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I love reading about Golden Age Hollywood and the actors and actresses from that time period. Can anyone recommend any books about what Hollywood was like back then and some biographies? I'm about to read Lauren Bacall By Myself, Sophia Loren Living and Loving: Her Own Story, and Cary Grant A Class Apart.
So far I have read:
1. City of Nets
2. Ava My Story
3. Ava Love is Nothing
4. Hollywood in Kodachrome
5. Dream Palaces of Hollywoods Golden Age
6. Hollywood Remembered: An Oral History of Its Golden Age
7. MGM: Hollywood's Greatest Backlot
8. Clark Gable a Biography
9. Humphrey Bogart Tough Without A Gun
10. The Secret Life of Marylin
11. Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leigh
After my Mom passed away, I found these in her bookcase. Was really a surprise, since I only saw her reading Westerns, LOL.
Lauren Bacall by Myself By Lauren Bacall
Barbara Stanwyck the Miracle Woman By Dan Callahan
Please Don't Shoot My Dog: the Autobiography of Jackie Cooper By Jackie Cooper
Ava Gardner the Secret Conversations By Peter Evans
Shirley Jones: a Memoir By Shirley Jones
Ball of Fire: the Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball By Stefan Kanfer
Tough Without a Gun: the Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of Humphrey Bogart By Stefan Kanfer
Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century By Sam Kashner
Paul Newman a Life By Shawn Levy
Dean & Me By Jerry Lewis
Joan Crawford the Essential Biography By Lawrence J. Quick
The Astaires Fred & Adele By Kathleen Riley
Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr By Stephen Michael Shearer
High Society the Life of Grace Kelly By Donald Spoto
The Golden Girls of MGM: Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Lana Turner, Judy Garland, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, and Others By Jane Ellen Wayne
It's earlier, from the 1920s, a compilation of letters by the girl who became Goldwyn's secretary. What fascinated me was the glimpse of the times in general, the ease with which people made friends, found living situations, got jobs. Kind of charming.
Apart from that, I know that Simon Callow's on Orson Welles is supposed to be superlative. And Print the Legend about John Ford.
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The Sewing Circle: Hollywood's Greatest Secret: Female Stars Who Loved Other Women by Axel Madsen. I read this as a teenager, it was in my cousin's bookcase.
I think you'ld enjoy A Cast of Killers, a "semi-fictionalized" account of the unsolved 1922 killing of producer William Desmond Taylor. Author Sidney Kilpatrick's tale places the late producer King Vidor in the role of sleuth, with the story based on an actual inquiry in the late Sixties.
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