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Dear Bob…
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George Hurrell’s Hollywood
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Hello, Norma Jeane
Hollywood Enigma
Ian Fleming
Ida Lupino: A Biography
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Jobyna Ralston: A Life in Pictures
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José Ferrer: Success and Survival
Lawrence Tierney
Lena Horne
Magic Time
Marion Davies: A Biography
Marlene
Maureen O’Hara: The Biography
Mean…Moody…Magnificent!: Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood Legend
My Place in the Sun
Natalie Wood: A Life
Nazimova: A Biography
Olivia de Havilland: Lady Triumphant
Otto Preminger
Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life
Phantom Lady
Robert Riskin
Robert Taylor: Male Beauty, Masculinity, and Stardom in Hollywood
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Shari Lewis & Lamb Chop
She Damn Near Ran the Studio
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Straight Lady
Strictly Dynamite
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The Brothers Mankiewicz
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
The Lady from the Black Lagoon
The Life of Dick Haymes
The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story
The Queen of Technicolor
The Savvy Sphinx
The Sweet Smell of Success
The Woman Who Dared
Truly, Madly
Twilight Man
Warrior Audrey Hepburn
What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?
Wicked Becomes Her
Wild Bill Wellman
Ziegfeld and His Follies
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Forbidden Cocktails
It’s A Wonderful Life: The Official Bailey Family Cookbook
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Backwards and in Heels
But Have You Read the Book?
Christmas in the Movies: Revised & Expanded
Crooked, but Never Common
Danger on the Silver Screen
Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir
Elvis Remembered
Fright Favorites
Girls on Film
My Affair with Art House Cinema
Rock on Film
Summer Movies: 30 Sun-Drenched Classics
TCM Underground
The Essential Directors
The Female Gaze
The Real James Dean: Intimate Memories from Those Who Knew Him Best
Viva Hollywood
What Film is Good For
Misc. Nonfiction
20th Century-Fox
50 Oscar Nights
Alfred Hitchcock: The Legacy of Victorianism
All I Want is Loving You
Becoming Nick & Nora
Broadway Goes to War
C’mon, Get Happy
Cecil B. DeMille’s Hollywood
Charlie Chaplin
Cinema’s Original Sin
City of Dreams
Cocktails with George and Martha
Columbia Pictures
Connecticut in the Movies
Day at a Time
Depth Effects
Dorothy Arzner Interviews
Double Solitaire
Drag
Electrographic Architecture
Engulfed: The Death of Paramount Pictures
Fading Fame
From the Moment they Met it was Murder
Hitchcock and the Censors
Hitchcock’s Blondes
Hollywood at the Races
Hollywood Behind the Lens
Hollywood Fashion
Hollywood Pride
Hollywood Remaking
Hollywood Victory
Hollywood: The Oral History
How Did Lubitsch Do It?
Imagining the Method
Immortal Films
Is Harpo Free?
Killing John Wayne: The Making of The Conqueror
Lost in the Dark
Magic in the Dark
Making a Bridge Too Far
Making The Best Years of Our Lives
Marlene Dietrich’s ABC’s
Marlene Dietrich: Photographs and Memories
Mavericks
Oscar Wars
Perplexing Plots
Radical Innocence
Rare Birds
Robert Wise: The Motion Pictures
Ruth Orkin
Selling Science Fiction Cinema
Starstruck: My Unlikely Road to Hollywood
Street with No Name
Teen Movies
The American Way
The Biggest Thing in Show Business
The Exorcist Legacy
The Fatal Alliance
The Films of Douglas Sirk
The Fixer
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The Greatest Westerns
The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist
The Lost World of DeMille
The Method
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The Monster Movies of Universal Studios
The Star-Spangled Screen
The Way They Were
This Was Hollywood
Through a Noir Lens
Vitagraph: America’s First Great Motion Picture Studio
Warner Bros.
What a Difference a Day Makes
What Price Hollywood?
What Price Hollywood?
