GREAT OLD MOVIES

ANN SHERIDAN: THE LIFE AND CAREER OF HOLLYWOOD'S OOMPH GIRL . Michael D. Rinella. McFarland; 2024.  Never quite in the front rank along ...

MARGARET SULLAVAN: THE LIFE AND CAREER OF A RELUCTANT STAR . Michael D. Rinella. McFarland; 2019.  Margaret Sullavan drove the studios she w...

THE FILMS OF DORIS DAY . Christopher Young. Citadel Press; 1977.   This was one of the picture-packed oversized volumes of Citadel Press...

W. C. FIELDS A biography . James Curtis. 2003; Alfred A. Knopf. This is an excellent biography of the great comedian W. C. Fields, from his ...

YUL BRYNNER: THE INSCRUTABLE KING . Jhan Robbins. Dodd, Mead; 1987. Yul Brynner was a man who liked to make up stories about his past life, ...

A FRONT ROW SEAT: An Intimate Look at Broadway, Hollywood, and the Age of Glamour. Nancy Olson Livingstone. University Press of Kentucky; 20...

BURT LANCASTER: An American Life . Kate Buford. Knopf; 2000.  Tracing his pathway from the rough streets of New York's Harlem to a stint...

STRAIGHT SHOOTING Robert Stack with Mark Evans. Macmillan; 1980.  Robert Stack was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Written on the Win...

THE QUEEN OF TECHNICOLOR: MARIA MONTEZ IN HOLLYWOOD . Tom Zimmerman. University Press of Kentucky; 2022. NOTE: This review based on uncorrec...

AGE OF CAGE: Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Singular Career . Keith Phipps. Henry Holt; 2022.  Author Phipps makes it clear right fro...

OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND: LADY TRIUMPHANT . Victoria Amador. University Press of Kentucky; 2020. The author of this bio, a life-long De Havilland...

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO ORSON WELLES? A Portrait of an Independent Career . Joseph McBride. University Press of Kentucky.  What Ever Happened ...

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

A LIFE OF WILLIAM INGE: The Strains of Triumph . Ralph F. Voss. 1989; University Press of Kansas. William Inge wrote several noteworthy...

JANE WYMAN: A BIOGRAPHY . Joe Morella and Edward Z. Epstein. Delacorte; 1985. Jane Wyman had a distinguished career with one Oscar win,...

JACK LEMMON . Michael Freedland. St. Martin's; 1985. This overview of Lemmon's life and career is a fast read which gives most ...

HOLLYWOOD MADONNA: LORETTA YOUNG . Bernard F. Dick. University Press of Mississippi; 2011. This career study posing as a biography brie...

MARY MARTIN, BROADWAY LEGEND . Ronald L. Davis. University of Oklahoma Press; 2008. Biographer Davis was hampered by his obvious contem...

DEBRA PAGET, FOR EXAMPLE  (2016). Writer/director: Mark Rappaport. Debra Paget was one of a legion of Hollywood contract players who did...

CHARLES WALTERS: THE DIRECTOR WHO MADE HOLLYWOOD DANCE. Brent Phillips. University Press of Kentucky; 2017. This excellent biography loo...