| Author | Title | Publication | Comments |
| The American Film Institute catalog of motion pictures produced in the United States. | Berkeley : University of California Press, 1971- | v. F3: Feature films, 1931-1940; v.F4. Feature films, 1941-1950. | |
| Anderson, Hesper | South Mountain Road | NY: Simon & Schuster 2000 | Sherwood Anderson's daughter saw RH at house told CL had committed suicide |
| Andrews, Maxene and Bill Gilbert | Over here, over there: The Andrews Sisters and the USO Stars in World War II | NY: Zebra Books, 1993 | mentions canteen, 4 Jills trip |
| Anger, Kenneth | Hollywood Babylon | San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, dist. by Simon & Schuster, 1975 | par. on CL -'Peep Show Pecadillos' |
| Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon II | NY: E.P. Dutton, 1984 | CL & Berkeley | |
| Arce, Hector | Groucho | New York : Putnam, [1980] c1979 | mental masturbation line |
| The Secret Life of Tyrone Power | NY: Morrow, 1979 | Jane Russell in Blood & Sand ! | |
| Austin, John | Hollywood's Babylon Women | NY: SPI Books, 1994 | chap on CL (formerly Hwd's unsolved mysteries) |
| Behlmer, Rudy | Memo from Darryl F. Zanuck | NY: Grove Press, 1993 | mentions CL re Miami |
| Benny, Jack and his daughter Joan | Sunday Nights at Seven: The Jack Benny Story | NY: Warner Books, 1990 | no index |
| Benny, Mary Livingstone and Hilliard Marks, with Marcia Borie | Jack Benny | Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978 | just mentions CL on S Pacific trip |
| Berle, Milton with Haskel Frankel | Milton Berle : an autobiography | New York : Applause Theatre & Cinema Books ; Milwaukee, WI : Sales and distribution, North America [by] Hal Leonard Corp., [2002] | comment re party photo |
| Billman, Larry | Betty Grable: a bio-bibliography | Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1993 | data on films; CL-BG feud |
| Bogle, Donald | Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography | NY: St. Martin's Press, 1997 | CL at Plantation club; Paris-Egypt; fellow suicide |
| Bordman, Gerald Martin | American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle | Oxford UP, 2001 | CL in A Lady Says Yes |
| Calvet, Corinne | Has Corinne Been a Good Girl? | New York: St. Martins Press, 1983. | Zanuck exposing himself |
| Cassini, Oleg | In my own fashion : an autobiography | New York : Simon and Schuster, c1987 | dresses for CL |
| Chaplin, Charles, Jr. with N. and M. Rau | My father, Charlie Chaplin | London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1960 | dates w Chaplin, crush on CL |
| Charyn, Jerome | Movieland: Hollywood and the Great American Dream Culture | NY: Putnam, 1989 | passage on CL 'cold', 'wild' |
| Clarke, Thurston | Searching for Paradise : A Grand Tour of the World's Unspoiled Islands | Ballantine Books, 2002 | CL on Santo |
| Crivello, Kirk | Fallen Angels: The Lives and Untimely Deaths of 14 Hollywood Beauties | Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1988 | chap on CL |
| Culver, Roland | Not Quite a Gentleman | London: William Kimber & Co., Ltd, 1979 | says CL left note with cases at Culver house before suicide |
| Dallinger, Nat | Unforgettable Hollywood | NY:Wm Morrow, 1982 | Pic of VM lighting CL cig in 1944 |
| De Leo, Edward with David Sheldon & Joan McCall | Al Pacino... And Me | Xlibris, 2002 | |
| Dmytryk, Edward | It's a hell of a life, but not a bad living | New York : NYT Times Books, c1978 | mentions CL re Mystery Sea Raider |
| Dunning, John | Tune in Yesterday | Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1976 | CL on Warner Bros Academy Theatre 1938-, Command Performance (no details) |
| Eells, George | Hedda and Louella | NY: Putnam 1972 | 'sexy Rexy' |
