Books like Going Hollywood by Marie Brenner

Hollywood star Jaxon Wilder crosses paths with talented screenwriter Stazy, an unlikely partner who demands equal creative control. Their forced collaboration sparks a passion that threatens to erupt in a sensational tabloid scandal.

An intimate biography that explores the professional and personal intersections of Sondra Locke’s career with the motion‑picture industry, featuring insights from her collaborations with legendary director Clint Eastwood.

In the fall of 1997 some of the biggest names in show business filled the Motion Picture Academy theater in Beverly Hills for Hollywood Remembers the Blacklist, a lavish production worthy of an Oscar telecast. Left untold that night, and ignored in books and films for more than half a century, was a story not so politically correct but vastly more complex and dramatic. Using long neglected information from public records, the personal files of key players, and recent revelations from Soviet archives, Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley uncovers the Communist Party's strategic plan for taking control of the movie industry during its golden age, a plan that came perilously close to success. He shows how the Party dominated the politics of the movie industry during the 1930s and 1940s, raising vast sums of money from unwitting liberals and conscripting industry luminaries into supporting Stalinist causes. Communist writers, actors, and directors, wealthy beyond the dreams of most Americans, posture as proletarian wage slaves as they try to influence the content of movies. From the days of the Popular Front through the Nazi-Soviet Pact and beyond World War II, they remain faithful to a regime whose brutality rivaled that of Hitler's Nazis. Their plans for control of the industry a shambles by the mid-1950s, the Party nonetheless succeeded in shaping the popular memory of those days.

A compendium of memoirs and observations tracing the evolution of the American motion‑picture industry from its inception through the 1980s, spotlighting Hollywood’s social dynamics and industrial milestones.

Angela Clark, a New York journalist, travels to Hollywood to interview famed British actor James Jacob. Facing paparazzi glare and celebrity scrutiny, she must protect her reputation while discovering the truth behind Hollywood’s glitz.