Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn

Marilyn Monroe: The Biography

Donald Spoto · 864 pages

Bombshell: The Life and Death of Jean Harlow

David Stenn · 369 pages

Her name epitomizes an era, a decade of Depression in which harsh reality created a demand for lush film fantasy - and no Hollywood star was as luscious or fantastic as Jean Harlow. She was MGM's most bankable asset, a blonde bombshell whose bleached hair, voluptuous body, and bawdy humor inspired a fervent cult following that remains to this day.

Elizabeth

J. Randy Taraborrelli · 560 pages

For more than six decades Elizabeth Taylor has been a part of our lives. Now acclaimed biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli looks past the tabloid version of Elizabeth's life and offers the first-ever fully realized portrait of this American icon. You'll meet her controlling mother who plotted her daughter's success from birth...see the qualities that catapulted Elizabeth to stardom in 1940s Hollywood

Marilyn Monroe: Private And Undisclosed

Michelle Morgan · 288 pages

An illustrated biography of actress Marilyn Monroe featuring photographs that have not been previously published.

Paul Newman: A Life

Shawn Levy · 490 pages

Paul Newman, the Oscar-winning actor with the legendary blue eyes, achieved superstar status by playing charismatic renegades, broken heroes, and winsome antiheroes in such revered films as The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Verdict, The Color of Money, and Nobody's Fool. But Newman was also an oddity in Hollywood: the rare box-office titan who cared about the cra

Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations

Peter Evans, Ava Gardner · 293 pages

A self-portrait of the late film legend's golden-era Hollywood life traces her impoverished childhood in North Carolina through the heights of her career, sharing details of her relationships with such figures as Mickey Rooney, Frank Sinatra, and George C. Scott.

Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leigh

Alexander Walker · 342 pages

Joss Whedon: The Biography

Amy Pascale · 444 pages

"Follows [Whedon's] development from a creative child and teenager who spent years away from his family at an elite English public school, through his early successes--which often turned into frustrating heartbreak in both television (Roseanne) and film (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)--to his breakout turn as the creator, writer, and director of the Buffy television series [to his work on the blockbust

Jimmy Stewart: A Biography

Marc Eliot · 480 pages

The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick

Mallory O'Meara · 368 pages

Marilyn

Gloria Steinem · 182 pages

Using the last photographs taken before Marilyn Monroe's death, Gloria Steinem completes the project the actress and the photographer were working on: a book to "set the record straight."

Montgomery Clift: A Biography

Patricia Bosworth · 438 pages

Johnny Carson

Henry Bushkin · 294 pages

A revealing and incisive account of the King of Late Night at the height of his fame and power, by his lawyer, wingman, fixer, and closest confidant. From 1962 until 1992, Johnny Carson hosted The Tonight Show and permeated the American consciousness. In the '70s and '80s he was the country's highest-paid entertainer and its most enigmatic. He was notoriously inscrutable, as mercurial (and sometim

His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra

Kitty Kelley · 592 pages

Meghan: A Hollywood Princess

Andrew Morton · 253 pages

Kate Remembered

A. Scott Berg · 347 pages

Chronicles the life of Katharine Hepburn, based on conversations with the actress during the last decade before her death.

Marilyn

Norman Mailer · 272 pages

Profiles the Hollywood star's tragic life and explores her complexity as a woman and actress.

Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind

Gavin Edwards · 273 pages

In Last Night at the Viper Room, acclaimed author and journalist Gavin Edwards vividly recounts the life and tragic death of acclaimed actor River Phoenix--a teen idol on the fast track to Hollywood royalty who died of a drug overdose in front of West Hollywood's storied club, the Viper Room, at the age of 23. Last Night at the Viper Room explores the young star's life, including his childhood in

Grace

Robert Lacey · 510 pages

Long before she became a princess, Grace Kelly was a legend, a fabled movie star whose aloof and aristocratic bearing belied a deep sensuality within. Grace the icon and Grace the woman were two very different creatures, and now celebrated biographer Robert Lacey has managed to unearth the secrets beneath her serene surface. In Grace, he presents the first balanced portrait of a complex, deeply co

Last Girl Before Freeway: The Life, Loves, Losses, and Liberation of Joan Rivers

Leslie Bennetts · 419 pages

"Joan Rivers was more than a legendary comedian; she was an icon and a role model to millions, a fearless pioneer who left a legacy of expanded opportunity when she died in 2014. Her life was a dramatic roller-coaster of triumphant highs and devastating lows: the suicide of her husband, her feud with Johnny Carson, her estrangement from her daughter, her many plastic surgeries, her ferocious ambit

Empire: The Life, Legend, and Madness of Howard Hughes

Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele · 687 pages

Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe

Anthony Summers · 415 pages

Natasha: The Biography Of Natalie Wood

Suzanne Finstad · 387 pages

***Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood* is a well-written exploration into the experience, life, and ultimate tragedy of one of Hollywood's most beautiful and gifted stars. It reveals in poignant and often harrowing detail, the abuse and exploitation that the legendary starlet endured to reach the pinnacle of success.**

John Wayne: The Life and Legend

Scott Eyman · 682 pages

"A revelatory biography of the enduringly popular John Wayne that draws on more than 100 interviews as well as exclusive access to the files of Wayne's film production company to answer the question why he became and remains an iconic American figure"--