Gavin Millar, 13 September 1990
Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles by Frank Brady.
Hodder, 655 pp., £18.95, January 1990, 0 340 51389 6Show More If this was happiness: A Biography of Rita Hayworth by Barbara Leaming.
Weidenfeld, 312 pp., £14.95, September 1989, 0 297 79630 5Show More Norma Shearer by Gavin Lambert.
Hodder, 381 pp., £17.95, August 1990, 0 340 52947 4Show More Ava’s Men: The Private Life of Ava Gardner by Jane Ellen Wayne.
Robson, 268 pp., £14.95, November 1989, 0 86051 636 9Show More Goldwyn: A Biography by Scott Berg.
Hamish Hamilton, 579 pp., £16.95, September 1989, 0 241 12832 3Show More The Genius of the System: Hollywood Film-Making in the Studio Era by Thomas Schatz.
Simon and Schuster, 514 pp., £16.95, September 1989, 0 671 69708 0Show More “... an image, and when it worked it was supported by the best team available: Clark Gable, Cedric Gibbons sets, Adrian gowns, William Daniels lighting, accommodating directors. (Who wouldn’t be accommodating? As Crawford pointed out, the star was sleeping with the boss.) It seems appropriate that little Eva Duarte left home for the bright lights of Buenos ...”
