Best of the Big Screen
101. 
Harlow in Hollywood: The Blonde Bombshell in the Glamour Capital, 1928-1937
by:
Darrell Rooney
4.37 avg rating — 207 ratings 102. 
104. 
Close-up on Sunset Boulevard: Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond, and the Dark Hollywood Dream
by:
Sam Staggs
3.75 avg rating — 367 ratings 105. 
Golden Dreams: How Hattie McDaniel Broke Barriers in Hollywood and Beyond
by:
Charlene Porter
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 106. 
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
by:
Mallory O'Meara
3.96 avg rating — 6,507 ratings 107. 
108. 
Mean...Moody...Magnificent!: Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood Legend
by:
Christina Rice
4.28 avg rating — 46 ratings 109. 
Stealing the Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood
by:
Miriam J. Petty
4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings 110. 
The Purple Diaries: Mary Astor and the Most Sensational Hollywood Scandal of the 1930s
by:
Joseph Egan
3.77 avg rating — 1,289 ratings 111. 
Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton
by:
John Bengston
4.60 avg rating — 88 ratings 112. 
High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic
by:
Glenn Frankel
4.12 avg rating — 960 ratings 
115. 
Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood
by:
Mick LaSalle
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,176 ratings 
117. 
White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan
by:
Tom Rice
3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings 118. 
I Am Spartacus!: Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist
by:
Kirk Douglas
4.20 avg rating — 1,053 ratings 119. 
The Last 'Darky': Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
121. 
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Expanded and Updated
by:
David Thomson
4.23 avg rating — 713 ratings