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 | "Mirrors of Hollywood: With Brief Biographies of Favorite Film Folk" [1925] by Charles Donald Fox, Foreword by Will H. Hays Charles Renard Corp., New York hardcover [1925] out of print/scarce Charles Renard Corp., New York hardcover [1925] out of print/scarce Charles Renard Corp., New York hardcover [1925] out of print/scarce |
 | "Mayer and Thalberg: The Make Believe Saints" [1975] by Samuel Marx New Millennium Press pb [11/2003] for $16.94 Warner Books mass pb [11/80] out of print/used |
 | "Some Time In The Sun: The Hollywood Years of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Nathanael West, Aldous Huxley & James Agee" [1981] by Tom Dardis Limelight pb [2/99] for $12.95 |
 | "Backstory 1: Interviews With Screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age" [1986] Edited by Patrick McGilligan Univ California Press 9x6 pb [11/89] for $24.95 Univ California Press hardcover [12/86] out of print/used |
 | "Backstory 2: Interviews With Screenwriters of The 1940s and 1950s" [1991] Edited by Patrick McGilligan Univ Calif Press 9x6 pb [5/97] for $24.95 Univ Calif Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [6/91] out of print/used |
 | "Just Tell Me When To Cry: A Memoir" [1993] by Richard Fleischer
Carroll & Graf 9½x6½ pb [7/93] out of print/many used the author was the son of the head of Fleischer Animation Studios [1921-42], and his directing career [1943-89] included working with Charles Bronson, Walt Disney, Kirk Douglas, Rex Harrison, Charlton Heston, Howard Hughes, Robert Mitchum, Laurence Olivier, Edward G. Robinson, Arnold Schwartzenegger, John Wayne, Orson Welles, Darryl Zanuck, and many others |
 | "Hollywood On The Couch: A Candid Look At The Overheated Love Affair Between Psychiatrists and Moviemakers" [1993] by Stephen Farber & Marc Green This book contains many factual and interpretive errors, including the shallow opinionation about Werner Erhard and the early est Training seminars William Morrow & Co. 9½x6½ hardcover [11/93] for $26.77 |
 | "Backstory 3: Interviews With Screenwriters of The 1960s" [1997] Edited by Patrick McGilligan Univ Calif Press 9x6 pb [3/97] for $24.95 Univ Calif Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [3/97] out of print/used |
 | "The Hand Behind The Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story" [Disney Oct 1999] documentary feature directed by Leslie Iwerks Disney Home Video VHS [9/2001] for $19.99 full credits from IMDb companion book "The Hand Behind the Mouse: An Intimate Biography of Ub Iwerks" [2001] by Leslie Iwerks & John D. Kenworthy Hyperion 9½x6½ hardcover [5/2001] for $17.47 Ub Iwerks credits at IMDb |
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"Budd Schulberg" [2001] by Nicholas Beck The first full biography of the son of a Paramount studio mogul who was a novelist – "What Makes Sammy Run?" {see below} & others – short story writer, playwright, Oscar-winning screenwriter – "On The Waterfront" [1954] – and journalist. Rowman & Littlefield 8¾x5½ hardcover [9/2001] for $35.00 Budd Schulberg's credits at IMDb |
 | "Walt Disney's Nine Old Men" [2001] by John Canemaker Hyperion 12¼x9¼ hardcover [10/2001] for $42.00 |
 | "The Keystone Kid: Tales of Early Hollywood" [2001] by Coy Watson, Jr. Santa Monica Press 10¾x8½ pb [11/2001] for $24.95 |
 | "Silent Players: A Biographical & Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film Actors & Actresses" [2002] by Anthony Slide
Univ Press KY 10¼x7¼ hardcover [9/2002] for $28.00 |
 | "Talking To The Piano Player, Volume 1: Silent Film Stars, Writers, and Directors Remember" [2004] by Stuart Oderman interviews with some important people of the bygone Silent Era: Madge Bellamy, Betty Bronson, Frank Capra, Jackie Coogan, Jerry Devine, Marlene Dietrich, Minta Durfee, Allan Dwan, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Anita Garvin, Leatrice Joy, Anita Loos, Patsy Ruth Miller, Colleen Moore, Ann Pennington, Aileen Pringle, Dorothy Davenport (Mrs. Wallace) Reid, Billie Rhodes, Adela Rogers St. Johns, Constance Talmadge, Lois Wilson, and Claire Windsor – includes photographs taken at the time of the interviews BearManor Media 9x6 pb [10/2004] for $19.95 |
 | "The Golden West: Hollywood Stories" [2005] by Daniel Fuchs [1909-93]; Introduction by John Updike includes short fiction & non-fiction, and the novella "West of The Rockies" (1971) Black Sparrow 8½x6 pb [10/2006] for $16.95 Black Sparrow/Godine 9x6 hardcover [5/2005] for $24.83 Daniel Fuchs's credits [1939-95] at IMDb |
 | "Lion of Hollywood: The Life & Legend of Louis B. Mayer" [2005] by Scott Eyman S&S 9¼x6½ hardcover [4/2005] for $22.05 Chrysalis Books hardcover [5/2005] out of print/used |
 | "Backstory 4: Interviews With Screenwriters of The 1970s & 1980s" [2006] by Patrick McGilligan Univ CA Press pb [1/2006] for $18.96 Univ CA Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [1/2006] for $60.00 |
 | "Under The Rainbow: An Intimate Memoir of Judy Garland, Rock Hudson & My Life In Old Hollywood" [2006] by John Carlyle [1931-2003] mixed reviews, but the book may be of interest to fans of the Fifties and-or of Judy Garland Da Capo Press 8¾x5½ pb [10/2007] for $15.00 Da Capo Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/2006] for $26.95 |
 | "Talking To The Piano Player, Volume 2: Stars, Writers & Bandleaders Remember" [2009] by Stuart Oderman interviews with prominent personalities from music and film: Tallulah Bankhead, Vivian Blaine, Janet Blair, Joan Blondell, David Burns, Lita Grey Chaplin, Gloria DeHaven, Lou Jacobi, Veronica Lake, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Ann Miller, Harry Richman, Artie Shaw, Vera-Ellen, Marie Windsor – includes photographs taken at the time of the interviews Kindle Edition from BearManor Media [10/2010] for $9.95 BearManor Media 9x6 pb [2/2009] for $19.95 |
 | "American Classic Screen: Interviews" [2010] Edited by John C. Tibbetts & James M. Welsh, Foreword by Kevin Brownlow Scarecrow Press 8¾x6 pb [8/2010] for $36.52 American Classic Screen Magazine [1976-86] was published by The National Film Society; these exclusive interviews have long been difficult or impossible to access, but are now collected by editors Tibbetts & Welsh; the Interviews include: Fred Astaire, Joan Bennett, Bernard Brown, Kevin Brownlow, Frank Capra, William Clothier, Buster Crabbe, Olivia de Havilland, Stanley Donen, Olivia DeHavilland, Irene Dunne, William K. Everson, Joan Fontaine, Friz Freleng, Margaret Hamilton, Winton C. Hoch, Ollie Johnston, Henry King, Mervyn Le Roy, Fred MacMurray, Glen MacWilliams, Rouben Mamoulian, Mike Mazurki, Clarence 'Ducky' Nash, Paul Newman, Hermes Pan, Robert Preston, Esther Ralston, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, and Jane Withers |
