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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,452,404 ratings — published 2017
The Star Machine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.05 — 935 ratings — published 2007
Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,902 ratings — published 1988
Bombshell: The Life and Death of Jean Harlow (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,018 ratings — published 1993
Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,212 ratings — published 2000
Ava Gardner: "Love is Nothing" (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,065 ratings — published 2006
If This Was Happiness: A Biography of Rita Hayworth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.94 — 977 ratings — published 1989
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,645 ratings — published 2009
Hollywood Babylon (Hollywood Babylon, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.64 — 7,284 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 — 5,335 ratings — published 2014
Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.23 — 339 ratings — published 1999
Me: Stories of My Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.81 — 16,251 ratings — published 1991
Lulu in Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,854 ratings — published 1982
City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,196 ratings — published 1986
Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.08 — 714 ratings — published 1979
By Myself and Then Some (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,546 ratings — published 2005
Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,673 ratings — published 1989
Ava: My Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,100 ratings — published 1990
A Touch of Stardust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.66 — 5,374 ratings — published 2015
Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,401 ratings — published 2010
Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,848 ratings — published 2010
Marilyn Monroe: The Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,442 ratings — published 1993
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 3.68 — 4,928 ratings — published 2019
Swanson on Swanson (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,288 ratings — published 1980
Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.17 — 825 ratings — published 1987
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 — 2,576 ratings — published 2014
Ginger: My Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,031 ratings — published 1991
The Girl Who Walked Home Alone: A Personal Biography of Bette Davis (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,137 ratings — published 2006
The Girls in the Picture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.64 — 8,540 ratings — published 2018
Love, Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.27 — 12,886 ratings — published 1996
Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,658 ratings — published 2006
Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,406 ratings — published 2001
By Myself (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,908 ratings — published 1978
Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.87 — 623 ratings — published 2007
Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,236 ratings — published 2013
Mommie Dearest (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.67 — 11,822 ratings — published 1978
Silent Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.06 — 460 ratings — published 1999
My Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,515 ratings — published 1974
High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.64 — 2,761 ratings — published 2009
Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,356 ratings — published 2000
Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leigh (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,710 ratings — published 1987
'Tis Herself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,076 ratings — published 2004
Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,568 ratings — published 2003
Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.94 — 498 ratings — published 1996
Lana: the Lady, the Legend, the Truth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.93 — 720 ratings — published 1982
Marlene Dietrich (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,520 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 — 2,256 ratings — published 2018
Marilyn Monroe : Private and Undisclosed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.01 — 918 ratings — published 2012
All the Stars in the Heavens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.60 — 14,277 ratings — published 2015
Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,084 ratings — published 1985
“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 crawled out mutilated, whimpering and terribly alone. But I did survive.”
― Will There Really Be a Morning?
― Will There Really Be a Morning?
“To MGM fell the thankless task of policing the Garbo name and its commercial use. Several years earlier, J. Robert Rubin in MGM's New York office was panicked to learn of a trademarked product called Garbo - which turned out to be a new fangled garbage unit. The final cable from headquarters in Culver City concluded, 'It would be fairly hard to stop the word Garbo in connection with a refuse container. It does not seem anyone is going to confuse the two.”
― Garbo
― Garbo
