Lulu in Hollywood

6 best books like Lulu in Hollywood (Louise Brooks): The Chaperone, The Parade's Gone By..., Hollywood Babylon, Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas, The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright, Role Models

The Chaperone
AuthorLaura Moriarty
ISBN1594487014
The Chaperone is  a captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922 and the summer that would change them both.
 
Only a few years before becoming a famous silent-film star and an icon of her generation, a fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks...
AuthorKevin Brownlow
ISBN0520030680
I knew this book would be a good resource since I've seen several other resources cite it, but I still cannot help but be impressed. This is a work of love and passion in chronicling the silent film era. Not only does it discuss the stars, but it goes into great detail about the technical aspects and how they...
AuthorKenneth Anger
ISBN0517344084
Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon is a boiling cesspool of lies! Practically none of this shit happened. The ratio of truth to lies is like 10 to 1. I have it on the highest authority those girls looked thirty under the bad set lighting. My great-great-great aunt was there for that underage (by trickery!...
Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas
AuthorAdam Kay
Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas is the hilarious, poignant and entertaining story of the life of a junior doctor at the most challenging time of the year. With twenty-five tales of intriguing, shocking and incredible Christmas incidents, the British public will finally appreciate the sacrifices...
The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright
AuthorJean Nathan
ISBN0312424922
In 1957, a children's book called The Lonely Doll was published. With its pink-and-white-checked cover and photographs featuring a wide-eyed doll, it captured the imaginations of young girls and made the author, Dare Wright, a household name. Close to forty years after its publication, the book...
Role Models
AuthorJohn Waters
ISBN0374251479
Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich--and happily horrify readers everywhere. Role Models is, in fact, a self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite personalities--some famous, some unknown,...
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