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I Loved Her in the Movies: Memories of Hollywood's Legendary Actresses
Film and television actor and New York Times bestselling author Robert Wagner’s memoir of the great women movie stars he has known. In a career that has spanned more than sixty years Robert Wagner has witnessed the twilight of the Golden Age of Hollywood and the rise of television, becoming a beloved star in both media. During that time he became acquainted, both professionally and socially, with the remarkable women who were the greatest screen personalities of their day. I Loved Her in the Movies is his intimate and revealing account of the charisma of these women on film, why they became stars, and how their specific emotional and dramatic chemistries affected the choices they made as actresses as well as the choices they made as women. Among Wagner’s subjects are Joan Crawfo... [Read More] Best Old Hollywood Biographies
- ASIN: 0525429115
- ASIN: 0525429115
- ISBN: 9780525429111
- Manufacturer: Viking
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The Purple Diaries: Mary Astor and the Most Sensational Hollywood Scandal of the 1930s
One of Hollywood’s first scandals was nearly its last. 1936 looked like it would be a great year for the movie industry. With the economy picking up after the Great Depression, Americans everywhere were sitting in the dark watching the stars―and few stars shined as brightly as one of America’s most enduring screen favorites, Mary Astor. But Astor’s story wasn’t a happy one. She was born poor, and at the first sign that she could earn money, her parents grabbed the reins and the checks. Widowed at twenty-four, Mary Astor was looking for stability when she met and wed Dr. Franklyn Thorpe. But the marriage was rocky from the start; both were unfaithful, but they did not divorce until after Mary Astor gave birth to little Marylyn Thorpe. What followed was a custody battle that pushed... [Read More] Best Old Hollywood Biographies
- ASIN: 1682302997
- ASIN: 1682302997
- ISBN: 1682302997
- Brand: DIVERSION
- Manufacturer: Diversion Books
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Hollywood Godfather: My Life in the Movies and the Mob
Hollywood Godfather is Gianni Russo's over-the-top memoir of a real-life mobster-turned-actor who helped make The Godfather a reality, and his story of life on the edge between danger and glamour. Gianni Russo was a handsome 25-year-old mobster with no acting experience when he walked onto the set of The Godfather and entered Hollywood history. He played Carlo Rizzi, the husband of Connie Corleone, who set her brother Sonny―played by James Caan―up for a hit. Russo didn't have to act―he knew the mob inside and out: from his childhood in Little Italy, where Mafia legend Frank Costello took him under his wing, to acting as a messenger for New Orleans mob boss Carlos Marcello during the Kennedy assassination, to having to go on the lam after shooting and killing a member of the Colombian... [Read More] Best Old Hollywood Biographies
- ASIN: 1250181399
- ASIN: 1250181399
- ISBN: 1250181399
- Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont
*LA Times Bestseller**An Amazon "Best History Books of 2019 So Far" Pick*"Fascinating, dishy, and glimmering with insight." --Cheryl Strayed"A fabulously fizzy account." --Vanity Fair"I want to live inside this book!" --Taylor Jenkins ReidThe definitive history of Hollywood's most iconic, storied, and scandalous hotelFor ninety years, Hollywood's brightest stars have favored the Chateau Marmont as a home away from home. An apartment house-turned-hotel, it has been the backdrop for generations of gossip and folklore: 1930s bombshell Jean Harlow took lovers during her third honeymoon there; director Nicholas Ray slept with his sixteen-year-old Rebel Without a Cause star Natalie Wood; Anthony Perkins and Tab Hunter met poolside and began a secret affair; Jim Morrison swung from the balconies,... [Read More] Best Old Hollywood Biographies
- ASIN: 0385543166
- ASIN: 0385543166
- ISBN: 0385543166
- Manufacturer: Doubleday
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In Pieces
In this intimate, haunting literary memoir and New York Times Notable Book of the year, an American icon tells her own story for the first time -- about a challenging and lonely childhood, the craft that helped her find her voice, and a powerful emotional legacy that shaped her journey as a daughter and a mother. One of the most celebrated, beloved, and enduring actors of our time, Sally Field has an infectious charm that has captivated the nation for more than five decades, beginning with her first TV role at the age of seventeen. From Gidget's sweet-faced "girl next door" to the dazzling complexity of Sybil to the Academy Award-worthy ferocity and depth of Norma Rae and Mary Todd Lincoln, Field has stunned audiences time and time again with her artistic range and emotional acuity. Yet th... [Read More] Best Old Hollywood Biographies
