Best of the Big Screen

The original black and white Big Screen Film Classic Actors/Actresses

flag

101	Harlow in Hollywood: The Blonde Bombshell in the Glamour Capital, 1928-1937 by Darrell Rooney 4.35 avg rating — 210 ratings score: 33, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
102	Making The Best Years of Our Lives: The Hollywood Classic That Inspired a Nation (The William & Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere) by Alison Macor 4.37 avg rating — 57 ratings score: 32, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
103	Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend by Graham Russell Gao Hodges 3.48 avg rating — 128 ratings score: 31, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
104	Close-up on Sunset Boulevard: Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond, and the Dark Hollywood Dream by Sam Staggs 3.74 avg rating — 377 ratings score: 30, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
105	Golden Dreams: How Hattie McDaniel Broke Barriers in Hollywood and Beyond by Charlene Porter 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 29, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
106	The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 6,556 ratings score: 28, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
107	Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir by Victoria Riskin (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 179 ratings score: 27, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
108	Mean...Moody...Magnificent!: Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood Legend by Christina Rice (Goodreads Author) 4.28 avg rating — 46 ratings score: 26, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
109	Stealing the Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood by Miriam J. Petty 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings score: 25, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
110	The Purple Diaries: Mary Astor and the Most Sensational Hollywood Scandal of the 1930s by Joseph Egan (Goodreads Author) 3.77 avg rating — 1,292 ratings score: 24, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
111	Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton by John Bengston 4.61 avg rating — 89 ratings score: 23, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
112	High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic by Glenn Frankel (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 965 ratings score: 22, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
113	Hollywood Babylon (Hollywood Babylon, #1) by Kenneth Anger 3.66 avg rating — 6,557 ratings score: 21, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
114	Lulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks 3.97 avg rating — 1,822 ratings score: 20, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
115	Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood by Mick LaSalle really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,179 ratings score: 19, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
116	Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn't Help It by Eve Golden 3.68 avg rating — 113 ratings score: 18, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
117	White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan by Tom Rice 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings score: 17, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
118	I Am Spartacus!: Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist by Kirk Douglas 4.20 avg rating — 1,056 ratings score: 16, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
119	The Last 'Darky': Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora by Louis Chude-Sokei 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings score: 15, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
120	Dorothy Dandridge by Donald Bogle 4.26 avg rating — 327 ratings score: 14, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
121	The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Expanded and Updated by David Thomson 4.24 avg rating — 718 ratings score: 13, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars