History & Criticism

The first Latin American to become a superstar, Ramon Novarro was for years one of Hollywood's top actors. Born Ramón Samaniego to a prominent Mexican fam...

The comprehensive critical biography of silent-screen star Marion Davies, who fittingly referred to herself as "the captain of my soul."\From Marion Davies'...

Lion of Hollywood is the definitive biography of Louis B. Mayer, the chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer—MGM—the biggest and most successful film studio of Ho...

Though he never reached the lead actor status he labored so relentlessly to achieve, Warren Oates (1928–1982) is one of the most memorable and skilled cha...