Once upon a time, Hollywood was a place of mythical importance, with film stars as the aristocracy of the 20th century, the kings and queens of a new era. Hollywood seems so different these days, and it can be easy to see why someone would yearn back to the days of glitz, glamour, and glory. This list contains books that will transport you to those halcyon times.
Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud by Shaun Considine
Having been adapted into rollicking and wildly entertaining tv show from acclaimed creator Ryan Murphy, this books manages to capture the essence of two of Hollywood’s biggest, and boldest, divas. Joan Crawford was the elegant picture of studio perfecting, and Bette Davis the brash and uncompromising upstart talent. Their feud would become a seething tempest of hatred that not only consumed their lives but left a path of betrayal and ruin in its wake. Through painstaking research and interviews, this book is a comprehensive chronicle of two stars who would do anything to outshine each other.
Harlow in Hollywood by Darrell Rooney and Mark A. Vieira
At once both an astonishing and deeply moving profile of a young woman who went on to become not only Hollywood’s biggest star, but the template for many that would follow. Jean Harlow’s journey from small-town obscurity to stardom and then a sorrowful end, is in many ways the archetypal Hollywood tale. The book also encapsulates how myth and reality often became intertwined, and the almost Greek tragedy like narratives that would fuel the Hollywood machine, often at the cost of individual lives.
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