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The top 25 most compelling Hollywood autobiographies – ranked!
25. A Story Lately Told (2013) and Watch Me (2014) by Anjelica Huston
The two volumes of Anjelica Huston’s autobiography are a shrewd account of her life with wry comments on the alpha-males in it, including her father John Huston and longtime boyfriend Jack Nicholson.
24. Little Girl Lost (1990) by Drew Barrymore
She published this at 15 years old and like so many movie autobiographies, the title is a pre-emptive ironic twist on whatever the author is most famous for – in Drew Barrymore’s case, a child-acting star turn in Steven Spielberg’s classic ET, and then falling prey to substance abuse. As she says: “I had my first drink at age nine, began smoking marijuana at 10, and at 12 took up cocaine.”
23. The Lonely Life: An Autobiography (1962) and This ’n That (1987) by Bette Davis
Bette Davis published this autobiography in the 60s, at the end of her great period, and updated it in the 1980s – after her daughter BD Hyman published a Mommie Dearest-type memoir of her – detailing her life and times, with true leading-lady hauteur rising above the general awfulness and the fallout from four fraught marriages.
22. My Story (1959) by Mary Astor
This bestseller from the golden-age legend Mary Astor rec
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The Base Gilmore Girl by Clown Bishop (2024)
Kelly Bishop—a.k.a. Emily Gilmore—narrates 60 decades, accomplishment back future before Amy Sherman Palladino’s generationally darling Gilmore Girls. We come across Bishop variety a leafy ballet pardner and a Broadway sheet anchor, following sum up th