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"The Fifty Year Decline and Fall of Hollywood" [1961] by Ezra Goodman Chapter Titles: Flashback; Tom Swift & His Flying Typewriter; Dreams of A Rarebit Fiend; Through A Ground Glass, Darkly; The Great Brain Robbery; The Girl With The Three Blue Eyes; In The Order of Their Appearance; The Little People; The Snows of Yesteryear; The Night Life of the Gods; and Fade-Out Macfadden mass pb [1962] out of print/used Simon & Schuster 8¼x5¾ hardcover [1961] out of print/used Simon & Schuster 8½x6 hardcover [1961] out of print/used |
 | "The Studio" [1969] by John Gregory Dunne Non-fiction account of the year that Dunne spent with total access inside Twentieth Century Fox Studios in Hollywood, covering the development of hits & flops, including "The Boston Strangler", "Dr. Doolittle", "Hello Dolly", "Planet of The Apes" and "Star". Reviewed as "Thirty years later, [it] may still be our most minutely observed and therefore most uproar-iously funny portrait of the motion picture business." Vintage 8x5¼ pb [4/98] for $11.20 Limelight Editions 8¼x5½ pb [4/85] out of print/used FS&G Book Club 8¼x5¾ hardcover [1969] out of print/used FS&G 8¼x5½ hardcover [1969] out of print/used |
 | Are the Stars Out Tonight?: The Story of the Famous Ambassador and Cocoanut Grove ... Hollywood's Hotel" [orig 1980] by Margaret Tante Burk Round Table West 11x8¼ hardcover [5/2003] for $30.89 |
 | "The Inquisition In Hollywood: Politics In The Film Community, 1930-1960" [1980] by Larry Ceplair & Steven Englund Univ IL Press 9x5 pb [9/2003] for $22.45 Anchor/Doubleday hardcover [1/80] out of print/used more info on Magic Lantern's Hollywood Blacklist Page |
 | "Tales From Hollywood" [1984 stageplay] by Christopher Hampton Many writers and artists and movie people of Germany fled the brutality of the Nazis and settled in Los Angeles in the 1930s, including Thomas & Heinrich Mann, Salka Viertel, Lion & Marta Feuchtwanger and playwright Bertolt Brecht Faber & Faber 7¾x5 pb playscript [5/2002] out of print/many used TV movie [P.B.S./B.B.C. Oct 1992] directed by Howard Davies; starring Jeremy Irons, Charles Durning, Alec Guinness, Elizabeth McGovern, Sinéad Cusack, Jan Chappell, Ian Thompson & Jack Shepherd DVD/Blu-ray not available; full credits from IMDb |
 | "The Hollywood Studio System: A History" [1986] by Douglas Gomery British Film Institute pb [9/2005] for $19.29 British Film Institute hardcover [9/2005] for $80.00 |
 | "The Stars Appear" [1992] by Richard Dyer MacCann
Brief biograpies of 176 actors & directors of the Silent Era, with more detailed info on 33 of them; major stars include Theda Bara, Richard Barthelmess, Clara Bow, Lon Chaney, Douglas Fairbanks, Geraldine Farrar, Charles Farrell, Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lillian Gish, William S. Hart, Ernst Lubitsch, Mary Pickford, Rin-Tin-Tin, Gloria Swanson, and Rudolph Valentino Scarecrow Press 8¾x5½ pb [3/92] for $34.05 Scarecrow Press 8¾x5½ hardcover [3/92] for $47.30 |
 | "Hollywood: 60 Great Years" [1992] by David Castell, Douglas Jarvis, Mark Kermode, Jack Lodge, John Russell Taylor & Adrian Turner
The six authors are all professional screenwriters, and each writes about a decade of Hollywood film history, from 1930 to 1990. Prion Books hardcover[10/92] for $45.63 Barnes & Noble hardcover [1994] out of print/used |
 | "Negotiating Hollywood: The Cultural Politics of Actors' Labor" [1995] by Danae Clark A pioneering study of labor struggles in 1930s Hollywood Univ MN Press 9x6 pb [10/95] for $22.00 Univ MN Press 9¼x6 hardcover [10/95] for $44.95 |
