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Top 10 Tinsel Town Tales: True Tales, Tall Tales, and Tell Alls!
Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger
This is like a fistful of scandal rags and a bathtub full of champagne!
Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary by Valeria Belletti
Whimsical and enchanting! She came to Hollywood in 1924, landed a job as Samuel Goldwyn's secretary and discovered Gary Cooper!
Live Fast, Die Young: The Wild Ride of Making Rebel Without a Cause
by Lawrence Frascella and Al Weisel
The best "film biography" I have ever encountered.
The Song is You by Megan Abbott
Los Angeles, 1949. Jean Spangler, a bit part actress and model, disappears.
Her body was never found.
This is an engrossing fictional account of what happened.
The Pat Hobby Stories by F Scott Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald worked in Hollywood for one year as a screenwriter for Universal.
These stories are about a has-been hack of a screenwriter who drinks too much and does everything wrong.
Lulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks
My favorite silent screen star, and a lovely account of the most amazing time in Hollywood.
Ask the Dust by John Fante
1930's Bunker Hill, my favorite novel.
L.A. Noir by John Buntin
Mickey Cohen, the LAPD and the struggle for the heart of Los Angeles.
L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
Astounding. And mostly true.
My Story by Marilyn Monroe
Don't listen to Norman Mailer or Gloria Steinem, just listen to ol Norma Jean
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