| Everson, William | The Films of Hal Roach | NY Museum of Modern Art, 1971 | mentions CL in 1MBC |
| Eyles, Allen | Rex Harrison | London: W.H. Allen, 1985 | brief mention of affair w CL |
| Faith, William Robert | Bob Hope, a life in comedy | NY: Putnam 1982 | date of Roberta 1938 |
| Fein, Irving; intro by George Burns | Jack Benny : an intimate biography | New York : Putnam, c1976 | tailor routine in S Pacific |
| Feinman, Jeffrey | Hollywood Confidential | Chicago: Playboy Press, 1976 | suicide, tells LT story of CL |
| Fisher, Steve | I Wake up Screaming | New York: Dodd, Mead, 1941 | |
| Fleming, E. J. | Carole Landis: A Tragic Life in Hollywood | Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2005. | |
| The Fixers: Eddie Mannix, Howard Strickling and the MGM Publicity Machine | Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2005 | ||
| Ford, Selwyn | The Casting Couch | London: Grafton Books, 1990 | CL at Hwd High,,, |
| Fortin, Noonie | Memories of Maggie | San Antonio, TX: Langmarc Publishing, 1995 | 18-35 passim, mentions 4 Jills tour, movie [attributed to CL's book] |
| Fraser-Cavassoni, Natasha | Sam Spiegel | New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003 | CL not in index, meets Boyer |
| Gabrial, Jan | Inside the Volcano: My Life With Malcolm Lowry | St. Martin's Press: 2000 | JG CL's secretary |
| Garrett, Betty with Ron Rapoport | Betty Garrett and other songs : a life on stage and screen | Lanham, MD: Madison Books, c1998 | party at Huston's, RH dancing w CL |
| Gehring, Wes D | Romantic vs. screwball comedy: charting the difference | Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2002 | brief mention of Turnabout/CL p 45, 49-50 re sex switch |
| Gibson, Clare | The Wedding Dress | London: Courage Books, 2001 | 1+p pic in 43 wedding dress |
| Gilpatrick, Kristin | Famous Wisconsin Film Stars | Oregon, WI: Badger Books, 2002 | biog sketch |
| Grams, Martin | Radio drama : a comprehensive chronicle of American network programs, 1932-1962 | Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2000 | CL in Gulf - Lady Esther Screen Guild Theater, Philip Morris, Reader's Digest, w dates |
| The History of the Cavalcade of America | M. Grams: 1999 | CL missed 5/3/43 show | |
| Gubernick, Lisa Rebecca | Squandered fortune : the life and times of Huntington Hartford | New York : Putnam, c1991 | HH 'mooning' over CL among others |
| Guild, Leo | Hwd Screwballs | LA: Holloway House, 1962 | Cl on beach at Cannes (!) |
| Gussow, Mel | Don't Say Yes until I Finish Talking: A Biography of Darryl F. Zanuck | Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971 | just mentioned a propos RH |
| Hadleigh, Boze | Hollywood gays : conversations with, Cary Grant, Liberace, Tony Perkins, Paul Lynde, Cesar Romero, Brad Davis, Randolph Scott, James Coco, William Haines, David Lewis | New York : Barricade Books, c1996 | Cesar Romero on CL, 'bisexuality' |
| Hagen, Ray and Laura Wagner | Killer Tomatoes | Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004 | only mention is Lynn Bari didn't like CL |
| Hamann, Gary D. | CL in the 30's and 40's | Hollywood: Filming Today Press, 2005 | |
| Harris, Marlys J | The Zanucks of Hollywood | NY: Crown Publishers.1989 | busty blond w DZ, .RH .. JS |
| Harrison, Rex | Rex: An Autobiography | NY: William Morris & Co., 1975 | disc of relationship w CL |
| Hearn, Chester G. | The American Soldier in World War II | Motorbooks International: 2001 | CL in New Britain |
| Henderson, Robert M. | D. W. Griffith: His Life and Work | NY: Oxford UP, 1972 | Griffith didn't direct any of 1MBC, claimed name was used for publicity |
| Herman, Vic (foreword by Carole Landis) | Winnie the Wac | Virginia Herman: 2002 (enlarged edition; Ist ed. 1945) | Cartoon collection; CL wrote 1945 Foreword |
