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  • MGM

    Hollywood's Greatest Backlot

    by Steven Bingen, Stephen X Sylvester, Michael Troyan ...
    M-G-M: Hollywood’s Greatest Backlot is the illustrated history of the soundstages and outdoor sets where Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced many of the world’s most famous films. During its Golden Age, the studio employed the likes of Garbo, Astaire, and Gable, and produced innumerable iconic pieces of cinema such as The Wizard of Oz, Singin’ in the Rain, and Ben-Hur.It is estimated that a fifth of all ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Rose for Mrs. Miniver

    The Life of Greer Garson

    by Michael Troyan ...
    In this first-ever biography of Greer Garson, Michael Troyan sweeps away the many myths that even today veil her life. The true origins of her birth, her fairy-tale discovery in Hollywood, and her career struggles at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer are revealed for the first time. Garson combined an everywoman quality with grace, charm, and refinement. She won the Academy Award in 1941 for her role in Mrs. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Twentieth Century Fox

    A Century of Entertainment

    by Michael Troyan, Jeffrey Paul Thompson, Stephen X. Sylvester ...
    Here it is: the first-time look at the remarkable American multinational mass media empire and its century of entertainment—the story of Twentieth Century Fox (1915–2015). Or, to borrow the title of a classic 1959 Fox film, The Best of Everything. This is the complete revelatory story—bookended by empire builders William Fox and Rupert Murdoch—aimed as both a grand, entertaining, nostalgic and ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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  • Jack L. Warner: Last Of The Hollywood Empire Builders

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Jack Warner epitomized the great Hollywood studio chief. He was admired as much as he was feared, engaged in battles with some of Hollywood's greatest legends from Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney to Olivia de Havilland and Bette Davis. Under his tutelage Warner Bros. gave us some of the most memorable and iconic movies, including The Jazz Singer, Casablanca, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Damn ... Read more

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  • Hollywood 1940-2008

    by Marc Wanamaker ...
    Series series Images of America
    Since World War II, Hollywood has fought and won that same war many times, won the West even more often�plus got the girl�and laughed like crazy, too. The postwar era in the dream factory was a prosperous time of expansion and wealth through the 1970s, decline in the 1980s, and rebirth in the new century. Vintage photographs from the rare collections of Hollywood Heritage and Bison Archives depict ... Read more

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  • Not the Girl Next Door

    Joan Crawford, a Personal Biography

    by Charlotte Chandler ...
    In this fascinating new biography of screen legend Joan Crawford, Charlotte Chandler draws on exclusive and remarkably candid interviews with Crawford herself and with others who knew her, including first husband Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Crawford's daughter Cathy. As a result, this biography is fresh and revealing, a brand-new look at one of Hollywood's most acclaimed stars.Joan Crawford was ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Hollywood

    by Gore Vidal ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Hollywood marks the fifth episode in Gore Vidal's "Narratives of Empire," his celebrated series of six historical novels that form his extended biography of the United States.It is 1917, and President Woodrow Wilson is about to lead the country into the Great War in Europe. In California, a new industry is born that will irreversibly transform America. Caroline Sanford, the alluring heroine of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Life at the Marmont

    The Inside Story of Hollywood's Legendary Hotel of the Stars--Chateau Marmont

    by Raymond Sarlot, Fred E. Basten, Fred E. Basten ...
    Raymond Sarlot bought the Chateau Marmont in 1975, but what was originally a business purchase became a love affair as he delved into the hotel's incredible history. From its perch overlooking the Sunset Strip, the glamorous Marmont reigned for decades as the spot for artists, writers, musicians, and actors of every stripe and remains a home-away-from-home for A-listers like Scarlett Johansson and ... Read more

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  • Elizabeth Taylor

    The Lady, The Lover, The Legend 1932-2011

    by David Bret ...
    From her fairytale childhood to her impressive array of movies and marriages, Elizabeth Taylor’s life, both on and off the screen, has enchanted, saddened, appalled, and entertained us for the past seven decades.Elizabeth Taylor: The Lady, The Lover, The Legend -- the first new biography to be published following her death -- strips away the Hollywood veneer to reveal the woman as she really was. ... Read more

    $10.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Happy Days in Hollywood

    A Memoir

    by Garry Marshall ...
    With the television hits The Odd Couple, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, and Mork & Mindy, and movies like The Flamingo Kid, Beaches, Pretty Woman, and The Princess Diaries under his belt, Garry Marshall has been among the most successful writers, directors, and producers in America for more than five decades. His work on the small and big screen has delighted audiences for the last three decades ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Dropped Names

    Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them

    by Frank Langella ...
    Rita Hayworth dancing by candlelight; Elizabeth Taylor tenderly wrapping him in her Pashmina scarf; streaking for Sir Laurence Olivier in a drafty English castle; terrifying a dozing Jackie Onassis; carrying an unconscious Montgomery Clift to safety on a dark New York street...Captured forever in a unique memoir, Frank Langella's myriad encounters with some of the past century's most famous human ... Read more

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  • Tales of a Hollywood Housewife

    A Memoir by the First Mrs. Lee Marvin

    by Betty Marvin ...
    At sixteen, Betty runs away from the small river town she's always known, to live in Los Angeles with her father, an outrageous used car salesman and avid gambler. It is the first journey in what will be a remarkable life among remarkable people: Betty's first job out of college is as Joan Crawford's nanny, caring for the Crawford children at the height of the star's career. Hollywood is about to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD