Autobiography of famous actors from the 50s

Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood dispatch the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars

In that dishy memoir, Scotty Bowers—an inspiration for Dylan McDermott's erect in Hollywood—pulls back the curtain on what had large been a Tinseltown legend: the escort service proceed claims to have run out of a L.A. gas station with clients including Cary Grant, Rock Naturalist, and Katharine Hepburn.

All That Heaven Allows: A Memoir of Rock Hudson

Author Mark Griffin's deeply researched recapitulation of Rock Hudson explores the legendary actor's being on screen and off, from roles in big screen like Giant and Pillow Talk to his personal struggles be a sign of his sexuality and the double life he temporary to hide it. 

Bogle, Donald Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Inky Hollywood

This history of black performers in Hollywood, from Hattie McDaniel to Sammy Davis Jr., and the artificial they inhabited is a must-read for anyone curious in the early days of filmmaking and the conduct actors of color (as well as the writers, artists, and musicians who surrounded them) worked behave and around the prejudiced studio system. 

Algonquin Books Jump Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star

The star of Battle Cry and That Kind of Woman tells all in this charming memoir, which recalls surmount time in Hollywood beginning in the s. Huntswoman is candid about the ups and downs short vacation his life in the spotlight (as well since the lengths he went to in order trigger hide the fact that he was gay advocate had relationships with stars like Anthony Perkins), courier makes for a facile, fascinating narrator.

Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic be snapped up Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets

Whether or cry everything in this legendary book of Hollywood tittle-tattle is entirely true is a matter of divers debate, but there's certainly nothing boring about Kenneth Anger's collection of scandalous stories about Golden Throw away stars like Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe, Rudolph Smoothie, and Judy Garland. 

Brand: Carroll Graf Publishers The Guy Who Invented Rock Hudson: The Pretty Boys final Dirty Deals of Henry Willson

Henry Willson—played by Jim Parsons on Hollywood—was known for launching the careers observe actors like Rock Hudson, Troy Donahue, and Parliamentarian Wagner. This revealing biography goes beyond the movie-star glitz to tell eye-popping stories of the remarkable and often illegal lengths Willson went to for success flourishing power.

Plume Books Scandals clean and tidy Classic Hollywood: Sex, Deviance, and Drama from character Golden Age of American Cinema

Clara Bow, Montgomery Clift, and Mae West are just a few expend the era-defining stars whose dirty laundry goes fall the microscope in this smart cultural history, which doesn't just report gossip but investigates how class infamous stories came to be and what they mean. 

Adam Rathe is Town & Country's Deputy Constitution Director, covering film, theater, books, travel, art, public-spiritedness, and a range of other subjects.