 | "American Classic Screen: Profiles" [2010] Edited by John C. Tibbetts & James M. Welsh, Preface by Ray Bradbury Scarecrow Press 8¾x6 pb [9/2010] for $40.00 American Classic Screen Magazine [1976-86] was published by The National Film Society; these exclusive profiles have long been difficult or impossible to access, but are now collected by editors Tibbetts & Welsh; the Profiles include: James Cagney and Mae Clarke; George Cukor and Kate Hepburn; Bette Davis and Claude Rains; Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, George Bancroft, Charles T. Barton, Warner Baxter, Ralph Bellamy, Beulah Bondi, George M. Cohan, Cecil B. DeMille, Charlotte 'Alice' Henry, Orval Hixon, Boris Karloff, Barbara La Marr, Elissa Landi, Joseph H. Lewis, Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, child star Peggy-Jean 'Baby Peggy' Montgomery, Walter Plunkett, Eleanor Powell, Robert Redford, Mickey Rooney, Victor Sjöström, Kenneth Strickfaden, cowboy star Fred Thomson, Cornel Wilde, and Natalie Wood |
 | "American Classic Screen: Features" [2010] Edited by John C. Tibbetts & James M. Welsh, Foreword by Gene D. Phillips Scarecrow Press 9x6 pb [11/2010] for $50.00 American Classic Screen Magazine [1976-86] was published by The National Film Society; these exclusive articles have long been difficult or impossible to access, but are now collected by editors Tibbetts & Welsh; the Feature Article topics include: King Vidor's "The Big Parade" [1925], D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of A Nation" [1915], Orson Welles's "Citizen Kane" [1941], Olivia De Havilland, Walt Disney's unfinished projects, John Ford, "The Jazz Singer" [1927], "King Kong" [1933], Stanley Kubrick, and Marilyn Monroe |
 | "Of All The Gin Joints: Stumbling Through Hollywood History - With 40 Cocktail Recipes" [2014] Written by Mark Bailey, Illustrated by Edward Hemingway Stories of seventy of our most beloved actors, directors, and screenwriters at their most soused, detailed in bite-size biographies followed by ribald anecdotes, memorable quotes, and ten drink recipes; featuring iconic silver-screen legends Humphrey Bogart, Bing Crosby, Ava Gardner, Dennis Hopper, Mary Pickford, and Natalie Wood – among many others Kindle Edition from Algonquin Books [9/2014] for $10.99 Algonquin Books hardcover [9/2014] for $13.70 |
Hollywood & Women
 | "From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women In The Movies" [1974; 2nd edition 1987] by Molly Haskell Univ Chicago Press pb [10/87] for $12.92 Univ Chicago Press hardcover [10/87] out of print/used Holt Rinehart Winston hardcover [1/74] out of print/used |
 | "The Memoirs of Alice Guy Blaché" [1986] Translated by Roberta & Simone Blaché, edited by Anthony Slide The only woman filmmaker to this day who owned her own studio. Scarecrow Press 8½x5½ hardcover [5/96] for $29.50 Scarecrow Press hardcover [8/86] out pf print/used |
 | "The Desire To Desire: The Woman's Film of The 1940s" [1987] by Mary Ann Doane Indiana Univ Press 9&frax14x6 pb [6/87] for $22.95 Indiana Univ Press hardcover [6/87] out of print/used |
 | "Calling The Shots: Profiles of Women Filmmakers" [1993] Edited by Janis Cole and Holly Dale Quarry Press 9¼x6¼ pb [8/94] out of print/used "Calling The Shots: Profiles of Women Filmmakers" documentary film [indep Oct 1988] Co-written & co-directed by Janis Cole and Holly Dale color DVD available only at Direct Cinema Ltd. for$29.95 full credits at IMDb |
 | "A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke To Women, 1930-1960" [1993] by Jeanine Basinger Wesleyan Univ Press 9¼x6 pb [5/95] for $17.61 Knopf 9½x6½ hardcover [8/93] out of print/many used |
 | "The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors" [1996] by Anthony Slide Scarecrow Press 8½x5½ pb [6/96] for $41.25 45-minute companion video [1994] Directed by Jeffrey Goodman & Anthony Slide; narrated by Jane Wyatt Direct Cinema Ltd. DVD [7/2009] for $29.95 full credits at IMDb "Early Women Directors" [1977] by Anthony Slide Da Capo Press hardcover [1/84] out of print/used A.S. Barnes hardcover [1/77] out of print/used |
