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Old Hollywood Books
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,923,954 ratings — published 2017
The Star Machine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.06 — 889 ratings — published 2007
Bombshell: The Life and Death of Jean Harlow (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,006 ratings — published 1993
Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,832 ratings — published 1988
Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,179 ratings — published 2000
Ava Gardner: "Love is Nothing" (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,047 ratings — published 2006
Me: Stories of My Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.81 — 16,062 ratings — published 1991
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.63 — 5,133 ratings — published 2014
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,459 ratings — published 2009
Hollywood Babylon (Hollywood Babylon, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.66 — 6,593 ratings — published 1959
Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.23 — 338 ratings — published 1999
Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.08 — 697 ratings — published 1979
If This Was Happiness: A Biography of Rita Hayworth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.93 — 932 ratings — published 1989
City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,127 ratings — published 1986
By Myself and Then Some (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,448 ratings — published 2005
Ava: My Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,067 ratings — published 1990
Lulu in Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,823 ratings — published 1982
Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,614 ratings — published 1989
A Touch of Stardust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.65 — 5,271 ratings — published 2015
Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.16 — 774 ratings — published 1987
The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.67 — 4,542 ratings — published 2019
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 — 2,518 ratings — published 2014
Swanson on Swanson (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,260 ratings — published 1980
Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,289 ratings — published 2010
Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,605 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 — 1,118 ratings — published 2006
Marilyn Monroe: The Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,335 ratings — published 1993
High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,682 ratings — published 2009
Love, Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.27 — 12,139 ratings — published 1996
Ginger: My Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,011 ratings — published 1991
Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,465 ratings — published 2006
Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,154 ratings — published 2013
Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,379 ratings — published 2001
By Myself (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,877 ratings — published 1978
The Girls in the Picture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.64 — 8,233 ratings — published 2018
Mommie Dearest (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.67 — 11,442 ratings — published 1978
Silent Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.07 — 449 ratings — published 1999
Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,217 ratings — published 2000
Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,489 ratings — published 2003
Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.93 — 484 ratings — published 1996
Lana: the Lady, the Legend, the Truth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.91 — 697 ratings — published 1982
Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leigh (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,702 ratings — published 1987
Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.87 — 604 ratings — published 2007
Marlene Dietrich (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,445 ratings — published 1992
All the Stars in the Heavens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.59 — 13,828 ratings — published 2015
Child Star: An Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,336 ratings — published 1988
'Tis Herself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,877 ratings — published 2004
This Was Hollywood: Forgotten Stars and Stories (Turner Classic Movies)
by (shelved 14 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.22 — 866 ratings — published 2020
Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,192 ratings — published 2018
Marilyn Monroe : Private and Undisclosed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.01 — 880 ratings — published 2012
“...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
“Women were never absent from film history; they often simply weren’t documented as part of it because they did “”
― Never Done: A History of Women's Work in Media Production
― Never Done: A History of Women's Work in Media Production
