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Fleabag: The Scriptures (Hardcover)

By Phoebe Waller-Bridge

$28.00

ISBN: 9780593158272

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Published: Ballantine Books - November 26th, 2019

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It's true; Fleabag is so 2019, but for me, it’s great to look back and commemorate the moment, before everything came crashing down, when one woman was making art in the shape of women. The Fleabag Scriptures contains entire scripts of seasons 1&2 and provides fans with an intimate view of how Waller-Bridge's mind works. Perfect for fans of the show, writers, actors, and humans on your list.

Wendy

Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise (Hardcover)

By Scott Eyman

$35.00
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ISBN: 9781501192111

Published: Simon & Schuster - October 20th, 2020

Cary Grant (1904 – 1986) – born Archie Leach in Bristol, England was a charming, talented actor who was the embodiment of a Hollywood MOVIE STAR during the Golden Age. However, he was a complicated man – married five times – insecure - parsimonious. Author Scott Eyman’s new biography gives us the charming, stylish, successful and self-invented Cary Grant, as well as the emotionally complex man filled with self-doubt, despite his iconic status as one of the most beloved stars ever.

Nathan

Black Sunset: Hollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal and Raging Egos (Paperback)

By Clancy Sigal

$17.95
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ISBN: 9781593766573

Published: Soft Skull - December 13th, 2016

 

Novelist (Going Away) Sigal was a Hollywood talent agent and secret communist in the blacklist-plagued 1950s. An outrageously entertaining, naming-names memoir (with a ration of b.s. too...sweetheart, whaddya expect, he's an agent!), What Makes Sammy Run meets L.A. Confidential. The cover should be a lot more lurid!

 

Gary

The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made (Paperback)

By Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell

$16.00

ISBN: 9781476730400

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Published: Simon & Schuster - October 7th, 2014

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How do you make a movie? How do you make a bad movie? Better question: how do you make a movie so bad, it's beloved by millions?

John

We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most Beloved Movie (Hardcover)

By Noah Isenberg

$27.95
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ISBN: 9780393243123

Published: W. W. Norton & Company - February 14th, 2017

Behind the scenes of one of the defining movies of the twentieth century, from the real refugees playing refugees on-screen to how the Brattle Theatre helped make it a classic.

Sarah

Into the Dark: The Hidden World of Film Noir, 1941-1950 (Turner Classic Movies) (Hardcover)

By Mark A. Vieira, Turner Classic Movies

$40.00

ISBN: 9780762455232

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Published: Running Press Adult - May 24th, 2016

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A gorgeous appreciation of the delicious black & white crime dramas collectively so intense the French named American "Cinema Noir" a whole unique genre.

Gary

West of Eden: An American Place (Hardcover)

By Jean Stein

$30.00
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ISBN: 9780812998405

Published: Random House - February 9th, 2016

This oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles, looks at five different  families/individuals who lived, struggled, worked, and played there - the actress Jennifer Jones, movie mogul Jack Warner, tycoon Edward Doheny, troubled Jane Garland and Stein's own fascinating family.  Their stories are woven into an intense, illuminating and sometimes tragic tapestry.

 

Nathan

 

Movie Star Chronicles: A Visual History of the World's Greatest Movie Stars (Paperback)

By Ian Haydn Smith, David Gordon Green (Foreword by)

$29.95
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ISBN: 9781770855304

Published: Firefly Books - September 17th, 2015

Satisfy curiosity, settle arguments, get gloriously lost in the stars!

Gary

 

George Hurrell's Hollywood: Glamour Portraits 1925-1992 (Hardcover)

By Mark A. Vieira, Sharon Stone (Foreword by)

$65.00
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ISBN: 9780762450398

Published: Running Press Adult - November 12th, 2013

An almost unbearably gorgeous book full of almost impossibly glamorous people. One of the ancillary art forms spawned by Hollywood in the studio era was the studio star portrait, and probably the master of them all was George Hurrell. Lighting, makeup and wardrobe helped, but look at what there was to work with (see freckled Joan Crawford's before-and-after portraits)!

Gary