 | "Without Lying Down: Frances Marion & The Powerful Women of Early Hollywood" [1997] by Cari Beauchamp Univ California Press 9x6 pb [5/98] for $13.97 Scribner 9½x6½ hardcover [3/97] out of print/used tv movie [Chaise Lounge/UCLA 2000]: full credits from IMDb Image Ent. b&w/color DVD [3/2003] for $26.99 Milestone color/b&w VHS [11/2001] out of prodn/used see also Francis Marion at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore |
 | "Women Behind The Camera: Conversations With Camerawomen" [1997] by Alexis Krasilovsky Praeger 9¼x6 pb [4/97] for $35.00 Praeger 9¾x6½ hardcover [4/97] for $67.95 author credits at IMDb "Women Behind The Camera" documentary film [2007] video/DVD not available • full credits at IMDb • official movie site |
 | "When Women Call The Shots: The Developing Power & Influence of Women In Television & Film" [1997] by Dr. Linda Seger iUniverse 9x6 pb [1/2003] for $21.95 Holt pb [12/97] out of print/used |
 | "Complicated Women: Sex & Power In Pre-Code Hollywood" [2000] by Mick LaSalle St. Martin/Griffin 9¼x6 pb [12/2001] for $11.53 St. Martin 9½x6½ hardcover [9/2000] out of print/used |
 | "Great Women of Film" [2002] by Helena Lumme, photographs by Mika Manninen Billboard Books 10½x9 pb [3/2002] for $29.95 |
 | "Alice Guy Blaché: Lost Visionary of The Cinema" [2002] by Alison McMahan "A monumental job ..." — Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times Continuum 9.4x6.4 hardcover [3/2002] for $24.50 |
 | "Women Who Run The Show: How A Brilliant & Creative New Generation of Women Stormed Hollywood, 1973-2000" [2002] by Mollie Gregory
St. Martin 9½x6½ hardcover [8/2002] for $18.87 |
 | "Women Filmmakers: Refocusing" [2003] Edited by by Jacqueline Levitin, Judith Plessis & Valerie Raoul contributors and subjects include Maria Luisa Bemberg, Helma Sanders Brahms, Doris Dorrie, Agnieszka Holland, E. Ann Kaplan, Deepa Mehta, Helke Misselwitz, Pratibha Parmar, Patricia Plattner, Sally Potter, Margarethe von Trotta, Lina Wertmuller, and Ann Wheeler Routledge 9x6½ pb [6/2003] for $33.25 U.B.C. Press 9x6¼ hardcover [2/2003] out of print/used |
 | "Women Through The Lens: Gender & Nation In A Century of Chinese Cinema" [2003] by Shugin Cui Univ HI Press 8¾x6 pb [3/2008] for $28.00 Univ HI Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [3/2003] for $42.00 |
 | "An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women In Early American Films, 1895-1930" [2004] by Denise Lowe Routledge 8¼x6 pb [12/2004] for $59.95 Routledge 9x6¼ hardcover [12/2004] for $120.60 |
 | "Projections 13: Women Filmmakers On Filmmaking" [2005] Edited by Isabella Weibrecht & John Boorman interviewees include Allison Anders, Susanne Bier, Claire Binns, Rosa Bosch, Denise Breton, Lisa Cholodenko, Pauline Kael, Anna Karina, Katia Lund, Frances McDormand, Heather McGowan, Rebecca Miller, Emily Mortimer, Ramona Sánchez & Libby Savill Faber & Faber 9x6 pb [1/2005] for $24.64 |
 | "Women Filmmakers In Early Hollywood" [2006] by Karen Ward Mahar Johns Hopkins Univ Press hardcover [10/2006] for $42.30 |
 | "The Red Velvet Seat: Women's Writings On The First Fifty Years of Cinema" [2006] Edited by Antonia Lant & Ingrid Periz Contributors include Jane Addams, Betty Balfour, Djuna Barnes, Iris Barry, Sarah Bernhardt, Lillie Devereux Blake, Elizabeth Bowen, Colette, Barbara Deming, Maya Deren, Germaine Dulac, Zelda Fitzgerald, Janet Flanner, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Lillian Gish, Imagist poet H.D., Fannie Hurst, Milena Jesenska, Anita Loos, Barbara Low, Marie Stopes, Mary Heaton Vorse, Fredi Washington, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf Verso 9x6 pb [12/2006] for $32.29 Verso hardcover [12/2006] for $94.95 |
