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Old Hollywood Books
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,055,521 ratings — published 2017
The Star Machine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.05 — 904 ratings — published 2007
Bombshell: The Life and Death of Jean Harlow (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,014 ratings — published 1993
Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,842 ratings — published 1988
Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,186 ratings — published 2000
Ava Gardner: "Love is Nothing" (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,052 ratings — published 2006
Hollywood Babylon (Hollywood Babylon, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.65 — 6,805 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 — 5,172 ratings — published 2014
Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.24 — 337 ratings — published 1999
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,512 ratings — published 2009
Me: Stories of My Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.81 — 16,093 ratings — published 1991
Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.08 — 699 ratings — published 1979
If This Was Happiness: A Biography of Rita Hayworth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.93 — 949 ratings — published 1989
Lulu in Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,830 ratings — published 1982
City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,152 ratings — published 1986
By Myself and Then Some (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,483 ratings — published 2005
Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,618 ratings — published 1989
Ava: My Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,079 ratings — published 1990
A Touch of Stardust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.65 — 5,301 ratings — published 2015
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 3.67 — 4,648 ratings — published 2019
Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.16 — 798 ratings — published 1987
Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,320 ratings — published 2010
Marilyn Monroe: The Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,358 ratings — published 1993
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 — 2,538 ratings — published 2014
Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,707 ratings — published 2010
The Girl Who Walked Home Alone: A Personal Biography of Bette Davis (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,119 ratings — published 2006
Swanson on Swanson (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,268 ratings — published 1980
Love, Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.27 — 12,286 ratings — published 1996
Ginger: My Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,014 ratings — published 1991
Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,498 ratings — published 2006
By Myself (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,883 ratings — published 1978
The Girls in the Picture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.64 — 8,301 ratings — published 2018
Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,179 ratings — published 2013
Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,381 ratings — published 2001
Silent Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.06 — 453 ratings — published 1999
High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,698 ratings — published 2009
Mommie Dearest (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.67 — 11,534 ratings — published 1978
Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.86 — 611 ratings — published 2007
Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,242 ratings — published 2000
Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,501 ratings — published 2003
Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.94 — 490 ratings — published 1996
Lana: the Lady, the Legend, the Truth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.92 — 704 ratings — published 1982
Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leigh (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,707 ratings — published 1987
Marlene Dietrich (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,472 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 — 2,211 ratings — published 2018
All the Stars in the Heavens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.60 — 13,956 ratings — published 2015
'Tis Herself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,986 ratings — published 2004
This Was Hollywood: Forgotten Stars and Stories (Turner Classic Movies)
by (shelved 14 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.22 — 878 ratings — published 2020
Marilyn Monroe : Private and Undisclosed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 4.01 — 888 ratings — published 2012
Child Star: An Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as old-hollywood)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,344 ratings — published 1988
“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
“She ran her own train. She didn't feel she had to get married, she wore her hair and makeup the way she wanted to, she furnished her home the way she wanted to, she did everything the way she wanted to.”
― Garbo
― Garbo
