GREAT OLD MOVIES

GRANT WILLIAMS , Giancarlo Stampalia. Bearmanor; 2018. It is made clear from the beginning that this is not a traditional biography of ...

James Mason  JAMES MASON. 1909 - 1984. This week Great Old Movies  looks at one of our favorite actors: James Mason. When I was a yout...

CAGNEY BY CAGNEY . James Cagney. Doubleday; 1976. James Cagney had no particular interest in writing his memoirs, but he was tired of au...

THE LIVES OF ROBERT RYAN . J. R. Jones. Wesleyan University Press; 2015. Robert Ryan was never quite in the front rank of iconic movie s...

THE MAN WHO SEDUCED HOLLYWOOD: The Life and Loves of Greg Bautzer, Tinseltown's Most Powerful Lawyer . B. James Gladstone. Chicago Rev...

OLIVIER . Philip Ziegler. MacLehose; 2013. This is a very entertaining overview of the life and career of Lord Laurence Olivier which ma...

A LIFE OF BARBARA STANWYCK: STEEL-TRUE 1907 - 1940. Victoria Wilson. Simon and Schuster; 2013. Wilson's twenty-years-in-the-making 1...

HIGH SOCIETY: THE LIFE OF GRACE KELLY . Donald Spoto. Three Rivers Press/Crown; 2009. This is an entertaining and absorbing look at the ...

JENNIFER JONES: THE LIFE AND FILMS . Paul Green. McFarland; 2011. Author Green makes it clear at the outset that this is less a traditio...

DROPPED NAMES: FAMOUS MEN AND WOMEN AS I KNEW THEM . Frank Langella. HarperCollins; 2012. In this unconventional memoir, actor Frank Lan...

FULL SERVICE: MY ADVENTURES IN HOLLYWOOD AND THE SECRET SEX LIVES OF THE STARS. Scotty Bowers with Lionel Friedberg. Grove Press; 2012. ...