Suggest me a book set in Old Hollywood

Fiction:

Buster Midnight’s Cafe by Sandra Dallas
The Song Is You by Megan Abbott
The Girls in the Picture, Melanie Abbott

Nonfiction:

Tinseltown: Morphine, Madness and the Dawn of Hollywood by William J. Mann, about the unsolved murder of famed director William Desmond Taylor. Absolutely full of scandals and also reveals a seamy side of hangers-on during the 20s.

The Entertainer, Margaret Talbot. Her father Lyle worked in vaudeville, as a hypnotist’s assistant, as a stage actor, in silent films, talkies and TV throughout his long career, always a sort of C lister.

Box Office Poison by Tim Robey spans all of Hollywood and is the story of the film industry through its flops. It may not be quite what you’re looking for, but highly entertaining.

I have read and enjoyed the autobiographies of Lillian Gish and Lana Turner, also the memoirs by the daughters of Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. There are great bios of Theda Bara and Clara Bow. I have also always meant to read something about Fatty Arbuckle but never have.

Marilyn Monroe was her own subgenre of book during the 80s and 90s.

I absolutely love Hollywood stories.