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Fireball: Carole Lombard and the Mystery of Flight 3 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,442 ratings — published 2014
Me: Stories of My Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 3.81 — 16,198 ratings — published 1991
Ava: My Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,093 ratings — published 1990
Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 4.17 — 815 ratings — published 1987
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 3.63 — 5,303 ratings — published 2014
A Touch of Stardust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 3.65 — 5,358 ratings — published 2015
Myrna Loy: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 3.68 — 265 ratings — published 2011
Ginger: My Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,025 ratings — published 1991
Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,819 ratings — published 2010
Ava Gardner: "Love is Nothing" (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,065 ratings — published 2006
The Star Machine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 4.05 — 932 ratings — published 2007
My Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,441 ratings — published 1964
By Myself and Then Some (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,527 ratings — published 2005
The Moon's a Balloon (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 4.10 — 8,573 ratings — published 1971
Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,890 ratings — published 1988
Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,638 ratings — published 2006
Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,334 ratings — published 2000
By Myself (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,899 ratings — published 1978
Lulu in Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,851 ratings — published 1982
Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 4.08 — 709 ratings — published 1979
The Parade's Gone By... (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 4.38 — 761 ratings — published 1968
Mommie Dearest (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 3.67 — 11,775 ratings — published 1978
Cagney by Cagney: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 4.05 — 465 ratings — published 1976
Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,538 ratings — published 2020
The Movie Musical! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 3.84 — 370 ratings — published 2019
Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 4.27 — 768 ratings — published 1998
Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,250 ratings — published 2018
Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,698 ratings — published 2019
Hank & Jim: The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,206 ratings — published 2017
Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,225 ratings — published 2013
Bogart: In Search of My Father (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 3.84 — 549 ratings — published 1995
A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 4.16 — 221 ratings — published 1993
Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,574 ratings — published 2011
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,365,728 ratings — published 2017
Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 3.70 — 7,712 ratings — published 2010
Child Star: An Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,378 ratings — published 1988
The Purple Diaries: Mary Astor and the Most Sensational Hollywood Scandal of the 1930s (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,321 ratings — published 2016
This 'n That (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,197 ratings — published 1987
Montgomery Clift: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,250 ratings — published 1978
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 4.34 — 332 ratings — published 1997
Gable & Lombard: A Biography (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 4.04 — 777 ratings — published 1974
Silent Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 4.06 — 459 ratings — published 1999
City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,187 ratings — published 1986
Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 4.23 — 339 ratings — published 1999
Harpo Speaks! (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,324 ratings — published 1961
My Sister Marilyn: A Memoir of Marilyn Monroe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 3.99 — 674 ratings — published 1994
Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,209 ratings — published 2000
Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,186 ratings — published 2014
Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,404 ratings — published 2001
Swanson on Swanson (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-hollywood)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,282 ratings — published 1980
“Her first really great role, the one that cemented the “Jean Arthur character,” was as the wisecracking big-city reporter who eventually melts for country rube Gary Cooper in Frank Capra’s Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936). It was the first of three terrific films for Capra: Jean played the down-to-earth daughter of an annoyingly wacky family in Capra’s rendition of Kaufman and Hart’s You Can’t Take It With You (1938), and she was another hard-boiled city gal won over by a starry-eyed yokel in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). “Jean Arthur is my favorite actress,” said Capra, who had successfully worked with Stanwyck, Colbert and Hepburn. “. . . push that neurotic girl . . . in front of the camera . . . and that whining mop would magically blossom into a warm, lovely, poised and confident actress.” Capra obviously recognized that Jean was often frustrated in her career choice.”
― Bride of Golden Images
― Bride of Golden Images