- ASIN: 1538763028
- ASIN: 1538763028
- ISBN: 1538763028
- Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
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Of All the Gin Joints: Stumbling through Hollywood History
True tales of celebrity hijinks are served up with an equal measure of Hollywood history, movie-star mayhem, and a frothy mix of forty cocktail recipes.Humphrey Bogart got himself arrested for protecting his drinking buddies, who happened to be a pair of stuffed pandas. Ava Gardner would water-ski to the set of Night of the Iguana holding a towline in one hand and a cocktail in the other. Barely legal Natalie Wood would let Dennis Hopper seduce her if he provided a bathtub full of champagne. Bing Crosby’s ill-mannered antics earned him the nickname “Binge Crosby.” And sweet Mary Pickford stashed liquor in hydrogen peroxide bottles during Prohibition. From the frontier days of silent film up to the wild auteur period of the 1970s, Mark Bailey has pillaged the vaults of Hollywood histo... [Read More] Best Old Hollywood Biographies
- ASIN: 1565125932
- ASIN: 1565125932
- ISBN: 1565125932
- Brand: Algonquin Books
- Manufacturer: Algonquin Books
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
“Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific—the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary—into terms we mortals can grasp.”—Tom HanksNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn The Wall Street Journal, Victor Davis Hanson named With the Old Breed one of the top five books on epic twentieth-century battles. Studs Terkel interviewed the author for his definitive oral history, The Good War. Now E. B. Sledge’s acclaimed first-person account of fighting at Peleliu and Okinawa returns to thrill, edify, and inspire a new generation. An Alabama boy steeped in American history and enamored of such heroes as George Washington and Daniel Boone, Eugene B. Sl... [Read More] Best Old Hollywood Biographies
- ASIN: 0891419063
- UPC: 884198659987
- ASIN: 0891419063
- ISBN: 0891419063
- Brand: Sledge, E. B./ Hanson, Victor Davis (INT)
- Manufacturer: Presidio Press
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Harlow in Hollywood: The Blonde Bombshell in the Glamour Capital, 1928-1937
Scene 1: Harlean Carpenter comes to Hollywood. Scene 2: Hollywood creates Jean Harlow. Scene 3: Her legend lives forever. At last, the story of how Hollywood shaped a myth and determined a young woman's reality. A town, a remarkable town, became the backdrop for one of Hollywood's most incredible stories, a life rife with glamour, pleasure, power, and--in the end--utter sorrow. Her story lives in the pages and breathtaking pictures of Harlow in Hollywood. When Jean Harlow became the Blonde Bombshell, it was all Hollywood's doing. She was the first big-screen sex symbol, the Platinum Blonde, the mold for every famous fair-haired superstar who would emulate her. Best Old Hollywood Biographies
- ASIN: 1883318963
- UPC: 884253522720
- ASIN: 1883318963
- ISBN: 1883318963
- Brand: Brand: Angel City Press
- Manufacturer: Angel City Press
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Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
New York Times Bestseller • Edgar Award winner for Best Fact CrimeThe Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the modern film industry.By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America’s new favorite pastime, and one of the nation’s largest industries. Never before had a medium possessed such power to influence. Yet Hollywood’s glittering ascendency was threatened by a string of headline-grabbing tragedies—including the murder of William Desmond Taylor, the popular president of the Motion Picture Directors Association, a legendary crime that has remained unsolved until now.In a fiendishly involving narrativ... [Read More] Best Old Hollywood Biographies
- ASIN: 0062242199
- ASIN: 0062242199
- ISBN: 0062242199
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel
Best Old Hollywood Biographies
- ASIN: B01M5IJM2U
- ASIN: B01M5IJM2U
- Manufacturer: Washington Square Press
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Rebel without a Crew : Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
Describes the making of "El Mariachi" and distribution negotiations Best Old Hollywood Biographies Famed independent screenwriter and director Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Spy Kids, Machete) discloses all the unique strategies and original techniques he used to make his remarkable debut film El Mariachi on a shoestring budget. This is both one man's remarkable story and an essential guide for anyone who has a celluloid story to tell and the dreams and determination to see it through. Part production diary, part how-to manual, Rodriguez unveils how he was able to make his influential first film on only a $7,000 budget. Also included is the appendix, "The Ten Minute Film Course,” a tell-all
