Books about Silent Movies

1.
The Parade's Gone By...
The Parade's Gone By... 4.38 avg rating — 740 ratings
2.
Lulu in Hollywood
Lulu in Hollywood 3.97 avg rating — 1,815 ratings
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Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild
Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild 4.13 avg rating — 1,802 ratings
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Buster Keaton Remembered
Buster Keaton Remembered 4.47 avg rating — 262 ratings
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My Autobiography
My Autobiography 4.03 avg rating — 8,117 ratings
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Louise Brooks: A Biography
Louise Brooks: A Biography 4.19 avg rating — 973 ratings
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Hollywood: The Pioneers
Hollywood: The Pioneers 4.44 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Swanson on Swanson
Swanson on Swanson 4.13 avg rating — 1,249 ratings
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My Wonderful World of Slapstick
My Wonderful World of Slapstick 4.30 avg rating — 731 ratings
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Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood
Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood 4.09 avg rating — 326 ratings
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Silent Stars
Silent Stars 4.07 avg rating — 449 ratings
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Chaplin
Chaplin 4.13 avg rating — 966 ratings
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American Silent Film
American Silent Film 4.09 avg rating — 204 ratings
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Mary Pickford: America's Sweetheart
Mary Pickford: America's Sweetheart 3.85 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton
Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton 4.60 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Frame-Up!: The Untold Story of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
Frame-Up!: The Untold Story of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle 3.62 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino
Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino 4.12 avg rating — 420 ratings
18.
Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara
Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara 3.94 avg rating — 483 ratings
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Dark Star: The Untold Story of the Meteoric Rise and Fall of Legendary Silent Screen Star John Gilbert
Dark Star: The Untold Story of the Meteoric Rise and Fall of Legendary Silent Screen Star John Gilbert 4.34 avg rating — 95 ratings
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The Times We Had: Life with William Randolph Hearst
The Times We Had: Life with William Randolph Hearst 3.59 avg rating — 942 ratings
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Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood 4.35 avg rating — 319 ratings
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The Day the Laughter Stopped
The Day the Laughter Stopped 3.95 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema
Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema 4.54 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Hollywood Babylon (Hollywood Babylon, #1)
Hollywood Babylon (Hollywood Babylon, #1) 3.67 avg rating — 6,424 ratings
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Ragtime
Ragtime 3.89 avg rating — 45,695 ratings
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Sunset Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard 4.25 avg rating — 358 ratings
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Keaton
Keaton 4.15 avg rating — 102 ratings
28.
Mary Pickford Rediscovered
Mary Pickford Rediscovered 4.45 avg rating — 129 ratings
29.
Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks 4.19 avg rating — 48 ratings
30.
Keaton: The Man Who Wouldn't Lie Down
Keaton: The Man Who Wouldn't Lie Down 3.96 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Dorothy and Lillian Gish
Dorothy and Lillian Gish 4.52 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Buster Keaton: Tempest In A Flat Hat
Buster Keaton: Tempest In A Flat Hat 3.86 avg rating — 327 ratings
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Silent Movies: The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture
Silent Movies: The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture 4.11 avg rating — 272 ratings
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I, Fatty
I, Fatty 3.90 avg rating — 1,268 ratings
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The Harold Lloyd Encyclopedia
The Harold Lloyd Encyclopedia 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Keystone: The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennett
Keystone: The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennett 3.80 avg rating — 94 ratings
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The Book of Illusions
The Book of Illusions 3.90 avg rating — 26,199 ratings
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The Silent Clowns
The Silent Clowns 4.51 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary: Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s
Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary: Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s 3.98 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Mabel
Mabel 3.65 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Dangerous Curves Atop Hollywood Heels: The Lives, Careers, and Misfortunes of 14 Hard-Luck Girls of the Silent Screen
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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The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies
The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies 4.19 avg rating — 2,406 ratings
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Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood
Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood 3.97 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Marion Davies: A Biography
Marion Davies: A Biography 3.83 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Harold Lloyd: The Man on the Clock
Harold Lloyd: The Man on the Clock 4.05 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Wallace Reid: The Life And Death of a Hollywood Idol
Wallace Reid: The Life And Death of a Hollywood Idol 3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Room 1219: The Life of Fatty Arbuckle, the Mysterious Death of Virginia Rappe, and the Scandal That Changed Hollywood
Room 1219: The Life of Fatty Arbuckle, the Mysterious Death of Virginia Rappe, and the Scandal That Changed Hollywood 3.88 avg rating — 564 ratings
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Nazimova
Nazimova 4.06 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Movies In The Age Of Inocence
Movies In The Age Of Inocence really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood
Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood 4.24 avg rating — 336 ratings
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Garbo
Garbo 4.02 avg rating — 462 ratings
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Sonnets to Sunspots: Dr. Research Baxter and the Bell Science Films
Sonnets to Sunspots: Dr. Research Baxter and the Bell Science Films 4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings
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American Movie Critics: An Anthology From the Silents Until Now
American Movie Critics: An Anthology From the Silents Until Now 4.17 avg rating — 158 ratings
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Chaplin: His Life and Art
Chaplin: His Life and Art 4.13 avg rating — 966 ratings
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D.W. Griffith: An American Life
D.W. Griffith: An American Life 3.99 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks: The Most Popular Couple the World Has Known
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks: The Most Popular Couple the World Has Known 3.80 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Florence Lawrence, the Biograph Girl: America's First Movie Star
Florence Lawrence, the Biograph Girl: America's First Movie Star 3.96 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Theater and Cinema of Buster Keaton
The Theater and Cinema of Buster Keaton 3.60 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Charlie Chaplin and His Times
Charlie Chaplin and His Times 3.88 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Mary Pickford: America's Sweetheart
Mary Pickford: America's Sweetheart 3.85 avg rating — 137 ratings
61.