| Hill, Norman, ed. | The Lonely Beauties | NY: Popular Library, 1971 | Chap on CL by Kenneth McKenna |
| Hoopes, Roy | When the Stars Went to War: Hollywood and World War II | NY: Random House, 1994 | CL overseas |
| Jacobson, Laurie | Dishing Hollywood: The Real Scoop on Tinseltown's Most Notorious Scandals | Nashville TN: Cumberland House, 2003 | Chapter on suicide, 217-224 (2 pix of CL, 1 of RH & LP) |
| Jessel, George | Halo over Hollywood | Toastmaster Publishing Co., Van Nuys CA, 1963 | poems about Hwd personalities |
| Jessel, George with John Austin | The World I lived In | Chicago: Regnery 1975 | affair w CL |
| Joy, Dean P. | Sixty Days of Combat | NY: Ballantine Books, 2004 | CL at Hunter-LIggett in May 44 w Geo Murphy, Chili Williams, Vga Belmont |
| Kear, Lynn and John Rossman | Kay Francis : a passionate life and career | Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, 2006 | quotes re CL, 4Jills, associates 4J film with CL book |
| Keyes, Evelyn | Scarlett O'Hara's Younger Sister | Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1977 | CL & RH at party? 124, 1MBC 35 |
| Keylin, Arleen and Suri Fleischer, eds. | Hollywood album : lives and deaths of Hollywood stars from the pages of the New York times | New York : Arno Press, 1977-1979., 2v | TImes art on CL 7/6/48 |
| Kobal, John | People Will Talk | NY: Knopf, 1986 | quote re CL & Berkeley |
| Rita Hayworth: the time, the place, and the woman | New York : Norton, 1978, c1977 | Blood & Sand | |
| Kuniczak, W. S. | My name is million: an illustrated history of the Poles in America | Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1978 | p. 147 pic of CL in T dress |
| Lacey, Madison S. and Don Morgan | Hollywood cheesecake: 60 years of leg art | Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press, 1981. | |
| Landis, Carole | Four Jills in a Jeep | NY: Random House, 1944; Curtis Publishing, 1943, 1944 | |
| Lester, James T. | Too Marvelous for Words: The Life and Genius of Art Tatum | Oxford UP: 1995 | CL with other stars in 'afterhours joints' |
| Lynn, Kenneth | Charlie Chaplin and his times | New York : Simon & Schuster, c1997 | details on affair w CL (ref to Mosley, Chaplin Jr.) |
| Martin, Mart | Did She or Didn't She? | Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1996 | sex life of stars: page on CL |
| Martin, Tony and Cyd Charisse | The Two of Us | NY: Mason/Charter 1976 | CL only mentioned; no index |
| Mayo, Virginia as told to LC Van Savage | The Best Years of My Life | Chesterfield, Mo.: BeachHouse Books, 2002 | name mentioned |
| McClelland, Doug | The golden age of "B" movies | Nashville, Tenn.: Charter House Publishers, 1978 | introd. by Evelyn Ankers |
| McClelland, Doug | The Golden Age of B Movies | Nashville, Tenn.: Charter House, 1978 | Behind Green Lights, 25-28 |
| McGee, Tom, foreword by Alice Faye | Betty Grable : the girl with the million dollar legs | Vestal, N.Y. : Vestal Press, c1995 | DZ and Pin-Up Girl |
| Miller, Don | 'B' Movies: An Informal Survey of the American Low-Budget Film 1933-1945 | NY: Curtis Books, 1973 | brief disc of films |
| Milton, Joyce | Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin | NY: Harper-Collins, 1996 | mentions dating |
| Montgomery, George with Jeffrey Millet | The years of George Montgomery | Los Angeles, CA : Sagebrush, c1981 | several pix, mentions of CL, no discussion |
| Morella, Joe with Edward Z. Epstein | Rita: the life of Rita Hayworth | New York : Delacorte Press, c1983 | Blood & Sand |
| Morley, Patrick | 'This Is the American Forces Network': The Anglo-American Battle of the Air Waves in World War II | Praeger Publishers: 2001 | Command Performance sigh |
| Morris, John G. | Get the Picture : A Personal History of Photojournalism | U of Chicago P: 2002 | Carole 'repaying' Dick Pollard for spread in Life |
