The Movies, Mr. Griffith and Me
by Lillian Gish |
You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again
by Julia Phillips |
The Magic Lantern
by Ingmar Bergman |
Swanson on Swanson
by Gloria Swanson | 
The Name Above the Title
by Frank Capra | 
Hollywood Animal
by Joe Eszterhas |
My Autobiography
by Charlie Chaplin |
The Million Dollar Mermaid
by Esther Williams |
Images: My Life in Film
by Ingmar Bergman |
The Times We Had
by Marion Davies | 
Tallulah
by Tallulah Bankhead |
By Myself and Then Some
by Lauren Bacall |
This 'n That
by Bette Davis | 
The Elephant to Hollywood
by Michael Caine |
By Myself
by Lauren Bacall | 
1 Dead in Attic
by Chris Rose | 
Levels of Life
by Julian Barnes | 
Perfume Dreams
by Andrew Lam |
The Education of a British-Protected Child
by Chinua Achebe |
What I Saw
by Joseph Roth |
Louise Brooks (1906-1985) is one of the most famous actresses of the silent era, renowned as much for her rebellion against the Hollywood system as for her performances in such influential films as Pandora's Box and Diary of a Lost Girl. Eight autobiographical essays by Brooks, on topics ranging from her childhood in Kansas and her early days as a Denishawn and Ziegfeld Follies dancer to her friendships with Martha Graham, Charles Chaplin, W. C. Fields, Humphrey Bogart, and others are collected here.