FOUR NEW FILM BOOKS YOU OUGHT TO READ—AND OWN

I am all too aware that I haven’t been posting very much on my site, especially when it comes to film books, which continue to proliferate. I still intend to provide an overview of what is now—and soon to be—available, but in the meantime, here are four important additions to your bookshelf. BARRYMORE: THE SPECTACULAR, TUMULTOUS LIFE OF AMERICA’S PRINCE OF PLAYERS by Terry Chester Shulman (University Press of Kentucky) One of the first show-business books I read when I was a boy was Gene Fowler’s Good Night, Sweet Prince, a loving biography of John Barrymore. In it, he spun many stories about the famous actor, all very entertaining but only some of them true. In his welcome new book Terry Chester Shulman has doffed the…READ MORE >