| Moseley, Roy, with Phillip and Martin Masheter | Rex Harrison: A Biography | NY: St. Martin's Press, 1987 | lengthy disc of relationship |
| Mosley, Leonard | Zanuck: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Last Tycoon | NY: Little Brown, 1984 | Sperling quote |
| Murphy, George, with Victor Lasky | 'Say...Didn't You Used to Be George Murphy?' | NY: Bartholomew House, 1970 | mentions CL re 4 Jills trip |
| Murray, William | JANET, MY MOTHER, AND ME : A Memoir of Growing Up with Janet Flanner and Natalia Danesi Murray | Simon & Schuster;: 2000 | party w CL |
| OSteen, Johnny | Were these the golden years?: fifty years of Warner Brothers, Hollywood, and much more | North Hollywood, Calif. : J.R. OSteen, 1976 [reproduced typescript] | mentions suicide |
| O'Brien, Pat | The wind at my back; the life and times of Pat O'Brien, by himself | Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1964 | CL in HWC, SC; Dali line; mentioned among USO travelers |
| O'Brien, Scott | Kay Francis; I Can't Wait To Be Forgotten | Boalsburg, Penn.: BearManor Media, 2006 | Refs to 4 Jills, radio show; no intimate references |
| Palmer, Lilli | Change Lobsters - and Dance | NY: Macmillan, 1975; also London: W.H. Allen, 1977. | disc of RH, suicide |
| Parish, James Robert | The Fox Girls | New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1972. | |
| Parish, James Robert w Steven Whitney | The George Raft File | Drake, 1973 | Raft offered VM role in IWUS |
| Parish, James Robert and Don E. Stanke | The Glamour Girls | New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1975 | a few mentions |
| Parish, James Robert and William T. Leonard | The Funsters | New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1979 | a few mentions |
| Parish, James Robert with Gregory W. Mank and Don E. Stanke | The Hollywood Beauties | New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1978 | |
| Pitrone, Jean Maddern | Take it from the big mouth : the life of Martha Raye | Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c1999 | brief disc of 4 Jills |
| Porter, Darwin | Brando Unzipped | NY: Blood Moon Productions, Ltd., 2006 | |
| Katharine the Great | NY: Blue Moon Productions, 2004 | ||
| Pyle, Ernie | Here Is Your War | NY: Henry Holt and Co., 1943 | Slightly longer than Scholastic version |
| Ragan, David | Movie Stars of the 40s : a complete reference guide for the film historian or trivia buff | Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, c1985 | page on CL, ref to sex life, comic talent |
| Who's Who in Hollywood 1900-1976 | New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1976, 1977 | Favorable comments, doesn't mention suicide | |
| Rice, Craig [Georgianna Craig] | Having Wonderful Crime | New York: Simon and Schuster, 1943. | |
| Ringgold, Gene | The Films of Rita Hayworth | Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1974 | Botticher Blood & Sand story |
| Rosenberg, Bernard and Harry Silverstein | The Real Tinsel | NY: Macmillan, 1970 | quote re Griffith & 100000 BC |
| Rubin, Martin | Showstoppers: Busby Berkeley and the tradition of spectacle | Columbia UP 1993 | fn re 1938 suit |
| Schneider, G. W. S. | Don't Tell His Children | Xlibris, 2000 | |
| Schultz, Margie | Ann Sheridan. A Bio-Bibliography | Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997 | dinner, in filmography |
| Seaman, Barbara | Lovely Me | NY: William Morrow & Co., 1987 | on JS/CL |
| Seinfeldt, Mark | Final Drafts: Suicides of World-Famous Authors | Amherst, N.Y: Prometheus Books, 1999 | 408-09 page on CL |
| Shearer, Lloyd | Walter Scott's Personality Parade | NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1971 | Q & A on celebrities |
| