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Actor Biographies


Biographies that I have read and enjoyed


Norma Shearer
.  Gavin Lambert.  Knopf 1990
Suicide Blonde:  The Life of Gloria Grahame.  Vincent Curcio.  William Morrow & Co.  1989
Clara Bow:  Runnin' Wild.  David Stenn. Doubleday 1988.
Gable & Lombard.  Warren G. Harris.  Simon & Schuster 1974
Joan Blondell: A Life Between Takes. Matthew Kennedy. University Press of Mississippi. 2007
Screwball:  The Life of Carole Lombard.  Larry Swindell  William Morrow & Co.  1975
Deadly Illusions:  Jan Harlow & the Murder of Paul Bern.  Samuel Marx & Joyce Vanderveen  Random House.  1990
Bombshell:  The Life & Death of Jean Harlow.  David Stenn.  Doubleday.  1993
Robert Mitchum:  Baby, I Don't Care.  Lee Server.  St. Martin's Press.  2001
The Lives of Robert Ryan.  J.R. Jones.  Wesleyan University Press.  2015
A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel True 1907-1940.  Victoria Wilson.  Simon & Schuster. 2013
Miriam Hopkins:  Life & Films of a Hollywood Rebel.  Allan R. Ellenberger.  University Press of Kentucky, 2018.
Ava Gardner:  Love is Nothing.  Lee Server.  St.Martin's Press.  2006
Frank & Ava:  In Love & War.  John Brady.  Thomas Dunne Books.  2015
Myrna Loy:  The Only Good Girl in Hollywood.  Emily W. Leider.  Universtiy of California Pres,  2011



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  • Home
  • Top 10 Lists
    • My Top 10 Favorite Movies
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    • Director Top 10's >
      • Top 10 Film Noir Directors
      • Top 10 Coen Brothers Films
      • Top 10 John Ford Films
      • Top 10 Samuel Fuller Films
      • Top 10 John Huston Films
      • Top 10 Ernst Lubitsch Films
      • Top 10 Jean-Pierre Melville Films
      • Top 10 Nicholas Ray Films
      • Top 10 Preston Sturges Films
      • Top 10 Robert Siodmak Films
      • Top 10 William Wellman Films
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      • Top 10 Joan Blondell Movies
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      • Top 10 Gloria Grahame Films
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      • Top 10 Miriam Hopkins Films
      • Top 10 Carole Lombard Movies
      • Top 10 Myrna Loy Films
      • Top 10 Robert Mitchum Noir Movies
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      • Top 10 Barbara Stanwyck Films
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    • Top 10 Actresses of the 1930's
  • Reviews
    • Quick Hits: Short Takes on Recent Viewing >
      • Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blache
      • Elevator to the Gallows ('58)
      • Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
      • Incindies (2010)
      • In the Mood For Love (2000)
      • Le Silence De La Mer ('49)
      • Jaws Intro
      • The Princess Bride ('87) Intro
      • Pulp Fiction ('94) Intro
    • The 1910's >
      • The Lubitsch German Silents
    • The 1920's >
      • Wild Orchids ('29)
    • The 1930's >
      • Blonde Crazy
      • Bombshell ('33)
      • The Cheat
      • The Conquerors
      • The Crowd Roars
      • The Divorcee
      • Heroes for Sale
      • L'Atalante (1934)
      • Let Us Be Gay
      • My Man Godfrey
      • No Man of Her Own (1932)
      • Platinum Blonde ('31)
      • Reckless ('35)
      • True Confession ('37)
      • Virtue ('32)
      • The Women
    • The 1940's >
      • Criss Cross (1949)
      • The Maltese Falcon Intro
      • My Gal Sal (1942)
      • Pursued (1947)
      • The Red Shoes (1948)
      • Remember the Night ('40)
      • The Set-Up ('49)
      • The Third Man
    • The 1950's >
      • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ('58) Intro
      • In a Lonely Place
      • Mogambo ('53)
      • The Night of The Hunter ('55)
      • Red Dust ('32 vs Mogambo ('53)
      • The Searchers ('56)
      • Some Like It Hot ('59)
    • The 1960's >
      • Cape Fear ('62)
      • Cool Hand Luke (1967) Intro
      • The Hustler ('61) Intro
      • The Misfits ('61)
    • The 1980's >
      • Blood Simple ('84)
  • Artists
    • Actors/Actresses >
      • Joan Blondell
      • The Noir Villainy of Dan Duryea
      • Clark Gable Bio
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      • Norma Shearer
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      • William Wellman
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