Books from Paladin Communications

  • Errol Flynn Slept Here: The Flynns, the Hamblens, Rick Nelson, and the Most Notorious House in Hollywood
    By Robert Matzen, Michael Mazzone

    In this view, the Farm is still standing on the plateau above, and the casino (far lower left) has been moved about 20 yards to its new location and is undergoing The house built for Helen Hunt, owned by Justin Timberlake,. renovations.

  • Fireball: Carole Lombard and the Mystery of Flight 3
    By Robert Matzen

    Griffith sent a wire up to the Clark County Courthouse in Las Vegas. At the Pioneer Saloon, a reporter sidled up to the four shell-shocked men, their faces painted in grime and skin stretched tight by God only knew what.

  • Hooked on Hollywood: Discoveries from a Lifetime of Film Fandom
    By Leonard Maltin

    Unfortunately, their material here isn't funny, although they do perform a bit of eccentric dancing in a lively if oddly photographed musical number called “Hush Your Fuss,” written by Jay Kern Brennan and Ted Snyder.

  • Film Noir Style: The Killer 1940s
    By Kimberly Truhler

    His greatest partner was Cat People's cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca, who would collaborate with him again on Out of the Past. Musuraca drenches scenes in darkness but also celebrates light enough to make it sparkle.

  • Errol & Olivia: Ego & Obsession in Golden Era Hollywood
    By Robert Matzen

    Supposedly, Asher's wife knows of J.L.'s rant—Burbank needs to find English leading men!—and happens to see the young fellow sitting there waiting and proclaims to her husband that there waits a star to be born. In short order Asher is ...

  • Warrior: Audrey Hepburn
    By Robert Matzen

    Warrior: Audrey Hepburn completes the story arc of Robert Matzen's Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II. Hepburn's experiences in wartime, including the murder of family members, her survival through combat and starvation conditions, ...

  • Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II
    By Robert Matzen

    Audrey's own reminiscences, new interviews with people who knew her in the war, wartime diaries, and research in classified Dutch archives shed light on the riveting, untold story of Audrey Hepburn under fire in World War II. Also included ...

  • Starstruck: My Unlikely Road to Hollywood
    By Leonard Maltin

    Starstruck also offers a fascinating glimpse inside the Disney empire, and Maltin's tenure teaching USC's popular film course reveals insights into moviemaking along with access to past, current, and future stars of film, such as George ...

  • Art of Selling Movies
    By John McElwee

    Presenting 60 years of newspaper advertising for motion pictures great and small, this book features ads created by Hollywood and adapted by local and regional exhibitors that motivated patrons to leave their homes, part with precious ...

  • James Cagney Was My Babysitter
    By Ryan Cassidy, Johnny Ray Miller

    Imagine you are an 8-year-old introvert informed by your father that you will spend the afternoon at a famous actor's house—a famous actor you've never met!