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Hollywood History Books
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The Star Machine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 893 ratings — published 2007
Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,206 ratings — published 2018
City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,136 ratings — published 1986
The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 3.67 — 4,585 ratings — published 2019
Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,130 ratings — published 2014
The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,748 ratings — published 2020
Hitchcock's Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director's Dark Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 3.42 — 1,248 ratings — published 2023
George Hurrell's Hollywood: Glamour Portraits 1925-1992 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 4.55 — 111 ratings — published
The Purple Diaries: Mary Astor and the Most Sensational Hollywood Scandal of the 1930s (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,297 ratings — published 2016
Hollywood Black: The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers (Turner Classic Movies)
by (shelved 3 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 155 ratings — published 2019
Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 338 ratings — published 1999
Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 220 ratings — published 2005
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,616 ratings — published 2019
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 4,808 ratings — published 2008
The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 682 ratings — published 1988
Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 700 ratings — published 1998
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 3.63 — 5,152 ratings — published 2014
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,398 ratings — published 1998
The Making of The African Queen Or How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and almost lost my mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,487 ratings — published 1987
Dark City Dames: The Wicked Women of Film Noir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 306 ratings — published 2001
Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,056 ratings — published 2025
More than Night: Film Noir in its Contexts (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 272 ratings — published 1998
Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 381 ratings — published
It's Alive! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 430 ratings — published
Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 54 ratings — published 1997
Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 617 ratings — published 2023
Some Time in the Sun: The Hollywood Years of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Nathanael West, Aldous Huxley and James Agee (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 3.79 — 58 ratings — published 1975
Moving Pictures: Memories of a Hollywood Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 152 ratings — published 1981
Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 72 ratings — published 2011
Charlie Chaplin and His Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 105 ratings — published 1997
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 386,393 ratings — published 2022
Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 3.59 — 2,572 ratings — published 2019
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,801 ratings — published 2022
Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 3.73 — 233 ratings — published 2022
Brat: An '80s Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 3.61 — 15,523 ratings — published 2021
Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,601 ratings — published 2022
The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,258 ratings — published 2019
The Bad and the Beautiful: Hollywood in the Fifties (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 3.68 — 160 ratings — published 2002
Nobody's Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 3.64 — 72 ratings — published 2018
Bring on the Empty Horses (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,365 ratings — published 1975
Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 157 ratings — published 2020
Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street (Collins Business Essentials)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 302 ratings — published 1982
Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,670 ratings — published 2010
Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven's Gate, the Film That Sank United Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 996 ratings — published 1985
Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 3.48 — 2,529 ratings — published 2014
Fireball: Carole Lombard and the Mystery of Flight 3 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,422 ratings — published 2014
Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,838 ratings — published 1988
An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 775 ratings — published 1988
Independent Stardom: Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 3.67 — 15 ratings — published 2015
A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hollywood-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 217 ratings — published 1993
