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Old Hollywood Books
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.40 — 4,017,334 ratings — published 2017
The Star Machine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.06 — 901 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 36 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,185 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 — 16,088 ratings — published 1991
Hollywood Babylon (Hollywood Babylon, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.66 — 6,745 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 — 5,163 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 — 5,501 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 — 946 ratings — published 1989
Lulu in Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,829 ratings — published 1982
City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,144 ratings — published 1986
By Myself and Then Some (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,479 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 — 2,079 ratings — published 1990
A Touch of Stardust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.65 — 5,294 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 — 4,637 ratings — published 2019
Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.16 — 796 ratings — published 1987
Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,318 ratings — published 2010
Marilyn Monroe: The Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,351 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 — 2,536 ratings — published 2014
Swanson on Swanson (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,266 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 — 4,703 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
High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,691 ratings — published 2009
Love, Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.27 — 12,259 ratings — published 1996
Ginger: My Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,015 ratings — published 1991
Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,491 ratings — published 2006
By Myself (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,879 ratings — published 1978
The Girls in the Picture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.64 — 8,294 ratings — published 2018
Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,172 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 — 11,515 ratings — published 1978
Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.86 — 610 ratings — published 2007
Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,233 ratings — published 2000
Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,504 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 — 1,707 ratings — published 1987
Marlene Dietrich (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,467 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 — 13,931 ratings — published 2015
Child Star: An Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,345 ratings — published 1988
'Tis Herself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,976 ratings — published 2004
This Was Hollywood: Forgotten Stars and Stories (Turner Classic Movies)
by (shelved 14 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.22 — 878 ratings — published 2020
Marilyn Monroe : Private and Undisclosed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.01 — 886 ratings — published 2012
“Women were never absent from film history; they often simply weren’t documented as part of it because they did “women's work”, which was—by definition— insignificant, tedious, low status, and noncreative. In the golden age of Hollywood, women could be found in nearly every department of every studio, minding the details that might otherwise get in the way of more important, prestigious, or creative work (a.k.a. men's work).
If film historians consider the classical Hollywood era’s mode of production a system, we ought to consider women this system’s main-stay, because studios were built on their low-cost backs and scaled through their brush and keystrokes.”
― Never Done: A History of Women's Work in Media Production
If film historians consider the classical Hollywood era’s mode of production a system, we ought to consider women this system’s main-stay, because studios were built on their low-cost backs and scaled through their brush and keystrokes.”
― Never Done: A History of Women's Work in Media Production
“She ran her own train. She didn't feel she had to get married, she wore her hair and makeup the way she wanted to, she furnished her home the way she wanted to, she did everything the way she wanted to.”
― Garbo
― Garbo
