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Old Hollywood Books
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,266,007 ratings — published 2017
The Star Machine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.05 — 925 ratings — published 2007
Bombshell: The Life and Death of Jean Harlow (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,011 ratings — published 1993
Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,879 ratings — published 1988
Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,207 ratings — published 2000
Ava Gardner: "Love is Nothing" (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,062 ratings — published 2006
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,585 ratings — published 2009
Hollywood Babylon (Hollywood Babylon, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.65 — 7,094 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 — 5,268 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 — 16,175 ratings — published 1991
If This Was Happiness: A Biography of Rita Hayworth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.94 — 966 ratings — published 1989
City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,179 ratings — published 1986
Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.08 — 708 ratings — published 1979
Lulu in Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,844 ratings — published 1982
By Myself and Then Some (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,518 ratings — published 2005
Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,646 ratings — published 1989
Ava: My Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,089 ratings — published 1990
A Touch of Stardust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.65 — 5,338 ratings — published 2015
Marilyn Monroe: The Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,394 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 — 4,807 ratings — published 2019
Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.17 — 806 ratings — published 1987
Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,353 ratings — published 2010
Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,794 ratings — published 2010
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 — 2,560 ratings — published 2014
Swanson on Swanson (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,282 ratings — published 1980
Ginger: My Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,020 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 3.94 — 1,130 ratings — published 2006
Love, Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.27 — 12,575 ratings — published 1996
Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,604 ratings — published 2006
Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,399 ratings — published 2001
By Myself (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,890 ratings — published 1978
The Girls in the Picture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.64 — 8,415 ratings — published 2018
Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,213 ratings — published 2013
Mommie Dearest (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.67 — 11,698 ratings — published 1978
Silent Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.07 — 459 ratings — published 1999
Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.87 — 621 ratings — published 2007
High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,733 ratings — published 2009
Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,304 ratings — published 2000
'Tis Herself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,049 ratings — published 2004
Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,538 ratings — published 2003
Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.94 — 496 ratings — published 1996
Lana: the Lady, the Legend, the Truth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.93 — 717 ratings — published 1982
Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leigh (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,709 ratings — published 1987
Marlene Dietrich (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,512 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 — 2,241 ratings — published 2018
Marilyn Monroe : Private and Undisclosed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.01 — 911 ratings — published 2012
All the Stars in the Heavens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.60 — 14,145 ratings — published 2015
My Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,418 ratings — published 1974
Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,010 ratings — published 1985
“...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 us.”
― Judy Garland
― Judy Garland
“Women were never absent from film history; they often simply weren’t documented as part of it because they did “women's work”, which was—by definition— insignificant, tedious, low status, and noncreative. In the golden age of Hollywood, women could be found in nearly every department of every studio, minding the details that might otherwise get in the way of more important, prestigious, or creative work (a.k.a. men's work).
If film historians consider the classical Hollywood era’s mode of production a system, we ought to consider women this system’s main-stay, because studios were built on their low-cost backs and scaled through their brush and keystrokes.”
― Never Done: A History of Women's Work in Media Production
If film historians consider the classical Hollywood era’s mode of production a system, we ought to consider women this system’s main-stay, because studios were built on their low-cost backs and scaled through their brush and keystrokes.”
― Never Done: A History of Women's Work in Media Production
