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The Secrets of Filming Swallows & Amazons (1974)
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4.38 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Rebecca
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4.25 avg rating — 740,454 ratings
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The Great Gatsby
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3.93 avg rating — 6,016,863 ratings
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Wuthering Heights
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3.90 avg rating — 2,219,994 ratings
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Spencer Tracy
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4.08 avg rating — 445 ratings
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Bombshell: The Life and Death of Jean Harlow
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4.10 avg rating — 1,013 ratings
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Cary Grant: A Biography
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3.71 avg rating — 2,381 ratings
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Cagney by Cagney: An Autobiography
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4.04 avg rating — 461 ratings
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The Star Machine
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4.05 avg rating — 923 ratings
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Hollywood Babylon (Hollywood Babylon, #1)
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3.65 avg rating — 7,060 ratings
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Memo from David O. Selznick
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4.14 avg rating — 244 ratings
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,364,731 ratings
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Norma Shearer
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4.19 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Swanson on Swanson
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4.14 avg rating — 1,278 ratings
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Ava Gardner: "Love is Nothing"
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3.95 avg rating — 2,061 ratings
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City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s
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4.10 avg rating — 1,172 ratings
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Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema; 1930-1934
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 226 ratings
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The Sound of Silence: Conversations with 16 Film and Stage Personalities Who Bridged the Gap Between Silents and Talkies
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3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Little Women
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4.17 avg rating — 2,498,313 ratings
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Vivien Leigh: A Biography
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4.01 avg rating — 1,507 ratings
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Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming
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4.17 avg rating — 806 ratings
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HEDY'S FOLLY the Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
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3.18 avg rating — 3,417 ratings
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Paul Newman: A Life
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3.86 avg rating — 1,792 ratings
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Clark Gable: A Biography
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4.01 avg rating — 937 ratings
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Robert Mitchum: "Baby I Don't Care"
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4.12 avg rating — 790 ratings
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Without Empathy: Irony and the Satirical Impulse in Eight Major Filmmakers
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4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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By Myself
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,890 ratings
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The Garner Files: A Memoir
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3.90 avg rating — 3,266 ratings
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The Million Dollar Mermaid
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3.88 avg rating — 1,949 ratings
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Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
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4.26 avg rating — 4,899 ratings
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Hollywood: The Pioneers
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4.44 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince
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4.39 avg rating — 174 ratings
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A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film
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4.44 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant
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3.66 avg rating — 1,568 ratings
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Garbo: Her Story
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3.24 avg rating — 169 ratings
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Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood
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3.99 avg rating — 183 ratings
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Jamaica Inn
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3.90 avg rating — 61,771 ratings
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The Parade's Gone By...
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4.38 avg rating — 757 ratings
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Oliver Twist
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3.88 avg rating — 432,444 ratings
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Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild
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4.12 avg rating — 1,874 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 509,784 ratings
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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4.20 avg rating — 787,433 ratings
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Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood
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4.01 avg rating — 1,206 ratings
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Dana Andrews: Hollywood Enigma
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3.75 avg rating — 103 ratings
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The Talkies: American Cinema's Transition to Sound, 1926-1931
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4.12 avg rating — 34 ratings
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An Affair to Remember: The Remarkable Love Story of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy
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4.02 avg rating — 1,284 ratings
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A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940
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3.71 avg rating — 590 ratings
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Shelley also Known as Shirley
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3.90 avg rating — 553 ratings
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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 170,825 ratings
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
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3.85 avg rating — 254,082 ratings
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I Do and I Don't: A History of Marriage in the Movies
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3.25 avg rating — 213 ratings
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Frank: The Voice
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4.14 avg rating — 2,627 ratings
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Heidi (Heidi, #1-2)
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4.04 avg rating — 212,928 ratings
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Gone with the Wind
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4.31 avg rating — 1,263,603 ratings
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Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics
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3.95 avg rating — 74 ratings
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The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock
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3.87 avg rating — 1,633 ratings
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 518,551 ratings
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.26 avg rating — 6,990,677 ratings
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Classic Hollywood Style
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4.06 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
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3.54 avg rating — 5,062 ratings
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Golden Images: 41 Essays on Silent Film Stars
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4.14 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Astaires: Fred & Adele
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3.72 avg rating — 334 ratings
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Tony and Me: A Story of Friendship
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4.19 avg rating — 217 ratings
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People Will Talk
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4.26 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Les Misérables
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4.21 avg rating — 852,367 ratings
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The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930
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4.26 avg rating — 276 ratings
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Jimmy Stewart: A Biography
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3.85 avg rating — 1,268 ratings
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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4.12 avg rating — 529,214 ratings
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Warren William: Magnificent Scoundrel of Pre-Code Hollywood
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4.12 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Birds and Other Stories
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4.06 avg rating — 15,466 ratings
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Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director
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3.88 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud
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4.19 avg rating — 2,641 ratings
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Treasure Island
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3.85 avg rating — 547,500 ratings
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Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr
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3.51 avg rating — 493 ratings
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Who the Hell's in It: Conversations With Hollywood's Legendary Actors
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3.99 avg rating — 396 ratings
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Sal Mineo: A Biography
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3.81 avg rating — 364 ratings
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My Cousin Rachel
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4.01 avg rating — 71,367 ratings
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Hollywood in the Forties
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4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
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A Tale of Two Cities
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3.88 avg rating — 1,022,427 ratings
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Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman (Hollywood Legends Series)
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3.09 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Audrey and Bill: A Romantic Biography of Audrey Hepburn and William Holden
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3.62 avg rating — 337 ratings
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Vivien Leigh: An Intimate Portrait
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4.17 avg rating — 596 ratings
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An Orderly Man
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4.22 avg rating — 204 ratings
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Anna Karenina
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4.11 avg rating — 947,676 ratings
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Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille
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4.29 avg rating — 133 ratings
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The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century
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3.95 avg rating — 304 ratings
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The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre
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4.11 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Ingrid Bergman
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3.71 avg rating — 76 ratings
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The Little Rascals: The Life and Times of Our Gang
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4.43 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Elizabeth Taylor, A Passion for Life: The Wit and Wisdom of a Legend
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3.48 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Jaws (Jaws, #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 181,214 ratings
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The Maltese Falcon
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3.86 avg rating — 117,135 ratings
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Hollywood Movie Stills: Art and Technique in the Golden Age of the Studios
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4.27 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Kings of the Bs: Working Within the Hollywood System
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3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Groucho Marx and Other Short Stories and Tall Tales: Selected Writings of Groucho Marx (Applause Books)
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3.67 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Will There Really Be a Morning?
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4.11 avg rating — 1,141 ratings
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Making The Elephant Man: A Producer's Memoir
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4.43 avg rating — 30 ratings
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I Lost it at the Movies: Film Writings, 1954-1965
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4.14 avg rating — 735 ratings
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Femme Noir: Bad Girls of Film
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3.88 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Shocking Miss Pilgrim: A Writer in Early Hollywood
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3.79 avg rating — 92 ratings
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