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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Elephant to Hollywood
Michael Caine · 406 pages
Caine shares the spectacular story of his life, from his humble upbringing in London's poverty-stricken Elephant and Castle to his military service and lively adventures to legendary meetings with fellow stars and his glittering five-decade career.
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.
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.
Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star
Tab Hunter · 416 pages
My Happy Days in Hollywood: A Memoir
Garry Marshall · 276 pages
A lighthearted account by the producer and director of such productions as "Laverne & Shirley" and "Pretty Woman" traces his Bronx childhood, role in shaping A-list celebrity careers, and personal philosophies about life and entertainment.
I Blame Dennis Hopper: And Other Stories from a Life Lived In and Out of the Movies
Illeana Douglas
"In 1969, Illeana Douglas' parents saw the film Easy Rider. Like many folks of that generation, the groundbreaking film transformed them. Taking Dennis Hopper's words, "That's what it's all about man", to heart, they abandoned what Illeana had hoped would be her comfortable upper middle class life for a childhood filled with hippies, goats, free spirits, and free love. Illeana writes, "Since it wa
The Million Dollar Mermaid
Esther Williams, Digby Diehl · 416 pages
Doris Day: Her Own Story
A.E. Hotchner, Doris Day · 369 pages
The events of the popular, thrice-married, blonde singer-actress's life, as told to Hotchner, are given a wider frame through candid interviews with her son, mother, friends, and co-stars.
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
Hollywood Monster: A Walk Down Elm Street with the Man of Your Dreams
Robert Englund, Alan Goldsher
By Myself and Then Some
Lauren Bacall · 509 pages
On the silver anniversary of its original publication, Bacall brings her inspiring memoir up to date. Bacall and Humphrey Bogart produced some of the most electric scenes in movie history, and their romance on and off screen made them Hollywood's most celebrated couple. But when Bogart died of cancer in 1957, Bacall and their children had to take everything he had taught them and grow up fast. In
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
But Enough About Me: A Memoir
Burt Reynolds, Jon Winokur · 302 pages
Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming
James Kotsilibas-Davis, Myrna Loy
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
Ginger: My Story
Ginger Rogers · 512 pages
She was born Virginia Katherine McMath, but the world would come to know her—and love her—as Ginger Rogers: Broadway star, Academy Award-winning actress, and the ultimate on-screen dancing partner of the inimitable Fred Astaire. In Ginger: My Story, the legendary entertainer shares the triumphs of a remarkable career that began when she won a Texas dancing contest at age fourteen; the joys and hea
Life is a Banquet
Rosalind Russell, Chris Chase · 260 pages
Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son
Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Hope Edelman · 428 pages
In this remarkable dual memoir, film legend Martin Sheen and accomplished actor/filmmaker Emilio Estevez recount their lives as father and son. In alternating chapters -- and in voices that are as eloquent as they are different -- they tell stories spanning more than fifty years of family history, and reflect on their journeys into two different kinds of faith.
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
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.
My Story
Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht, Joshua Green · 143 pages
Watch 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