon Books, 1924), by Otis Skinner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The house of Sothern, and Miss Julia Marlowe (s.n., 1907), by Austin Brereton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Derwent story: (H. Schuman, 1953), by Clarence Derwent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lebenserinnerungen. (Vossische Buchhandlung, 1907), by Hans Blum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The truth at last (Little, Brown, 1924), by Charles Hawtrey and W. Somerset Maugham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Et liv genoplevet i erindrigen (Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1904), by Johanne Luise Heiberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leben der Sophie Můller, weiland k.k. Hofschauspielerinn, und nachgelassene Papiere. (Gedruckt bey F. Ullrich, 1832), by János Nepomuk Jozsef Mailáth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hvad jeg oplevede. (V. Pios boghandel, 1911), by Johan Holm-Hansen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Julie Weber Sødring, født Rosenkilde: erindringer fra min barndom og ungdom (Gyldendal, 1894), by Julie Weber Rosenkilde Sødring and Marius F. Sødring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fünfzehn jahre in Weimar : Erlebtes und erlittenes. ([s.n., 1892), by Heinrich Grans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heinrich Anschütz. Erinnerungen aus dessen Leben und wirken. Nach eigenhändigen Aufzeichnungen und mündlichen Mitteilungen. (P. Reclam jun., 1900), by Heinrich Anschütz and Roderich Anschütz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Am hofe der kunst (Grethlein & co., g. m. b. n., 1918), by Max Grube (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memories of an old actor. (Scholarly Press, 1969), by Walter Moore Leman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Souvenirs de la vie de théâtre ... (P. Lafitte & cie, 1914), by Pierre Berton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Boston museum days (Little, Brown, and company, 1915), by Kate Ryan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the stage; my personal experiences and recollections. (McClure, Phillips & co., 1901), by Clara Morris, Carrie Chapman Catt, and National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the players (Hamilton, Adams ;, 1886), by John Galt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of the life of Edmund Kean, Esq. including the account of Mr. Kean's present visit to America : carefully compiled from authentic sources and interspersed with anecdotes. (s.n.], 1826) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Was ich erlebte, 1846-1896. (R. Bong, 1897), by Friedrich Haase (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aus Weimars klassischer und nachklassischer Zeit. Erinnerungen eines alten Schauspielers (R. Lutz, 1904), by Eduard Genast (page images at HathiTrust)
• Souvenirs de Frédérick Lemaître (P. Ollendorff, 1880), by Frédérick Lemaître, Frédérick Lemaître, and Frédéric Lemaître (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rachel (Roberts Bros., 1895), by Nina H. Kennard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personal reminiscences, by O'Keefe, Kelly, and Taylor (Scribner, Armstrong, and Company, 1875), by John O'Keeffe, Richard Henry Stoddard, John Taylor, and Michael Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires de Samson, de la Comédie-française. (P. Ollendorff, 1882), by Joseph-Isidore Samson, Mme. Toussaint-Samson, and Mme. Toussaint-Samson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Denkwürdigkeiten des Schauspielers, Schauspieldichters und Schauspieldirectors Friedrich Ludwig Schmidt (1772-1841). Nach hinterlassenen Entwürfen zusammengestellt und herausgegeben (J.G. Cotta, 1878), by F. L. Schmidt and Hermann Uhde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Åltestes, alleråltestes. (B. Cassirer, 1904), by Emil Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The actors' birthday book. [First]-third series. An authoritative insight into the lives of the men and women of the stage born between January first and December thirty-first. (Moffat, Yard and Company, 1907), by Johnson Briscoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• From school to stage (Collier & Co., 1907), by Phyllis Dare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seymour Hicks : twenty-four years of an actor's life (John Lane Co., 1911), by Seymour Hicks (page images at HathiTrust)
• My actor-husband. (John Lane company, 1912) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The "Queen of the drama!" Mary Anderson: her life on and off the stage. Together with select recitations from all the great plays in which she has delighted two continents. (Williams & Co., 1885), by Henry Llewellyn Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hamburger Theater-Dekamerone. (F. W. Rademacher, 1881), by Adolf Philipp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben (Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei a.-g. (vorm. J.F. Richter), 1901), by Ferdinand von Strantz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memoiren der Londoner Schauspielerin Georgia Anna Bellamy (Raben, 1914), by George Anne Bellamy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lebenserinnerungen (O. Elsner, 1900), by Hans Blum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mein Künstlerleben. Was ich mit dem Kaiser erlebte und andere Erinnerungen. (J. C. Huber, 1920), by Ferdinand Bonn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memoirer. (Levin & Munksgaard, 1919), by Gerda Christophersen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Emlékeim. (Singer es Wolfner, 1912), by Ilka Kinszky (page images at HathiTrust)
• My private diary (Occult publishing company, 1929), by Rudolph Valentino (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Blondes, brunettes, and bullets (D. McKay Co., 1957), by Nils Thor Granlund (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Footlights and spotlights : recollections of my life on the stage (Blue Ribbon Books, 1931), by Otis Skinner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Harpo speaks! (B. Geis Associates; distributed by Random House, 1961), by Harpo Marx (page images at HathiTrust)
• Från mitt teaterlift; minnen, silhuetter och anekdoter (Bonnier, 1898), by Adolf Klemens Hellander (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dark side of an actor's life. (s.n., 1896), by Charles G. Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autobiography of an eccentric comedian. (Everett & co., ltd., 1912), by T. E. Dunville (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lebensreise im Komödiantenwagen; Erinnerungen einer Schauspielerin ... (G. Müller, 1928), by Olga Heydecker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vom nachtwächter zum türkischen kaiser! Bühnen-erlebnisse aus dem tagebuche eines uninteressanten (Helwing'sche hofbuchhandlung (Th. Mierzinsky), 1876), by Carl Sontag (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exits and entrances (F.A. Stokes, 1923), by Eva Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lexikon des Films (Verlag der Lichtbildbühne, 1926), by Kurt Muḧsam and Egon Jacobsohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Empty chairs, by Squire Bancroft (Gutenberg ebook)
• Memories of My Life: Being My Personal, Professional, and Social Recollections as Woman and Artist, by Sarah Bernhardt (Gutenberg ebook)
• Exits and Entrances, by Eva Moore (Gutenberg ebook)
• William E. Burton: Actor, Author, and Manager: A Sketch of his Career with Recollections of his Performances, by William L. Keese (Gutenberg ebook)
• Life on the Stage: My Personal Experiences and Recollections, by Clara Morris (Gutenberg ebook)

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