 | "Cupboards of Curiosity: Women, Recollection & Film History" [2007] by Amelie Hastie Duke Univ Press 9¼x6 pb [1/2007] for $22.95 Duke Univ Press hardcover [1/2007] for $79.95 |
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"Dangerous Curves Atop Hollywood Heels: The Lives, Careers, and Misfortunes of 14 Hard-Luck Girls of The Silent Screen" [2009] by Michael G. Ankerich
featuring 14 silent film actresses: Agnes Ayres [92 credits, 1914-37 - including "The Sheik" opposite Valentino]; Olive Borden [51 credits, 1923-34]; Grace Darmond [67 credits, 1914-61]; Elinor Fair [53 credits, 1916-34]; Juanita Hansen [46 credits, 1914-41 - including star of the 1920 Warner Bros. serial "The Lost City"]; Wanda Hawley [83 credits, 1917-31 - including "The Young Rajah" opposite Valentino]; Natalie Joyce [47 credits, 1922-32]; Barbara La Marr [27 credits, 1920-26]; Martha Mansfield [29 credits, 1917-24 - including John Barrymore's 1920 "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"]; Mary Nolan [37 credits, 1925-33]; Marie Prevost [120 credits, 1915-36 - including Ernst Lubitsch's 1924 "The Marriage Circle"]; Lucille Ricksen [36 credits, 1920-25]; Eve Southern [38 credits, 1916-36]; and Alberta Vaughn [140 credits, 1921-35 - including "Randy Rides Alone" opposite John Wayne] Kindle Edition from BearManor Media [11/2013] for $9.95 BearManor Media 9x6 pb [4/2015] for $26.95 BearManor Media 9x6 pb [12/2010] out of print/used BearManor Media 9x6 pb [12/2010] out of print/used BearManor Media 9x6 pb [12/2009] out of print/used |
 | "Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change In Early Hollywood" [2010] by Mark Garrett Cooper During its first decade of operation, Universal Pictures employed eleven female movie directors, but by the mid-1920s, they all were gone. Author looks at issues of institutional change, and the careers of women directors Ruth Ann Baldwin, Cleo Madison, Ida May Park, Ruth Stonehouse & Elise Jane Wilson, serials star Grace Cunard & auteur Lois Weber Univ Illinois Press 9x6 pb [3/2010] for $25.00 Univ Illinois Press 9x6¼ hardcover [3/2010] out of print/used |
http://www.amazon.com/Filmmakers-Hollywood-Studies-Industry-Society/dp/0801890845/
"Women's Film and Female Experience, 1940-1950" [Sept 1986] by Andrea S. Walsh
http://www.amazon.com/Womens-Film-Female-Experience-1940-1950/dp/0275925994/
"Feminism and Film" [June 1997] by Maggie Humm
http://www.amazon.com/Feminism-Film-Maggie-Humm/dp/0253211468/
Fiction About Hollywood & Cinema
 | "The Hollywood Novel: A Critical Guide To Over 1200 Works With Film-Related Themes or Characters, 1912-1994" [1995] by Anthony Slide McFarland & Co. 9¼x6¼ pb [7/95] for $49.95 |
 | "Hollywood Fictions: The Dream Factory In American Literature" [2000] by John Parris Springer Univ OK Press 9x6 pb [2/2000] out of print/used Univ OK Press hardcover [2/2000] out of print/used |
Stuart M. Kaminsky's Toby Peters mystery series [1977-2004]
at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
two dozen novels set in Hollywood during the 1940s & 1950s
Susan Kandel's Cece Caruso mystery series [2004-2009]
at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
set in Hollywood & Southern California; the five books involve Agatha Christie,
Nancy Drew, Erle Stanley Gardner, Dashiell Hammett & Alfred Hitchcock
Jack Bludis has written several Hollywood-based detective mystery series
Rick Knight series set during the 1940s
Brian Kane series set during the 1950s
The number of books in this Fiction Section grew so large
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