Mabel: Hollywood's First I-Don't-Care Girl
Mabel: Hollywood's First I-Don't-Care Girl 3.65 avg rating — 95 ratings
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The "It" Girl: The Incredible Story of Clara Bow
The "It" Girl: The Incredible Story of Clara Bow 3.42 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The Movies
The Movies 4.47 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Dark Lady of the Silents: My Life in Early Hollywood
Dark Lady of the Silents: My Life in Early Hollywood 3.44 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Silent Star
Silent Star 3.88 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Spellbound in Darkness: A History of the Silent Film
Spellbound in Darkness: A History of the Silent Film 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings
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A Cast of Killers
A Cast of Killers 3.98 avg rating — 993 ratings
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Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend 3.53 avg rating — 4,938 ratings
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Before Mickey: The Animated Film, 1898-1928
Before Mickey: The Animated Film, 1898-1928 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro
Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro 3.95 avg rating — 151 ratings
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What Ever Happened to Baby Peggy: The Autobiography of Hollywood's Pioneer Child Star
What Ever Happened to Baby Peggy: The Autobiography of Hollywood's Pioneer Child Star 4.27 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Our Gang: A Racial History of The Little Rascals
Our Gang: A Racial History of The Little Rascals
by: Julia Lee
3.85 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art
Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art 3.68 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Hollywood's Children: An Inside Account of the Child Star Era
Hollywood's Children: An Inside Account of the Child Star Era 4.02 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Little Rascals: The Life and Times of Our Gang
The Little Rascals: The Life and Times of Our Gang 4.42 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only
Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only 4.09 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Madam Valentino: The Many Lives of Natacha Rambova
Madam Valentino: The Many Lives of Natacha Rambova 4.43 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life
Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life 4.41 avg rating — 406 ratings
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Behind the Mask of Innocence: Films of Social Conscience in the Silent Era
Behind the Mask of Innocence: Films of Social Conscience in the Silent Era 4.49 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Sunnyside
Sunnyside 3.40 avg rating — 1,395 ratings
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Murder in Hollywood: Solving a Silent Screen Mystery
Murder in Hollywood: Solving a Silent Screen Mystery 3.18 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood 4.35 avg rating — 319 ratings
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The Valentino Mystique: The Death and Afterlife of the Silent Film Idol
The Valentino Mystique: The Death and Afterlife of the Silent Film Idol 3.57 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Louise Brooks: Lulu Forever
Louise Brooks: Lulu Forever 4.24 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Speaking of Silents: First Ladies of the Screen
Speaking of Silents: First Ladies of the Screen 4.16 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Garbo and Gilbert in Love : Hollywood's First Great Celebrity Couple Hardcover
Garbo and Gilbert in Love : Hollywood's First Great Celebrity Couple Hardcover 3.32 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle: A Biography of the Silent Film Comedian, 1887-1933
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle: A Biography of the Silent Film Comedian, 1887-1933 3.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Silent Lives: 100 Biographies of the Silent Film Era
Silent Lives: 100 Biographies of the Silent Film Era
by: Lon Davis
3.94 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Margarita Fischer: A Biography of the Silent Film Star
Margarita Fischer: A Biography of the Silent Film Star 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Olive Thomas: The Life and Death of a Silent Film Beauty
Olive Thomas: The Life and Death of a Silent Film Beauty 3.37 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Burning Passions: Introduction to the Study of Silent Cinema
Burning Passions: Introduction to the Study of Silent Cinema 3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Biograph Girl
The Biograph Girl 3.59 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film
Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film 3.86 avg rating — 435 ratings
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Mae Murray: The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips
Mae Murray: The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips 4.12 avg rating — 112 ratings
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From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film
From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film 3.92 avg rating — 870 ratings
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Mack & Mabel
Mack & Mabel 2.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Gloria Swanson: The Ultimate Star
Gloria Swanson: The Ultimate Star 3.73 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Moviola
Moviola 3.77 avg rating — 176 ratings
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His Picture in the Papers: A Speculation on Celebrity in America Based on the Life of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
His Picture in the Papers: A Speculation on Celebrity in America Based on the Life of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Evelyn Brent: The Life and Films of Hollywood's Lady Crook
Evelyn Brent: The Life and Films of Hollywood's Lady Crook
by: Lynn Kear
2.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
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