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Roddy McDowall (2026)
An Actor's Life - From How Green Was My Valley to Lassie to Planet of the Apes
Publisher: Citadel
Subject: Actor > Roddy McDowall
Gandolfini (2025)
Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend
by Jason Bailey
Publisher: Abrams Books
Subject: Actor > James Gandolfini
Marilyn (2026)
The Lost Photographs, The Last Interview
by Richard Meryman and Allan Grant
Publisher: Weldon Owen
Subject: Actress > Marilyn Monroe
Intimate Audrey (2026)
An Authorized Biography
by Sean Hepburn Ferrer and Wendy Holden
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Subject: Actress > Audrey Hepburn
Biennale de l'image en mouvement 2024 / A Cosmic Movie Camera (2026)
Collective
Publisher: Lenz press
Subject: Theory
The Cinema of Jonathan Demme (2026)
Champion of the Soul
by Louis Black and Steven Fore
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Subject: Director > Jonathan Demme
The Situationist International and the Social Space of Film (2026)
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Sociology
Assayas and Political Seriousness (2026)
by Brian Price
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Subject: Director > Olivier Assayas
The Million Dollar Mermaid (1999)
An Autobiography
by Esther Williams and Digby Diehl
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Subject: Actor > Esther Williams
Hattie McDaniel (2005)
Black Ambition, White Hollywood
by Jill Watts
Publisher: Amistad
Subject: Actress > Hattie McDaniel
Screenwriter (1980)
The Life and Times of Nunnally Johnson
by Tom Stempel
Publisher: A. S. Barnes
Subject: Others persons > Nunnally Johnson
Ava Gardner (2006)
"Love Is Nothing"
by Lee Server
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Subject: Actress > Ava Gardner
The Girl Who Fell Down (2003)
A Biography of Joan McCracken
Publisher: Northeastern University Press
Subject: Actress > Joan McCracken
Life Is a Banquet (1977)
by Rosalind Russell and Chris Chase
Publisher: Random House
Subject: Actor > Rosalind Russell
Movie Stars of the '40s (1985)
A complete reference guide for the film historian or trivia buff
by David Ragan
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Subject: On Films > Per period
Conversations With Joan Crawford (1980)
by Roy Newquist
Publisher: Citadel Press
Subject: Actress > Joan Crawford
Paulette (1985)
The Adventurous Life of Paulette Goddard
by Joe Morella and Edward Z. Epstein
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Subject: Actress > Paulette Goddard
Inherited Risk (2002)
Errol and Sean Flynn in Hollywood and Vietnam
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Subject: Actor > Errol Flynn
Forties Film Talk (1992)
Oral Histories of Hollywood, with 120 Lobby Posters
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: On Films > Per period
Laughing with Lucy (2005)
My Life with America's Leading Lady of Comedy
by Madelyn Pugh Davis and Bob Carroll Jr.
Publisher: Emmis Books
Subject: Actress > Lucille Ball
Lucy at the Movies (2007)
The Complete Films of Lucille Ball
Publisher: Running Press
Subject: Actress > Lucille Ball
Lucy and Desi (1991)
The Legendary Love Story of Television's Most Famous Couple
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Subject: Actress > Lucille Ball
Lucy in the Afternoon (1990)
An Intimate Memoir of Lucille Ball
by Jim Brochu
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Subject: Actress > Lucille Ball
Desilu (1993)
The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
by Coyne Steven Sanders and Tom Gilbert
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Subject: Actress > Lucille Ball
I Loved Lucy (2001)
My Friendship with Lucille Ball
by Lee Tannen
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Subject: Actress > Lucille Ball
Loving Lucy (1980)
An Illustrated Tribute To Lucille Ball
by Bart Andrews and Thomas J. Watson
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Subject: Actress > Lucille Ball
Forever Lucy (1986)
The Life of Lucille Ball
by Joe Morella and Edward Z. Epstein
Publisher: Lyle Stuart
Subject: Actress > Lucille Ball
The Real Story Of Lucille Ball (1954)
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Young
Subject: Actress > Lucille Ball
Lana (2008)
The Memories, the Myths, the Movies
by Cheryl Crane and Cindy De La Hoz
Publisher: Running Press
Subject: Actress > Lana Turner
Lucille Ball Treasures (2023)
Featuring Memorabilia and Photos
Publisher: Chartwell Books
Subject: Actress > Lucille Ball
Ball of Fire (2003)
The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday
Subject: Actress > Lucille Ball
Ladies' Man (1984)
An Autobiography
by Paul Henreid and Julius Fast
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Subject: Actor > Paul Henreid
Robert Mitchum (1984)
A Biography
by George Eells
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Subject: Actor > Robert Mitchum
Hedda and Louella (1972)
A dual biography of Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons
by George Eells
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Ginger, Loretta, and Irene who? (1976)
by George Eells