- UPC: 438287
- Rating: 4.0
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Meghan : A Hollywood Princess
A biography of the American actress discusses her early life, acting career, humanitarian work, and her relationship with Prince Best Old Hollywood Biographies The New York Times bestselling biography of Meghan Markle, the American actress who won Prince Harry's heart.Women who smash the royal mold have always fascinated the public, from Grace Kelly to Princess Diana. Now acclaimed royal biographer Andrew Morton, the New York Times bestselling author of Diana: Her True Story, brings us a revealing, juicy, and inspiring look at Meghan Markle, the confident and charismatic duchess whose warm and affectionate engagement interview won the hearts of the world. When Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were set up by a mutual friend on a blind date in July 2016, little did
- UPC: 399577244
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Hollywood Babylon : The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets
Recalls the tragic fates of many movie stars who believed in the dream factory called Hollywood Best Old Hollywood Biographies “Kenneth Anger has fashioned a delicious . . . box of poisoned bonbons. Picking through the slag heap of the Hollywood dream factory, [he] has put together a truly prodigious anthology of star-studded scandal.”—The New York TimesKenneth Anger is a former child movie actor who grew up to become one of America’s leading underground filmmakers. Hollywood Babylon was originally published in Paris, and quickly became an underground legend. Not a word has been changed. Not a story omitted. Here is the hot, luscious plum of sizzling scandal that continues to shock the
- UPC: 446530
- Rating: 4.125
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From Old Hollywood to New Brunswick - eBook
Imagine receiving a mysterious invitation from Charlie Chaplin, doing jigsaw puzzles with Marilyn Monroe, having a heart-to-heart with Jack Kennedy, or being kissed by Greta Garbo. All of these and more are the sensational memories of UK-born, honorary Maritimer Charles Foster. After an unlikely childhood, his adventurous spirit brought him in 1943 to RAF pilot training school in Calgary. Through a series of incredible circumstances and fortunate friendships, Foster went on to become a Hollywood writer and publicist. Now writing from New Brunswick as a regular columnist for Senior’s Advocate, Foster shares his most tantalizing stories as a collection for Best Old Hollywood Biographies From Old Hollywood to New Brunswick - eBook
- UPC: 810548676
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Diary of a Rich Man's Kid : Old Hollywood, World Leaders, Movers & Shakers, and One Boy at the Center of It All!
Charles C. Pettijohn, Jr. has met the notable and the notorious, the famous and the infamous. From a childhood surrounded by the stars of Old Hollywood to a career in the golden age of television and film, he has seen it all. Introduced by his daughter, Adrienne, Charles shares personal stories of life among American royalty in this intimate and folksy memoir. Frank and uncensored, Diary of a Rich Man's Kid shows the real side of many larger-than-life figures. Entertainment notables like Carol Burnett, Burt Reynolds, and Red Skelton make appearances as well as world leaders like Franklin D. Roosevelt Best Old Hollywood Biographies Charles C. Pettijohn, Jr. has met the notable and the notorious, the famous and the infamous. From a childhood surrounded by the stars of Old Hollywood to a career in the golden age of television and film, he has seen it all. Introduced by his daughter, Adrienne, Charles shares personal stories of life among American royalty in this intimate and folksy memoir. Frank and uncensored, Diary of a Rich Man's Kid shows the real side of many larger-than-life figures. Entertainment notables like Carol Burnett, Burt Reynolds, and Red Skelton make appearances as well as world leaders like Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Kennedy. Diary
- UPC: 30169613
Palm Springs | The Craziest Old Hollywood Celebrity Scandals
Palm Springs, CA, has been a hideaway for celebrities since the 1920s; the desert location, with its unique microclimate and dry weather, was seen as a "tonic" for those looking to escape the stres... weird history,history,palm springs,hollywood,marilyn monroe,some like it hot,gentlemen prefer blo...
Top 10 Era Defining Actresses: Classic
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Top 3 Classic Hollywood Biographies
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