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"
Me: Stories of My Life
Hollywood Babylon (Hollywood Babylon, #1)
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
Self-Portrait
If This Was Happiness: A Biography of Rita Hayworth
Lulu in Hollywood
City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s
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
164 books — 116 voters
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
19 books — 30 voters

Veronica by Veronica LakePeekaboo by Jeff Lenburg
Veronica Lake books
2 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


Women were never absent from film history; they often simply weren’t documented as part of it because they did “
Erin Hill, Never Done: A History of Women's Work in Media Production

For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable terror that I deteriorated into a wild, frightened creature intent only on survival. And I survived. I was raped by orderlies, gnawed on by rats and poisoned by tainted food. I was chained in padded cells, strapped into strait-jackets and half-drowned in ice baths. And I survived. The asylum itself was a steel trap, and I was not released from its jaws alive and victorious. I cra ...more
Frances Farmer, Will There Really Be a Morning?

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