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City of Nets:  A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's.  Otto Friedrich.  Harper & Row.  1986.
Indecent Exposure:  A True Story of Hollywood & Wallstreet.  David McClintock.  Morrow.  1982.  (David Begelman & Columbia Pictures)
Hit & Run:  How Jon Peters & Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood.  Nancy Griffin & Kim Masters.  Simon & Schuster.  1996.
Hollywood's Censor:  Joseph I. Breen & the Production Code Adminsitration.  Thomas Doherty.  Columbia University Press.  2007.
Romantic Comedy in Hollywood:  From Lubitsch to Sturges.  James Harvey.  Knopf  1987