Edith Head's Hollywood
10 best books like Edith Head's Hollywood (Edith Head): Victorian Fashions and Costumes from Harper's Bazar, 1867-1898, Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary: Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s, Life is a Banquet, Swanson on Swanson, The Movies, Mr. Griffith, And Me, Dangerous Curves Atop Hollywood Heels: The Lives, Careers, and Misfortunes of 14 Hard-Luck Girls of the Silent Screen, Ginger: My Story, It's Only a Movie: A Personal Biography of Alfred Hitchcock, Greta Garbo: A Cinematic Legacy, Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design
Victorian Fashions and Costumes from Harper's Bazar, 1867-1898
| Author | Stella Blum |
| ISBN | 0486229904 |
After the Civil War the upper middle class in America expanded and became increasingly style-conscious. Visiting European royalty as well as American women returning from the International Exhibition in Paris in 1867 stimulated fashion awareness — and it was in this climate that the magazine...
Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary: Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s
| Author | Valeria Belletti |
| ISBN | 0520247809 |
Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary is an insider’s view of the film studios of the 1920s—and the first from a secretary’s perspective. Rich in gossip, it is also an eyewitness report of Hollywood in transition. In the summer of 1924, Valeria Belletti and her friend Irma visited California,...
| Author | Rosalind Russell |
| ISBN | 0394421345 |
One of my favorite autobiographies written by one of my favorite stars--it's not as comprehensive as say Myrna Loy's or Lillian Gish's--and I wish a lot more was covered about her earlier years (as Roz points out in the book people want to read about the Golden Age of Hollywood because it's like a country...
| Author | Gloria Swanson |
| ISBN | 0671433547 |
I fell a bit in love with Gloria reading her biography. It's non stop from her grace onto the silent screens of cinema to working her way to becoming the most famous celebrity on the planet. All without an ounce of arrogance, desperation or any other pathological profile that seems to gravitate celebrities...
The Movies, Mr. Griffith, And Me
| Author | Lillian Gish |
| ISBN | 0135366496 |
"But from the age of nine I was always falling in and out of love.
"But marriage is a twenty-four-hour-a-day job, and I have always been much too busy to make a good wife. Older women used to say to me, 'Whatever you do, don't get married.' All their troubles seemed to be caused by their husbands....
Dangerous Curves Atop Hollywood Heels: The Lives, Careers, and Misfortunes of 14 Hard-Luck Girls of the Silent Screen
| Author | Michael G. Ankerich |
| ISBN | 1593936052 |
"We were like dragonflies. We seemed to be suspended effortlessly in the air, but in reality, our wings were beating very, very fast." - Mae Murray "It is worse than folly for persons to imagine that this business is an easy road to money, to contentment, or to that strange quality called happiness." -...
I feel sort of odd giving a review of someone's autobiography. It was this woman's life, so how could I possibly critique what happened? I can, however, critique the actual writing, since Ginger wrote this book herself (no ghost writer, no "as told to" credits).
I've always loved Ginger Rogers...
It's Only a Movie: A Personal Biography of Alfred Hitchcock
| Author | Charlotte Chandler |
| ISBN | 1557836922 |
Applause Books" It's Only a Movie is the best book ever written about my father. It really is amazing." Patricia Hitchcock North by Northwest. Psycho. Rear Window. The Birds. Vertigo. When it comes to murder and mayhem, shock and suspense, the films of Alfred Hitchcock can not be surpassed. For this...
Greta Garbo: A Cinematic Legacy
With her astounding beauty and enigmatic persona, Greta Garbo is the ultimate Hollywood icon. Though many books have tried to unlock the mystique of the Swedish Sphinx by focusing primarily on her personal life, "Greta Garbo: A Cinematic Legacy" is the first to pay serious attention to what made her...
Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design
| Author | Deborah Nadoolman Landis |
| ISBN | 0060816503 |
From the lavish productions of Hollywood's Golden Age through the high-tech blockbusters of today, the most memorable movies all have one thing in common: they rely on the magical transformations rendered by the costume designer. Whether spectacular or subtle, elaborate or barely there, a movie...
Edith Head: The Fifty-Year Career of Hollywood's Greatest Costume Designer
| Author | Jay Jorgensen |
| ISBN | 0762438053 |
All About Eve. Funny Face. Sunset Blvd. Rear Window. Sabrina. A Place in the Sun. The Ten Commandments. Scores of iconic films of the last century had one thing in common: costume designer Edith Head (1897–1981). She racked up an unprecedented 35 Oscar nods and 400 film credits over the course of a fifty-year...
