Old Hollywood Women
2. 
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood
by:
Cari Beauchamp
4.35 avg rating — 319 ratings 3. 
Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott
by:
Marsha Gordon
4.14 avg rating — 63 ratings 
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The Purple Diaries: Mary Astor and the Most Sensational Hollywood Scandal of the 1930s
by:
Joseph Egan
3.77 avg rating — 1,289 ratings 
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All About All About Eve: The Complete Behind-the-Scenes Story of the Bitchiest Film Ever Made!
by:
Sam Staggs
3.87 avg rating — 704 ratings 
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A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960
by:
Jeanine Basinger
4.14 avg rating — 215 ratings 10. 
Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
by:
Richard Rhodes
3.17 avg rating — 3,305 ratings 
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Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood
by:
Mick LaSalle
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,176 ratings 
23. 
Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary: Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s
by:
Valeria Belletti
3.98 avg rating — 123 ratings 
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Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman
by:
Sam Wasson
3.70 avg rating — 7,489 ratings 
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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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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
44. 
Joan Blondell: A Life between Takes (Hollywood Legends Series)
by:
Matthew Kennedy
4.06 avg rating — 147 ratings 
50. 
The Power of Glamour: The Women Who Defined the Magic of Stardom
by:
Annette Tapert
4.03 avg rating — 105 ratings 
57. 
Hollywood Heroines: Women in Film Noir and the Female Gothic Film
by:
Helen Hanson
4.04 avg rating — 26 ratings 
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Three Plays by Mae West: Sex / The Drag / The Pleasure Man
by:
Mae West
3.69 avg rating — 166 ratings 63. 
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Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries? (Women’s Media History Now!)
by:
Jane M. Gaines
2.77 avg rating — 26 ratings 
68. 
Some Kind of Mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe
by:
Amanda Konkle
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings 69. 
Edna Ferber's Hollywood: American Fictions of Gender, Race, and History
by:
J.E. Smyth
3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings 
71. 
Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves: My Personal Plan for Fitness and Well-Being
by:
Angela Lansbury
4.35 avg rating — 111 ratings 
74. 
Barbara La Marr: The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful for Hollywood
by:
Sherri Snyder
4.48 avg rating — 33 ratings 
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Mary Astor's Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936
by:
Edward Sorel
3.53 avg rating — 1,181 ratings 
89. 
They Had Faces Then: super stars, stars and starlets of the 1930's
by:
John Springer
4.75 avg rating — 28 ratings 
92. 
Ida Lupino, Director: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition
by:
Therese Grisham
3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings 
94. 
The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History
by:
Nathalia Holt
4.18 avg rating — 3,183 ratings 96. 
Leading Ladies: The 50 Most Unforgettable Actresses of the Studio Era 4.28 avg rating — 321 ratings
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Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker (Illustrated Biographies by Chronicle Books) 3.87 avg rating — 4,491 ratings
