Old Hollywood


The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Star Machine
Bombshell: The Life and Death of Jean Harlow
Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild
Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood
Ava Gardner: "Love is Nothing"
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
Hollywood Babylon (Hollywood Babylon, #1)
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood
Me: Stories of My Life
If This Was Happiness: A Biography of Rita Hayworth
City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s
Self-Portrait
By Myself and Then Some
Everlasting by Carol JohnsonThe Silent Treatment by Melanie SuraniThe Girls in the Picture by Melanie BenjaminBride of the Rat God by Barbara HamblyLast Dance with Valentino by Daisy Waugh
Novels About Silent Movies
21 books — 37 voters
The Only Woman in the Room by Marie BenedictBeautiful Invention by Margaret  PorterGuidebook to the Marvel Cinematic Universe - Marvel's Agent C... by Michael O'SullivanHedy's Folly by Richard RhodesBeautiful by Stephen Michael Shearer
Hedy Lamarr
21 books — 2 voters

Bombshell by David StennFilms of Jean Harlow by Michael ConwayPlatinum Girl by Eve GoldenDeadly Illusions by Samuel MarxHarlow in Hollywood by Darrell Rooney
Books about Jean Harlow
12 books — 3 voters
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins ReidA Touch of Stardust by Kate AlcottAll the Stars in the Heavens by Adriana TrigianiThe Garden on Sunset by Martin TurnbullThe Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
Hollywood Historical Fiction
175 books — 126 voters

A Star Is Born by Ronald HaverBy Myself and Then Some by Lauren BacallLulu in Hollywood by Louise BrooksFurious Love by Sam KashnerWhat Falls Away by Mia Farrow
you must remember this
19 books — 1 voter
Veronica by Veronica LakePeekaboo by Jeff Lenburg
Veronica Lake books
2 books — 2 voters

Barry Paris
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. ...more
Barry Paris, Garbo

...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 ...more
Anne Edwards, Judy Garland

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