it was just like a movie, it was just like a song ♫
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The Purple Diaries: Mary Astor and the Most Sensational Hollywood Scandal of the 1930s
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Joseph Egan
3.77 avg rating — 1,289 ratings 8. 
The Making of The African Queen Or How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and almost lost my mind 3.95 avg rating — 2,472 ratings
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Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
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William J. Mann
3.63 avg rating — 5,110 ratings 
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Barbara Leaming
3.93 avg rating — 926 ratings 
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Otto Friedrich
4.11 avg rating — 1,110 ratings 
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All About All About Eve: The Complete Behind-the-Scenes Story of the Bitchiest Film Ever Made!
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Sam Staggs
3.87 avg rating — 704 ratings 24. 
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The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont
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Shawn Levy
3.67 avg rating — 4,470 ratings 
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Dangerous Curves Atop Hollywood Heels: The Lives, Careers, and Misfortunes of 14 Hard-Luck Girls of the Silent Screen 3.87 avg rating — 193 ratings
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A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960
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Jeanine Basinger
4.14 avg rating — 215 ratings 
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Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,176 ratings 
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Dangerous Men: Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man
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Mick LaSalle
4.20 avg rating — 194 ratings 
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Sisters: The Story of Olivia De Havilland and Joan Fontaine
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Charles Higham
3.32 avg rating — 96 ratings 42. 
Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century
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Sam Kashner
3.88 avg rating — 4,561 ratings 
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Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock
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Christina Lane
3.90 avg rating — 155 ratings 45. 
Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema; 1930-1934
by:
Thomas Doherty
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 222 ratings 
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Ellen F. Brown
4.12 avg rating — 481 ratings 
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American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee
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Karen Abbott
3.42 avg rating — 5,779 ratings 
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4.07 avg rating — 1,031 ratings 68. 
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Willard Carroll
4.11 avg rating — 172 ratings 69. 
Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
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Richard Rhodes
3.17 avg rating — 3,305 ratings 
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Miss D and Me: Life with the Invincible Bette Davis
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Kathryn Sermak
4.18 avg rating — 1,330 ratings 73. 
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Harlow in Hollywood: The Blonde Bombshell in the Glamour Capital, 1928-1937
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Darrell Rooney
4.37 avg rating — 207 ratings 78. 
Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine: A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers
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Anthony Slide
3.60 avg rating — 30 ratings 78. 
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A Fortunate Life: Behind-the-Scenes Stories from a Hollywood Legend
by:
Robert Vaughn
3.79 avg rating — 175 ratings 
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He's Got Rhythm: The Life and Career of Gene Kelly
by:
Cynthia Brideson
3.92 avg rating — 169 ratings 
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Errol Flynn
4.03 avg rating — 2,180 ratings 
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings 
