Charles Higham Books

Charles Higham presents a readable and often witty account of a golden age in archaeological excavation in Thailand.

Now, for the first time, Marlon Brando's larger-than-life story is revealed in this uncompromising, intimate, and definitive account by bestselling Hollywood biographer Charles Higham. 2-week serial in National Enquirer.

The recent death of America's most famous matriarch signals the end of an amazing era. Now, drawing on hundreds of recently declassified documents, and with the cooperation of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's relatives, among others, New York Times bestselling author Charles Higham chronicles the life of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy in this dramatic, moving biography. During her times of glory, agony and ecstasy, Rose gave birth to nine children and to an unforgettable vision of the American Dream. Deeply religious, intensely ambitious for her family, she moved through fascinating worlds: politics, big business, England as the American ambassador's wife, Hollywood, high society, and Washington's inner circles. The tragic deaths of four of her children never shook her faith; she believed despite the worst that God always held her in his hands.

Katharine Hepburn first authorized Higham to interview her closest friends and colleagues about her career, life, and behind-the-scenes romantic involvements from Leland Hayward to Spencer Tracy. And in this vivid portrait, she herself tells the deeply moving story of her 25-year love affair with Tracy.

Wallis, the Duchess of Windsor, was one of the most famous women in history, the American divorcee who captured the King of England, Edward VIII, and cost him his throne. Until Charles Higham's 1.3 million-copy bestseller, much of her life was a glamorous mystery. Now, fifteen years later, major new documentary evidence, classified at the time, makes for a book far more sensational than the original bestseller. Drawing from long-suppressed archives in France, England, and the United States, Higham has uncovered the duchess's passionate affair with a top-ranking political figure, the duke's romantic involvement with a male equerry, the secret radio broadcasts the couple made to Hitler, and the blackmail plot in Paris that almost brought them--and the British royal family--to ruin. This updated new edition of The Duchess of Windsor is essential reading.

Extensively documented and filled with illuminating comments from Grant's fellow actors, friends, and associates, The Lonely Heart is a fascinating and controversial portrait of an elegant, tormented man, Cary Grant.

George Cukor, famous for his direction of the great screen actresses of our day, tells of working with Garbo, Hepburn, Monroe, Garland .... Alfred Hitchcock describes with obvious relish, the technical tricks involved in making The Birds .... King Vidor explains what it was like to work for the great and difficult producer David O. Selznick . . . . Fritz Lang expounds on the dark brooding themes that run throughout his films .... From these fifteen directors emerges a candid, comprehensive portrait of Hollywood from the Talkies through the Sixties - the stars, the moguls, the producers, the studios, and the films themselves. A feast of inside information for movie buffs or for anyone who has ever lost his heart to THE CELLULOID MUSE. "No film fan worthy of the name will put it down." -John Russell Taylor, Sight and Sound