Based on her personal archive of over 35,000 pages of documents - including letters, diaries, billets doux and suicide notes - as well as extensive interviews with friends and colleagues, this biography of Marilyn Monroe rejects many myths about her dramatic childhood, her marriages, and her relationships with Hollywood moguls, politicians, poets, artists and statesmen. It also offers evidence of the truth behind her death.

The play, "Look Back in Anger" changed Alan Bates' life. He also worked in television and won international acclaim for his roles in a number of major films, from "A Kind of Loving" to "Zorba the Greek". But his personal life was turbulent. This work chronicles Alan's achievements as a performer against the backdrop of a complicated personal life.

'Spellbound by Beauty' examines Alfred Hitchcock's well-known collaborations with the leading ladies of his day, and, in so doing, delves into Hitchcock's creative life and his uniquely curious professional and personal relationships.

Joan Crawford was a complex, contradictory, driven human being, but not the alcoholic, sadistic monster depicted in the notorious book, "Mommie Dearest", which appeared a year after her death. This title offers an account of a young woman, poor, abandoned by her father, but determined at all costs to succeed.