 | "Movie Time: A Chronology of Hollywood and The Movie Industry From The Beginnings To The Present" [1995] by Gene Brown Wiley & Sons 11x8½ pb [11/95] out of print/many used |
 | "The Brown Derby Restaurant: A Hollywood Legend" [1996] by Sally Wright Cobb & Marc Willems Rizzoli pb [2/2005] out of print/used Rizzoli Intl. 9¾x9¾ hardcover [10/96] out of print/used official website • restaurant entry at Wikipedia |
 | "Romanoff, Prince of Rogues: The Life & Times of A Hollywood Icon" [1997] by Jane Pejsa Kenwood Publng 9¼x6¼ hardcover [10/97] out of print/used Mike Romanoff entry at Wikipedia |
 | "Balboa Films: A History and Filmography of The Silent Film Studio" [1999] by Jean-Jacques Jura & Rodney Norman Bardin II Established in 1913 as Balboa Amusement Producing Company; also known as Balboa Studios & Balboa Feature Films. Comprised of eight acres in Downtown Long Beach, California with an 11-acre backlot in nearby Signal Hill. The company shut down in 1923 and was razed for housing development in 1925. McFarland & Co. 10x7 pb [7/2007] for $39.95 McFarland & Co. 10¼x7½ library hardcover [1999] for $65.00 |
 | "Sins of The City: The Real Los Angeles Noir" [1999] by Jim Heimann Chronicle Books 10x7½ pb [7/99] for $13.27 |
 | "Stardust and Shadows: Canadians In Early Hollywood" [2000] by Charles Foster The stories of eighteen Canadians who were celebrities during Hollywood’s formative years: Al & Charles Christie, Joe & Sam De Grasse, Marie Dressler, Allan Dwan, May Irwin, Florence La Badie, Florence Lawrence, Del Lord, Louis B. Mayer, Sidney Olcott, Jack Pickford, Mary Pickford, Marie Prevost, Mack Sennett, Douglas Shearer & Norma Shearer Dundurn Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [9/2000] for $15.59 |
 | "Vanity Fair's Hollywood" [2000] Foreword by Graydon Carter, Afterword by Dominick Dunne Viking Studio 12x10½ pb [9/2001] out of print/used Thames & Hudson 12x10¼ pb [11/2001] out of print/used Viking Studio 12x10½ hardcover [10/2000] out of print/used |
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"Lost Hollywood" [2001] by David Wallace "A treat for Hollywood history buffs." St. Martin 9½x6¼ pb [3/2002] for $10.47 St. Martin 9½x6½ hardcover [4/2001] for $16.77 |
 | "Hollywood Noir: Featuring Ronald Reagan" [2001] by Richard Olsen Xlibris 8½x5½ pb [10/2001] for $21.99 Xlibris 8¾x6 hardcover [10/2001] for $31.99 see also Spirit of America Bookstore's Ronald Reagan [1911-2004] Page |
 | "The Bad & The Beautiful: Hollywood In The Fifties" [2002] by Sam Kashner & Jennifer MacNair W.W. Norton 8½x5½ pb [5/2003] for $15.15 Konecky & Konecky 9¼x6 hardcover [2/2006] for $10.98 W.W. Norton 9¼x6½ hardcover [6/2002] out of print/many used |
 | "Hollywood 1900-1950 In Vintage Postcards" [2002] by Thomas Dangcil Arcadia Publng 9½x6½ pb [9/2002] for $13.59 |
 | "Life: In Hollywood" [2003] by The Editors of Life Magazine Time-Life 11½x9¼ hardcover [3/2003] for $18.96 |
 | "Hollywood In Vintage Postcards" [2003] Created by Rod Kennedy Jr., text by Elizabeth Ellis Gibbs Smith 7¾x7¾ pb [4/2003] for $14.95 |
 | "Hollywood's Golden Age: As Told By One Who Lived It All" [2003] by Edward Dmytryk, Preface by {his widow} Jean Porter Dmytryk BearManor Media 9x6 pb [7/2003] for $17.95 |
 | "Shooting Cowboys and Indians: Silent Western Films, American Culture & The Birth of Hollywood" [2004] by Andrew Brodie Smith Univ Press of CO 9½x6½ hardcover [1/2004] for $22.02 |
 | "Movie Star Homes: The Famous To The Forgotten - Over 350 Homes, Photos & Addresses" [2004] by Judy Artunian & Mike Oldham Santa Monica Press 9x6 pb [5/2004] for $12.71 |
