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Books About Moviemakers: Performers and Directors and Other Creative People

Movies fascinate and enchant but the mysteries of Hollywood in bygone years leads to an understanding of modern cinema. Writers have been as fascinated as everyone else and the wealth of books available is astounding.
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Something Like a Biography (Akira Kurosawa)
Something Like a Biography (Akira Kurosawa)
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Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu (Simon Callow)
Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu (Simon Callow)
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The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre (Stephen D. Youngkin)
The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre (Stephen D. Youngkin)
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Garbo (Barry Parris)
Garbo (Barry Parris)
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Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty (Diane Keaton)
Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty (Diane Keaton)
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Bette Davis: Larger Than Life (Richard Schickel)
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life (Richard Schickel)
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Katharine Hepburn: Rebel Chic (James Druesdow, Kohle Yohannon)
Katharine Hepburn: Rebel Chic (James Druesdow, Kohle Yohannon)
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Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only (Patrick McGilligan)
Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only (Patrick McGilligan)
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Room 1219: The Life of Fatty Arbuckle (Greg Merritt)
Room 1219: The Life of Fatty Arbuckle (Greg Merritt)
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Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood (Todd McCarthy)
Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood (Todd McCarthy)
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Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne (James Gavin)
Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne (James Gavin)
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William Cameron Menzies: The Shape of Films to Come (James Curtis)
William Cameron Menzies: The Shape of Films to Come (James Curtis)
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My Life So Far (Jane Fonda)
My Life So Far (Jane Fonda)
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Mabel Normand: The Life and Career of a Hollywood Madcap (Timothy Dean Lefler)
Mabel Normand: The Life and Career of a Hollywood Madcap (Timothy Dean Lefler)
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My Autobiography by Charles Chaplin
My Autobiography by Charles Chaplin
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Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy (Imogen Sara Smith)
Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy (Imogen Sara Smith)
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Zhang Yimou: Interviews (Frances Gateward)
Zhang Yimou: Interviews (Frances Gateward)
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Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland (Gerald Clarke)
Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland (Gerald Clarke)
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Marlene Dietrich: Life and Legend (Steven Bach)
Marlene Dietrich: Life and Legend (Steven Bach)
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Bogart (Ann Sperber)
Bogart (Ann Sperber)
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Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me (Marlon Brando, Robert Lindsey)
Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me (Marlon Brando, Robert Lindsey)
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Enchantment- The Life of Audrey Hepburn (Donald Spoto)
Enchantment- The Life of Audrey Hepburn (Donald Spoto)
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Jimmy Stewart: A Biography (Marc Eliot)
Jimmy Stewart: A Biography (Marc Eliot)
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Frank Capra the Name Above the Title (Frank Capra)
Frank Capra the Name Above the Title (Frank Capra)
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The Casablanca Man: The Cinema of Michael Curtiz (Dr. James C. Robertson)
The Casablanca Man: The Cinema of Michael Curtiz (Dr. James C. Robertson)
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Which Lie Did I Tell? (William Goldman)
Which Lie Did I Tell? (William Goldman)
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Maggie Smith (Michael Coveney)
Maggie Smith (Michael Coveney)
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A Girl's Got to Breathe: Teresa Wright (Donald Spoto)
A Girl's Got to Breathe: Teresa Wright (Donald Spoto)
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Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty (Bernard F. Dick)
Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty (Bernard F. Dick)
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Max Steiner: Composing, Casablanca and the Golden Age of Film Music (Peter Wegele)
Max Steiner: Composing, Casablanca and the Golden Age of Film Music (Peter Wegele)
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The Measure of a Man (Sidney Poitier)
The Measure of a Man (Sidney Poitier)
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By Myself and Then Some (Lauren Bacall)
By Myself and Then Some (Lauren Bacall)
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Harold Lloyd: Magic in a Pair of Horn-Rimmed Glasses (Annette D'Agostino Lloyd)
Harold Lloyd: Magic in a Pair of Horn-Rimmed Glasses (Annette D'Agostino Lloyd)
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Fonda: My Life (Henry Fonda)
Fonda: My Life (Henry Fonda)
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Sylvia Sidney: Paid by the Tear (Scott O'Brien)
Sylvia Sidney: Paid by the Tear (Scott O'Brien)
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Helen Twelvetrees: Perfect Ingenue (Cliff Aliperti)
Helen Twelvetrees: Perfect Ingenue (Cliff Aliperti)
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Hattie Mcdaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood (Jill Watts)
Hattie Mcdaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood (Jill Watts)
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Edith Head (Jay Jorgensen)
Edith Head (Jay Jorgensen)
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James Wong Howe: The Camera Eye (Alain Silver, James Wong Howe)
James Wong Howe: The Camera Eye (Alain Silver, James Wong Howe)
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The Times We Had...Life With William Randolph Hearst (Marion Davies)
The Times We Had...Life With William Randolph Hearst (Marion Davies)
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