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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorWatch Me
Anjelica Huston · 389 pages
"Picking up where A Story Lately Told leaves off, when Anjelica Huston is 22 years old, Watch Me is a chronicle of her glamorous and eventful Hollywood years. She writes about falling in love with Jack Nicholson and her adventurous, turbulent, high-profile, spirited 17-year relationship with him and his intoxicating circle of friends. She writes about learning how to act, about her Academy Award-w
One Helluva Ride
Michael Douglas with Shane Salerno and Michael Fleming Jr
The Hollywood icon shares stories about his career and relationships.
My Wicked, Wicked Ways
Errol Flynn · 383 pages
Autobiography of the actor, Errol Flynn, touching on his youth in New Guinea and his Hollywood career.
Songs My Mother Taught Me
Marlon Brando, Robert Lindsey · 527 pages
"This is Marlon Brando's own story, and his reason for telling it is best revealed in his own words: "I have always considered my life a private affair and the business of no one beyond my family and those I love. Except for moral and political issues that aroused in me a desire to speak out, I have done my utmost throughout my life, for the sake of my children and myself, to remain silent...But n
Swanson on Swanson
Gloria Swanson · 535 pages
Once the most famous woman in the world, she still found time to be a loving mother. Worshipped by the world's most dynamic men on screen, and off, and adored by no less than six husbands, directed by such powerhouses as Chaplin, DeMille, Stroheim, Billy Wilder, she surrendered her will to no man. Offered a million-plus tax free dollars by Paramount, she defied the studio to become her own boss. S
The Lonely Life
Bette Davis · 275 pages
Her early struggles for a stage career, unhappy marriages, hard work and success told in a lighthearted, bantering style.
By Myself
Lauren Bacall · 506 pages
L'actrice, dont le rêve d'enfant était de devenir comédienne de théâtre, retrace son parcours dans le monde du cinéma tout en évoquant ses fragilités et ses fiertés.
Life is a Banquet
Rosalind Russell, Chris Chase · 260 pages
The Steps
Sylvester Stallone
The Hollywood icon describes the challenges he encountered during his childhood and the start of his career.
Tippi: A Memoir
Tippi Hedren · 275 pages
"In this absorbing and surprising memoir, one of the biggest names of classic Hollywood—the star of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds and Marnie—tells her story, including never-before-revealed experiences on the set of some of the biggest cult films of all time,"--Amazon.com. For decades, Tippi Hedren's luminous beauty enchanted moviegoers and cemented her among Hollywood's elite. From Alfred Hitchco
Pieces of My Heart: A Life
Robert J. Wagner, Scott Eyman · 393 pages
In this moving memoir, Robert J. Wagner opens his heart to share the romances, the drama, and the humor of an incredible lifeHe grew up in Bel Air next door to a golf course that changed his life. As a young boy, he saw a foursome playing one morning featuring none other than Fred Astaire, Clark Gable, Randolph Scott, and Cary Grant. Seeing these giants of the silver screen awed him and fueled his
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
Steve Martin · 216 pages
The author shares the stories of his years in stand-up comedy in a humorous memoir that recalls a first job selling guidebooks at Disneyland, his early magic and comedy act, his years of honing his craft, and the sacrifice, discipline, and originality it took to take him to the top.
Shelley: Also Known as Shirley
Shelley Winters · 511 pages
But Enough About Me: A Memoir
Burt Reynolds, Jon Winokur · 302 pages
Unsinkable: A Memoir
Debbie Reynolds, Dorian Hannaway
So That Happened: My Unexpected Life in Hollywood
Jon Cryer · 337 pages
Wishful Drinking
Carrie Fisher · 163 pages
Fisher comes clean (well, sort of) with the crazy truth that is her life, in her first-ever memoir.
The Million Dollar Mermaid
Esther Williams, Digby Diehl · 416 pages
Stories I Only Tell My Friends
Rob Lowe · 344 pages
A teen idol at fifteen, an international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at twenty, and one of Hollywood's top stars to this day, Rob Lowe chronicles his experiences as a painfully misunderstood child actor in Ohio uprooted to the wild counterculture of mid-seventies Malibu, where he embarked on his unrelenting pursuit of a career in Hollywood.