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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.40 — 4,003,182 ratings — published 2017
The Star Machine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.06 — 897 ratings — published 2007
Bombshell: The Life and Death of Jean Harlow (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,011 ratings — published 1993
Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,841 ratings — published 1988
Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,184 ratings — published 2000
Ava Gardner: "Love is Nothing" (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,052 ratings — published 2006
Me: Stories of My Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.81 — 16,094 ratings — published 1991
Hollywood Babylon (Hollywood Babylon, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.66 — 6,724 ratings — published 1959
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.63 — 5,158 ratings — published 2014
Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.23 — 338 ratings — published 1999
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,495 ratings — published 2009
Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.08 — 700 ratings — published 1979
If This Was Happiness: A Biography of Rita Hayworth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.93 — 945 ratings — published 1989
Lulu in Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,828 ratings — published 1982
City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,141 ratings — published 1986
By Myself and Then Some (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,475 ratings — published 2005
Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,616 ratings — published 1989
Ava: My Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,080 ratings — published 1990
A Touch of Stardust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.65 — 5,291 ratings — published 2015
The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.67 — 4,614 ratings — published 2019
Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.16 — 794 ratings — published 1987
Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,313 ratings — published 2010
Marilyn Monroe: The Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,349 ratings — published 1993
Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.48 — 2,532 ratings — published 2014
Swanson on Swanson (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,265 ratings — published 1980
Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,695 ratings — published 2010
The Girl Who Walked Home Alone: A Personal Biography of Bette Davis (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,119 ratings — published 2006
High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,688 ratings — published 2009
Love, Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.27 — 12,240 ratings — published 1996
Ginger: My Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,014 ratings — published 1991
Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,485 ratings — published 2006
By Myself (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,881 ratings — published 1978
The Girls in the Picture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.64 — 8,286 ratings — published 2018
Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,169 ratings — published 2013
Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,382 ratings — published 2001
Silent Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.06 — 453 ratings — published 1999
Mommie Dearest (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.67 — 11,504 ratings — published 1978
Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.87 — 608 ratings — published 2007
Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,232 ratings — published 2000
Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,505 ratings — published 2003
Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.94 — 489 ratings — published 1996
Lana: the Lady, the Legend, the Truth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.92 — 704 ratings — published 1982
Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leigh (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,705 ratings — published 1987
Marlene Dietrich (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,459 ratings — published 1992
Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,208 ratings — published 2018
All the Stars in the Heavens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.60 — 13,919 ratings — published 2015
Child Star: An Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,342 ratings — published 1988
'Tis Herself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,966 ratings — published 2004
This Was Hollywood: Forgotten Stars and Stories (Turner Classic Movies)
by (shelved 14 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.22 — 877 ratings — published 2020
Marilyn Monroe : Private and Undisclosed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.01 — 886 ratings — published 2012
“Today...major actors and actresses develop their own projects or, at the very least, cherry-pick their roles carefully to suit not only their tastes but also whatever image they have cultivated to present to their public. Most major stars have their own production companies through which such projects are developed and even financed. While the biggest male stars of that time did in fact have their own production companies--Jimmy Stewart, Kirk Douglas, John Wayne, and Burt Lancaster, to name a few--and thus exerted creative and financial control over their careers, that was not the case with female stars. But Marilyn Monroe was about to change that.”
― The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
― The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
“...they had us working days and nights on end" Judy complained in McCall's. "They'd give us pep-up pills to keep us on our feet long after we were exhausted. Then they'd take us to the studio hospital and knock us cold with sleeping pills- Mickey sprawled out on one bed and me on another. Then after four hours they'd wake us up and give us the pep-up pills again so we could work another seventy-two hours in a row. Half of the time we were hanging from the ceiling, but it became a way of life for us.”
― Judy Garland
― Judy Garland