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Subject: Actress > Loretta Young, Ginger Rogers, Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Ruth Etting, Irene Bentley
The Two of Us (1976)
by Tony Martin, Cyd Charisse and Dick Kleiner
Publisher: Mason/Charter
Subject: Actress > Cyd Charisse, Tony Martin
Buñuel (2002)
100 Years: It's Dangerous to Look Inside
Dir. Enrique Camacho
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
Subject: Director > Luis Buñuel
100 Years Studio Babelsberg (2012)
The Art of Filmmaking
by Michael Wedel, Chris Wahl and Ralf Schenk
Publisher: teNeues
(in English and German)
Subject: Studio > Babelsberg
The Films of Tyrone Power (1979)
by Dennis Belafonte and Alvin H. Marill
Publisher: Citadel Press
Subject: Actor > Tyrone Power
The Secret Life of Tyrone Power (1979)
by Hector Arce
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Subject: Actor > Tyrone Power
The Full Monty (2026)
A play by Simon Beaufoy
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Subject: One Film > The Full Monty
The Films of Aleksandr Rou (2025)
Father of Soviet Fairy-Tale Cinema
Publisher: Intellect Books
Subject: Director > Aleksandr Rou
Style Icons (2026)
Marilyn Monroe: A Dress-Up Paper Doll Book
by Elizabeth Weitzman and Kelly Smith
Publisher: Smith Street Books
Subject: Actress > Marilyn Monroe
Experimental Cinema (2026)
Structures, Systems and Strategies
by Simon Payne
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Beyond the High School Film (2026)
Reaching Adulthood in Everyday Japanese Cinema
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Taiwanese-Language Cinema (2024)
Rediscovered and Reconsidered
by Chris Berry, Wafa Ghermani, Corrado Neri and Ming-yeh Rawnsley
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Visual Culture in Twentieth-Century Germany (2006)
Text as Spectacle
Dir. Gail Finney
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Peter Bogdanovich's Movie of the Week (1999)
52 Classic Films for One Full Year
Publisher: Random House
Subject: On Films > Film selections
The Killing of the Unicorn (1984)
Dorothy Stratten, 1960-1980
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Subject: Actress > Dorothy Stratten
Picture Shows (1975)
Peter Bogdanovich on the movies
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Subject: Director > Peter Bogdanovich
The Moviemakers (1973)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Subject: Director > Edwin S. Porter, David W. Griffith, Cecil B. DeMille, Robert Flaherty, Ernst Lubitsch, Frank Capra, John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick
Wilde in the Dream Factory (2024)
Decadence and the American Movies
by Kate Hext
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
Master Space (1992)
Film Images of Capra, Lubitsch, Sternberg, and Wyler
Publisher: Praeger
Subject: Director > Frank Capra, Ernst Lubitsch, Josef von Sternberg, William Wyler
The Lubitsch touch (1978)
A critical study
Publisher: Dover Publications
Subject: Director > Ernst Lubitsch
Edmund Goulding's Dark Victory (2004)
Hollywood's Genius Bad Boy
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Subject: Director > Edmund Goulding
You Never Know (2026)
A Memoir
by Tom Selleck and Ellis Henican
Publisher: Dey Street Books
Subject: Actor > Tom Selleck
The Art of Looking in Hitchcock's Rear Window (2004)
Publisher: Limelight
Subject: One Film > Rear Window
Jean Arthur (2004)
The Actress Nobody Knew
by John Oller
Publisher: Limelight
Subject: Actress > Jean Arthur
You Thought I Was Dead (2026)
My Life of Celebrities, Sex, and Champagne
Publisher: Permuted Press
Subject: Actress > Mamie Van Doren
Third Real (2026)
Conscious Creation Goes Back to the Movies
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Subject: Sociology
Reframing Margaret Thatcher (2026)
Genre, form, and the making of post-Thatcherism in British film and TV
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Get the Picture?! (2026)
Conscious Creation Goes to the Movies
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Subject: Sociology
Consciously Created Cinema (2026)
The Movie Lover's Guide to the Law of Attraction
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Subject: Sociology
Scarface (2018)
A Novel of Power, Violence, and the Rise of Organized Crime
Publisher: Black Curtain Press
The Celluloid Muse (1969)
Hollywood directors speak
by Charles Higham and Joel Greenberg
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Subject: Director
Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang, and the Nibelungen (1999)
The dramaturgy of disavowal
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: One Film > Die Nibelungen
Fritz Lang (1981)
A Guide to References and Resources
Publisher: G.K. Hall
Subject: Director > Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang (1981)
The Image and the Look
Dir. Stephen Jenkins
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: Director > Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang's Metropolis (2000)
Cinematic Views of Technology and Fear
Dir. Michael Minden and Holger Bachmann
Publisher: Camden House
Subject: One Film > Metropolis
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