When Hollywood Came to Utah
Novels
Banished From Memory
Do Tell
Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles
Merton of the Movies
Miss del RÃo
Season of the Gods
Starring Adele Astaire
Strangers in the Night
Such Mad Fun: Ambition and Glamour in Hollywood’s Golden Age
The Audrey Hepburn Estate
The Brightest Star
The Five Acts of Diego León
The Girl from Hollywood
The Jean Harlow Bombshell
The Limits of Limelight
The Queen of Sugar Hill
The Roaring Days of Zora Lily
Picture Books
It’s A Wonderful Life
Movies Are Magic
Editorials
5 Favorite Foreign Classic Horror Films
A Powerful Legacy: My Afternoon with Taryn
A Screen Deco Reflection
Academy Awards
94th Academy Awards
Oscar Nominations & Upcoming Presentations
The Academy Awards and Plenty of Hope
Blondie: From Strip to Screen
Dolores Del Rio: The Face of Deco
Duo Spotlight: Laurel & Hardy
How I “Met” James Cagney
Lucille Ball: Fashion Icon
My 2021 Top Ten
Remembering Mickey Rooney
Rochester and Jack: Breaking Racial Barriers
Sights and Sounds Reunited: The Vitaphone Project
Spotlight on Gene Kelly: The Chicago Years
Style is Eternal: Art Deco Fashion
The Wilde Ones: The Twin Careers of Lyn and Lee Wilde
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Buster Keaton Convention 2017
Chicago International Film Festival
Chicago International Film Festival 2022 Picks
Coronado Island Film Festival 2020
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Heartland International Film Festival
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Heartland International Film Festival 2020 Jimmy Stewart Tribute
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Heartland International Film Festival 2020 Virtual Fest
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Noir City Chicago 2019
Noir City Chicago 2019 Day 1
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Noir City Chicago 2022
Red Skelton Festival 2019
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Film Reflections
Films of the 1910s
His New Job (1915)
Films of the 1920s
Girl Shy (1924)
Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929)
The Freshman (1925)
The Gold Diggers (1923)
Wings (1927)
Films of the 1930s
42nd Street (1933)
Baby Face (1933)
Born to Dance (1936)
Double Wedding (1937)
Duck Soup (1933)
First Love (1939)
Gold Diggers in Paris (1938)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
Grand Hotel (1932)
Happiness Ahead (1934)
Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
Libeled Lady (1936)
Love Me Tonight (1932)
Mad Love (1935)
Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
Modern Times (1936)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
Sons of the Desert (1933)
Swing Time (1936)
Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
The Music Box (1932)
The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
The Public Enemy (1931)
The Singing Marine (1937)
Vanity Street (1932)
Films of the 1940s
Buck Privates (1941)
Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)
Good News (1947)
Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945)
Laura (1944)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Mr. Lucky (1943)
Portrait of Jennie (1948)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Big Street (1942)
The Talk of the Town (1942)
The Uninvited (1944)
This Time for Keeps (1947)
Trapped (1949)
Films of the 1950s
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
Lovely to Look At (1952)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The African Queen (1951)
The File on Thelma Jordon (1950)
The Lineup (1958)
The Opposite Sex (1956)
The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Film Reviews
Being the Ricardos (2021)
Elvis (2022)
King of Cool (2021)
West Side Story (2021)
Interviews
31 Days of Horror Interview
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017)
Breakfast at Dominique’s
Buttons: A Christmas Tale (2018)
Hollywood Kitchen
My Grandfather, The Tin Man
My Mother, Loretta Young
My Uncle, The Scarecrow
Richard Glazier: From Broadway to Hollywood
Wait for Your Laugh (2017)
Play Reviews
Good Night, Oscar
Recipes
Ann Blyth’s Blueberry Muffins
Ava Gardner’s Blueberry Buckle
Betty White’s Applesauce Loaf
Boris Karloff & Vincent Price’s Guacamole Recipes
Ginger Rogers’s Fruit Muffins
Greta Garbo’s Swedish Meatballs
Irene Dunne’s Vinegar Chocolate Cake
Janet Gaynor’s New England Pumpkin Pie
Judy Holliday’s Stuffed Tomatoes
Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies
Mary Ann’s (Dawn Wells’s) Famous Coconut Cream Pie
Sylvia Sidney’s Cherry Pudding
The Three Stooges’ N’yuk N’yuk N’yams
Serials
Canines of Classic Cinema
Pal
Pal the Wonder Dog
Rin Tin Tin
Skippy
Terry
The Gold Digger Films
The Gold Diggers (1923)
Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
Gold Diggers in Paris (1938)
The Seven Dwarfs
Doc and Sneezy
Sleepy, Grumpy, and Dopey
Bashful and Happy
Travels
Autry Museum of the American West
Betty White Centennial
Cape Cod Room
Cemeteries
Calvary Cemetery
Eden Memorial Park
Forest Lawn Memorial Park–Glendale
Forest Lawn Memorial Park–Hollywood Hills
Gate of Heaven Cemetery
Glen Haven Memorial Park
Hillside Memorial Park
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Holy Cross Cemetery
Kensico Cemetery
Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery
San Fernando Mission Cemetery
Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
Westwood Village Memorial Park
Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising
Grauman’s Chinese Theatre Forecourt
It’s A Wonderful Life Exhibition
Marion Davies Guest House
Motion Picture Studios
Columbia Pictures, MGM, and Sony Tour
Warner Brothers Classic Tour
Oakridge Estate
The Great American Songbook Foundation
The Hollywood Heritage Museum
The Hollywood Museum
The Joel and Frances McCrea Ranch Foundation
The Library of Congress
The Road to Tara: The Legacy of Gone with the Wind in Atlanta
Will Rogers State Historic Park
Hometowns Abroad
Australia
Errol Flynn
Mae Busch
Canada
Glenn Ford
Marjorie White
Ruby Keeler
England
Daisy & Violet Hilton
Elizabeth Taylor
Ida Lupino
Leslie Howard
Peter Cushing
Vernon & Irene Castle
France
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Leslie Caron
Rin Tin Tin
Germany
Marlene Dietrich
Mexico
Dolores Del Rio
Lupe Vélez
Romania
Edward G. Robinson
Scotland
Donald Meek
Sweden
Greta Garbo
Ukraine
Paul Muni
Alabama
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Arkansas
Dick Powell
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Doug McPhail
Esther Williams
Eve Arden
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Harry Spear
Jackie Cooper
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June Knight
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Idaho
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Robert Young
Indiana
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Cole Porter
Hoagy Carmichael
James Dean
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Madelyn Pugh Davis
Phil Harris
Red Skelton
Steve McQueen
Iowa
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Kansas
Buster Keaton
Marcy McGuire
Kentucky
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Texas
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Utah
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