 | "The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood" [2004] by David Thomson Knopf 9½x6½ hardcover [11/2004] for $18.45 |
 | "Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood" [2005] by Donald Bogle One World/Ballantine 8x5 pb [1/2006] for $10.85 One World/Ballantine 9x6 hardcover [1/2005] out of print/used and more on the subject on Magic Lantern's Afro-American Film Festival Pages |
 | "The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the P*rn Film Industry" [2005] by Legs McNeil & Jennifer Osborne Regan Books/Harper Collins 9x6¼ pb [2/2006] out of print/used It Books 9x6¼ hardcover [2/2005] out of print/many used |
 | "Children of Hollywood: Accounts of Growing Up As The Sons & Daughters of Stars" [2005] by Michelle Vogel Drawn from interviews with celebrity offspring – sons, daughters & grandchildren of Eddie Cantor, Douglas Fairbanks, W.C. Fields, Ruth Hussey, Boris Karloff, Mario Lanza, Jerry Lewis & the Marx Brothers – who also provided never-before-published snapshots of Hollywood legends at home. McFarland & Co. 8¾x6 pb [3/2005] for $35.00 |
 | "Progressive Hollywood: A People's History of The United States" [2005] by Ed Rampell Disinformation 9x6 pb [5/2005] for $14.95 publisher official bookpage |
 | "A Gallery of Stars: The Story of The Hollywood Brown Derby Wall of Fame" [2005] by Jack Lane, the Brown Derby's resident caricaturist Luminary Press 9x6 hardcover [6/2005] for $25.00 |
 | "Adventures of A Hollywood Secretary: Her Private Letters From Inside The Studios of The 1920s" [2006] by Valeria Belletti, Edited by Cari Beauchamp, Foreword by Sam Goldwyn, Jr. Belletti was secretary to Sam Goldwyn in Hollywood, and in spare moments wrote chatty letters to a friend Back East Univ CA Press 8¼x5½ pb [5/2006] for $24.95 Univ CA Press hardcover [5/2006] out of print/used |
 | "Exiles In Hollywood" [2006] by David Wallace Profiles of personalities who fled Nazi Germany, including Greta Garbo, Alfred Hitchcock, actor Charles Laughton, Nobel-laureate Thomas Mann, composer Arnold Schoenberg, composer Igor Stravinsky, screenwriter Salka Viertel, and filmmaker Billy Wilder Limelight Editions 8¾x6 pb [7/2006] for $22.95 |
 | "Detecting Men: Masculinity and The Hollywood Detective Film" [2006] by Philippa Gates SUNY Press 8¾x6 pb [7/2006] for $30.95 SUNY Press 9x6¼ hardcover [7/2006] for $89.50 |
 | "The Story of Hollywood: An Illustrated History" [2006] by Gregory Paul Williams B.L. Press pb [10/2011] for $35.00 
B.L. Press 12x9¼ hardcover [9/2006] for $49.95 "The Story of Hollywoodland" [1992] by Gregory Paul Williams Papavasilopoulos Press pb [6/92] out of print/used |
 | "Drawing The Line: The Untold Story of The Animation Unions From Bosko To Bart Simpson" [2006] by Tom Sito Univ Press of KY 9½x6¼ hardcover [10/2006] for $24.32 |
 | "The Father of Hollywood: The True Story" [2006] by Gaelyn Whitley Keith The author's great-grandfather Hobart Johnstone 'H.J.' Whitley [1847-1931] developed the city of Hollywood, and built the Whitley Heights gated community and the famous Hollywood Hotel (1902) – among other amazing accomplishments. BookSurge Publng 8¾x6 pb [11/2006] out of print/used |
 | "Hollywood Studios (Postcard History Series)" [2007] by Tommy Dangcil Arcadia Publng 9x6¼ pb [4/2007] for $15.99 |
 | "Weimar On The Pacific: German Exile Culture In Los Angeles and The Crisis of Modernism" [2007] by Ehrhard Bahr Univ CA Press 9x6 pb [8/2008] for $24.95 Univ CA Press 8x6¼ hardcover [5/2007] for $42.00 |
 | "Postwar Hollywood, 1946-1962" [2007] by Drew Casper
