Book Reviews

On occasion, I’ve been invited to review books that detail the lives of classic Hollywood film stars, or Golden Age films. This section houses my most recent reviews about some exciting books in the works!

• Biographies
  • Ann Blyth: Actress. Singer. Star.
  • Barbara La Marr: The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful for Hollywood
  • Dan Duryea: Heel with a Heart
  • Deanna Durbin: A Hollywood Fairy Tale
  • The First King of Hollywood: The Life of Douglas Fairbanks
  • The Ice Cream Blonde: The Whirlwind Life and Mysterious Death of Screwball Comedienne Thelma Todd
  • Jobyna Ralston: A Life in Pictures
  • Jose Ferrer: Success and Survival
  • The Life of Dick Haymes
  • Marion Davies: A Biography
  • Phantom Lady
  • Robert Wise: The Motion Pictures
  • Seen from the Wings: Luise Rainer. My Mother, The Journey
• Essay Collections
  • The Real James Dean: Intimate Memories from Those Who Knew Him Best
• Novels
  • Banished from Memory
  • The Five Acts of Diego Leon
  • The Girl from Hollywood
  • The Jean Harlow Bombshell
  • Merton of the Movies
  • Such Mad Fun: Ambition and Glamour in Hollywood’s Golden Age
• Picture Books
  • It’s A Wonderful Life
  • Movies Are Magic: A Kid’s History of the Moving Image from the Dawn of Time to About 1939