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