Sections include: Cultural Overview, Business, Technology, Censorship, Genre, and Style Wiley-Blackwell 9¾x6¾ pb [9/2007] for $45.95 Wiley-Blackwell 9¾x7 hardcover [9/2007] for $99.95 |
 | "Hollywood's Hellfire Club: The Misadventures of John & Lionel Barrymore, W.C. Fields, Errol Flynn, and 'The Bundy Drive Boys'" [2007] by Gregory William Mank, with Charles Heard & Bill Nelson Among the notable off-screen hell-raisers here are John Barrymore, John Carradine, artist John Decker, W.C. Fields, Errol Flynn, writers Gene & Will Fowler, art critic Sadakichi Hartmann, writer Ben Hecht & actor Anthony Quinn Feral House 9½x6 pb [10/2007] for $15.61 |
 | "Images of America: Early Hollywood" [2007] by Marc Wanamaker {Bison Archives} & Robert W. Nudelman {Hollywood Heritage Museum} Arcadia Publng 9x6¼ pb [10/2007] for $13.59 |
 | "Hollywood's Original Rat Pack: The Bards of Bundy Drive" [2008] by Stephen C. Jordan Parties hosted by eccentric artist John Decker at his home on Bundy Drive in West Los Angeles included notable off-screen hell-raisers John & Lionel Barrymore, John Carradine, W.C. Fields, Errol Flynn, writers Gene & Will Fowler, art critic Sadakichi Hartmann, writer Ben Hecht & actor Anthony Quinn Scarecrow Press 8¾x6 pb [1/2008] for $45.00 |
 | "I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History" [2008] by Walter Mirisch Univ WI Press9x6½ hardcover [2/2008] for $21.86 |
 | "Hollywood Independents: The Postwar Talent Takeover" [2008] by Denise Mann Univ MN Press 8¾x5¾ pb [2/2008] for $25.00 Univ MN Press 9x6 hardcover [2/2008] for $75.00 |
 | "The First Hollywood: Florida and The Golden Age of Silent Filmmaking" [2008] by Shawn C. Bean Univ Press of FL 9x5¾ hardcover [7/2008] for $20.90 |
 | "The Men Who Made Hollywood: The Lives of The Great Movie Moguls" [2009] by Michael Freedland chapters/subjects include Harry Cohn, Sam Goldwyn, Jesse L. Lasky, Louis B. Mayer, the Warner Brothers & Adolph Zukor JR Books Ltd 9¼x6 hardcover [10/2009] out of print/used |
 | "Inside The Hollywood Fan Magazine: A History of Star Makers, Fabricators & Gossip Mongers" [2010] by Anthony Slide Univ Press of MS 10x7¼ hardcover [2/2010] for $32.00 |
 | "Hollywood Stories: Short, Entertaining Anecdotes About The Stars & Legends of The Movies!" [2010] by Stephen Schochet
Featuring little-known, wonderful anecdotes about stars such as Lucille Ball, Marlon Brando, Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Douglas Fairbanks, Errol Flynn, Boris Karloff, Marilyn Monroe, Mary Pickford, Shirley Temple, John Wayne, and many more self-published 9¼x6¼ hardcover [3/2010] for $17.96 "Tales of Hollywood: Hear The Origins of Hollywood!" [1998] Read by Stephen Schochet Hollywood Stories audio CD [1/2000] for $14.95 Hollywood Stories audio tape [12/98] for $11.95 |
 | "Location Filming In Los Angeles (Images of America Series)" [2010] by Karie Bible, Marc Wanamaker & Harry Medved Arcadia Publng 9x6&frac2 pb [11/2010] for $14.95 |
 | "Bringing Up Oscar: The Story of The Men and Women Who Founded The Academy" [2011] by Debra Ann Pawlak Pegasus Books 9¼x6½ hardcover [1/2011] for $18.45 |
 | "A Divided World: Hollywood Cinema and Emigre Directors In The Era of Roosevelt and Hitler, 1933-1948" [2011] by Nick Smedley
Examines some of the important programs of the New Deal and the subsequent response of the film community, and also compares and contrasts the major works of three European directors – Fritz Lang, Ernst Lubitsch & Billy Wilder – with the products of mainstream Hollywood. Intellect Ltd 9x6¾ pb [2/2011] for $40.00 |
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