For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Hollywood

April 1995 Issue

Fiona Shaw

Year of the Woman

Script Girls

By Lizzie Francke

December 1979 Issue

Arthur Marshall

Sugar Plums

Self Portrait with Friends. The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton 1926-1974

By Richard Buckle (ed)

June 1993 Issue

Patrick O'Connor

Poor Boy makes Good in Boomtime USA

Merchant of Dreams: Louis B Mayer, MGM and the Secret Hollywood

By Charles Higham

Christopher Bray

Hollywood Inside Out

West of Eden: An American Place

By Jean Stein

November 1997 Issue

Gill Hornby

She Can Do No Wrong

Notorious: The Life of Ingrid Bergman

By Donald Spoto

February 1989 Issue

Steve Race

A Loos Woman

Anita Loos: A Biography

By Gary Carey

September 2015 Issue

Christopher Silvester

Waspish Wit

‘It’s the Pictures that Got Small’: Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood’s Golden Age

By Anthony Slide (ed)

June 2003 Issue

Charlie Campbell

Love Among The Chickens

Chicken: Love For Sale on the Streets of Hollywood

By David Henry Sterry

Brining Down the House

By Ben Mezrich

April 2004 Issue

Christopher Bray

Christopher Bray

Hollywood Animal: A Memoir of Love and Betrayal

By Joe Eszterhas

September 2009 Issue

Frank McLynn

Dollar Sign On His Heart

Joseph P Kennedy’s Hollywood Years

By Cari Beauchamp

November 2007 Issue

Francis King

Coarse and Classy

Coral Browne: ‘This Effing Lady’

By Rose Collis

November 2007 Issue

Frank McLynn

King of Hokum

Cecil B DeMille and the Golden Calf

By Simon Louvish

September 2007 Issue

Christopher Silvester

Horrors of Hollywood

Bambi vs Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business

By David Mamet

April 2005 Issue

Isabel Quigly

Dark Side of A Star

Cary Grant: A Biography

By Marc Eliot

April 2014 Issue

Frank McLynn

Lights, Camera, Action

Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War

By Mark Harris