Edith Head: The Life and Times of Hollywood's Celebrated Costume Designer
| Author | David Chierichetti |
| ISBN | 0060567406 |
Edith Head is widely considered the most important figure in the history of Hollywood costume design. Her career spanned nearly half a century and included such classic films as Rear Window and Sunset Boulevard. Her private life and professional achievements have been the subject of speculation...
Jean Arthur: The Actress Nobody Knew
| Author | John Oller |
| ISBN | 0879102780 |
The luminous star of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Shane, and other classic films was, as the subtitle aptly puts it, "the actress nobody knew." Jean Arthur (1900-91) kept her personal life private, disdained the Hollywood publicity machine, and was called "difficult" because of her perfectionism...
Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair with Jewelry
| Author | Elizabeth Taylor |
| ISBN | 0743236645 |
"Here, in my own words and as I remember them, are my cherished stories about a lifetime of fun and love and laughter...I've never thought of my jewelry as trophies. I'm here to take care of it and to love it, for we are only temporary custodians of beauty."
--Elizabeth Taylor
She has mesmerized...
The Golden Girls of MGM: Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Lana Turner, Judy Garland, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, and Others
| Author | Jane Ellen Wayne |
| ISBN | 0786713038 |
Garbo and Crawford. Ava, Hedy, Judy, Liz epitomized Hollywood's golden era. With a trembling lip or sultry eye, with a tear or song or husky whisper, these women held moviegoers across America in their sway from the hard times of the 1930s through the booming postwar years to the early sixties. They were...
| Author | Joan Fontaine |
| ISBN | 0425042413 |
Her story is at the heart of the Hollywood story. She started her film career at seventeen, competed all her life with her famous sister Olivia de Havilland, and was pursued by men like Howard Hughes, Prince Aly Khan, Adlai Stevenson.
In her new book, she tells what it's like to be the youngest...
| Author | Ava Gardner |
| ISBN | 0553071343 |
Hardcover Edition of Ava Gardner's own story with no hold barred. Like a novel but Ava really lived it.
In this chatty autobiography, Gardner tells of her upbringing in a poor but proud Southern family, her sudden success in early-'40s Hollywood--mainly because of her beauty--and rails against...
The Lonely Life essentially documents around sixty years of drama played out by the world renowned Bette Davis. From her early days of paternal neglect when she would cut her sister's hair for attention, to her unstable youth going from school to school, to the theater, to the silver screen and so on,...
Service and Style: How the American Department Store Fashioned the Middle Class
| Author | Jan Whitaker |
| ISBN | 0312326351 |
Downtown department stores were once the heart and soul of America's pulsing Broadways and Main Streets. With names such as City of Paris, Penn Traffic, The Maze, Maison Blanche, or The Popular, they suggested spheres far beyond mundane shopping. Nicknames reflected the affection customers...
| Author | Anne Hollander |
| ISBN | 0520082311 |
Seeing Through Clothes was unable to answer this burning question I've had for awhile: What the heck is going on with this dress? Why does it look as if its wearer had just unfolded it from a square?
John Everett Millais, The Black Brunswicker, 1860
As interested as I am in both...
Vanity Fair's Tales of Hollywood: Rebels, Reds, and Graduates and the Wild Stories Behind theMaking of 13 Iconic Films
| Author | Graydon Carter |
| ISBN | 0143114719 |
The stories behind the stories of some of Hollywood's most iconic movies
The magazine world 's monthly arbiter of culture, personality, and world affairs, Vanity Fair has always offered the definitive insider's look at Hollywood power and glamour since its relaunch twenty-five years ago....
The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947-1957
The Ambassador has been described as “probably the most daring and enterprising trade magazine ever conceived.” With the motto “Export or Die!,” the magazine was renowned for its innovative design and adventurous editorial approach in promoting British manufacturing in the post-WWII...
| Author | Fred Astaire |
| ISBN | 0815410581 |
With Steps in Time dancer, choreographer, and movie star Fred Astaire (1899-1987) discusses the milestones of his professional life: his childhood in the vaudeville circuits; the musical comedies starring himself and sister Adele in New York and London; his movie successes; the founding of the...
Evenings with Cary Grant: Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best
| Author | Nancy Nelson |
| ISBN | 1557839239 |
Charming, witty, effortlessly debonair, and elegant, Cary Grant was the ultimate leading man, a silver screen icon who seemed to embody all that a movie star should be. But beneath the glamour was a real and complicated man - surprisingly vulnerable, unabashedly romantic, often exacting perfectionist...
