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- Starring: John Wayne
- Studio: Media Lab Books
- Release Date: 5/9/2017
- Features: Trade Paperback
- SUMMARY:From the editors of Duke In His Own Words, this leather-bound collection of quotes, anecdotes and advice for living life like Duke makes a great gift for John Wayne fans. |John Wayne was more... more
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- Studio: Media Lab Books
- Release Date: 10/2/2018
- Features: Hardcover
- SUMMARY:From the editor of The John Wayne Code comes The Official John Wayne Handy Book for Men, an illustrated guide to everything Duke believed a man should know how to do. |Any man who has ever... more
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- Studio: McFarland & Company
- Release Date: 12/27/2017
- Features: Trade Paperback
- SUMMARY:Dracula and Frankenstein's Monster are horror cinema icons, and the actors most deeply associated with the two roles also shared a unique friendship. |Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff starred in... more
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- Studio: St Martins Griffin
- Release Date: 12/19/2001
- Features: Trade Paperback
- SUMMARY:In the pre-Code Hollywood era, between 1929 and 1934, women in American cinema took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality, led unapologetic... more
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- Studio: McFarland & Company
- Release Date: 1/29/2010
- Features: Trade Paperback
- SUMMARY:Harold Lloyd, born in 1893, became one of the greatest comic actors in America. This is a compendium of all things Lloyd, with entries on noteworthy persons, recurring themes, crucial... more
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- Studio: Hachette Books
- Release Date: 9/12/2017
- Features: Hardcover
- SUMMARY:Miss D and Me is a story of two powerful women, one at the end of her life and the other at the beginning. As Bette Davis aged she was looking for an assistant, but she found something more... more
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- Studio: Univ of Mississippi
- Release Date: 6/1/2014
- Features: Trade Paperback
- SUMMARY:Joan Blondell: A Life between Takes is the first major biography of the effervescent, scene-stealing actress (1906-1979) who conquered motion pictures, vaudeville, Broadway, summer stock,... more
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- Studio: Taylor Trade Pub.
- Release Date: 2/1/2016
- Features: Trade Paperback
- SYNOPSIS:Fields never got around to writing his autobiography, but at his death in 1946, he left behind a vast assortment of notes, outlines, scrapbooks, letters, scripts, scenarios, and photographs.... more
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- Studio: McFarland & Company
- Release Date: 12/5/2018
- Features: Trade Paperback
- SUMMARY:Hoping to follow his success with Laurel and Hardy with a female comedy team, producer Hal Roach paired Thelma Todd with ZaSu Pitts in a 1931 series of two-reel shorts that were quickly... more
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- Studio: Chicago Review Press
- Release Date: 11/1/2015
- Features: Hardcover
- SUMMARY:A beloved film comedienne who worked alongside the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, and dozens of others, Thelma Todd was a rare Golden Age star who successfully crossed over from silent... more
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- Studio: Three Rivers Press
- Release Date: 10/25/2005
- Features: Trade Paperback
- SUMMARY:For readers of classic Hollywood biographies, like Natasha and Cary Grant, and Clark Gables many fans. |From a critically acclaimed Hollywood biographer, a candid, deliciously detailed... more
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- Studio: Riverhead Books
- Release Date: 11/5/2013
- Features: Trade Paperback
- SUMMARY:The history of 20th-century American entertainmentand the story of one mans extraordinary lifetold through the eyes of his loving daughter. |Using the life and career of her father, an early... more
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- Studio: Quirk Books
- Release Date: 3/19/2019
- Features: Graphic Novel, Hardcover
- SUMMARY:Surrealism meets Hollywood meets film history in this graphic novel, which turns an unproduced script by Salvador Dali into a fantastic comedy starring Groucho, Chico, and Harpo Marx. |Grab... more
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- Studio: McFarland & Company
- Release Date: 7/5/2006
- Features: Trade Paperback
- SUMMARY:Early in the century, Marie Dressler was hailed as one of Americas finest comics, with a 20-year string of Broadway and vaudeville successes including The Lady Slavey, Miss Prinnt, Higgledy... more
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- Studio: McFarland & Company
- Release Date: 9/2/2008
- Features: Trade Paperback
- SUMMARY:Edward G. Robinson, a 1930s cinema icon, had an acting career that spanned more than 60 years. After a brush with silent films, he rose to true celebrity status in sound feature films and... more
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- Studio: Univ of Mississippi
- Release Date: 7/31/2008
- Features: Hardcover
- SUMMARY:Claudette Colbert's mixture of beauty, sophistication, wit, and vivacity quickly made her one of the film industry's most famous and highest-paid stars of the 1930s and 1940s. Though she... more
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- Studio: Univ of Mississippi
- Release Date: 2/3/2012
- Features: Hardcover
- DESCRIPTION:A biography of the savvy, sexy, and inspirationally hardworking actress.Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) rose from the ranks of chorus girl to become one of Hollywood's most talented leading... more
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- Studio: Paladin Communicat
- Release Date: 1/16/2017
- Features: Trade Paperback
- SUMMARY:This fresh look at Hollywood's "Queen of Screwball," Carole Lombard, presents a first-ever examination of the events that led to the shocking flight mishap that took her life on the side of a... more
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- Studio: Ballantine Books
- Release Date: 3/12/1985
- Features: Mass Market Paperback
- SUMMARY:The was the unofficial empress of Hollywood and she spent a lifetime as the mistress of one of America's richest men. Gathered from tapes recroded a decade before Marion Davie's death, read,... more
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- Studio: McFarland & Company
- Release Date: 4/2/2001
- Features: Trade Paperback
- SUMMARY:During the Depression years, the comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey were second only to Laurel and Hardy at the box office. |Each of their over 20 comedies are analyzed in detail... more
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- Studio: McFarland & Company
- Release Date: 1/11/2006
- Features: Trade Paperback
- SUMMARY:Kay Francis came of age in the Roaring Twenties and relished the era's hedonistic pursuits. |Her career as an actress was launched at the same time, and before her death in 1968, she had... more
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- Studio: McFarland & Company
- Release Date: 8/21/2006
- Features: Trade Paperback
- SUMMARY:Actor William Powell is perhaps best known for his roles as charming Nick in The Thin Man films and blustery Clarence Day in Life with Father. As diverse as those characters are, they don't... more
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- Studio: Media Lab Books
- Release Date: 5/8/2018
- Features: Hardcover
- SUMMARY:John Wayne: Made in America, a hardcover book full of photos and memorabilia that showcase Dukes deep love for his country. |Just in time for the Fathers Day gift-giving (as well as the... more
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- Studio: University Press Ky
- Release Date: 9/30/2002
- Features: Hardcover
- SUMMARY:Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography explores the life and career of one of Hollywood's great dames. |She was a leading film personality for more than fifty years, from her beginnings as a... more