5 Top nonfiction books like Barbara La Marr: The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful for Hollywood (Screen Classics) by Sherri Snyder

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Barbara La Marr: The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful for Hollywood (Screen Classics)

By: Sherri Snyder

4.48

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Barbara La Marr's (1896--1926) publicist once confessed: "There was no reason to lie about Barbara …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Barbara La Marr: The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful for Hollywood (Screen Classics) by Sherri Snyder , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Psycho

By: Robert Bloch

4.00

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

It was a dark and stormy night when Mary Crane glimpsed the unlit neon sign announcing the vacancy … read more

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2. Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark

By: Cassandra Peterson

4.36

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

The woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween,… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Peterson's Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark book and Sherri Snyder's Barbara La Marr: The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful for Hollywood (Screen Classics)

  • nonfiction
  • biography
"My favorite band's lyrics spoke to me more powerfully than any parent or teacher ever could. They helped me figure out who I was, what I was feeling, and possibly, where I was headed."

-Cassandra Peterson, Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark

"Suddenly one day I sprouted boobs. Not *just* boobs. Enormous boobs. When puberty finally struck, I developed faster than a Polaroid. In my mind at least, I remember going to bed flat as a board one …"

-Cassandra Peterson, Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark

"I was someone who had spent most of her life hanging around with gay men, and now here I was, ashamed of my feelings for a woman. I felt like such a hypocrite. I eventually gave up my ridiculous prec…"

-Cassandra Peterson, Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark

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3. Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era

By: Laurence Leamer

3.83

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scan… read more

Similar categories in Laurence Leamer's Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era book and Sherri Snyder's Barbara La Marr: The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful for Hollywood (Screen Classics)

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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4. Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century

By: Dana Stevens

4.19

Format: 432 pages, ebook

Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and NPR In this genre-defying work … read more

Similar categories in Dana Stevens's Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century book and Sherri Snyder's Barbara La Marr: The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful for Hollywood (Screen Classics)

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • film
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5. Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed (Turner Classic Movies)

By: Donald Bogle

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From Donald Bogle, the award-winning author of Hollywood Black and leading authority on Black cinem… read more

Similar categories in Donald Bogle's Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed (Turner Classic Movies) book and Sherri Snyder's Barbara La Marr: The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful for Hollywood (Screen Classics)

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • film
Cover of Barbara La Marr: The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful for Hollywood (Screen Classics) by Sherri Snyder

6. Barbara La Marr: The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful for Hollywood (Screen Classics)

By: Sherri Snyder

4.48

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Barbara La Marr's (1896--1926) publicist once confessed: "There was no reason to lie about Barbara … read more

Similar categories in Sherri Snyder's Barbara La Marr: The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful for Hollywood (Screen Classics) book and Sherri Snyder's Barbara La Marr: The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful for Hollywood (Screen Classics)

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • film

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4.36

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Laurence Leamer

3.83

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Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century

Dana Stevens

4.19

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Donald Bogle

4.19

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Holly Madison

3.55

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Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

4.46

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Cassandra Peterson

4.36

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Maria Bamford

3.77

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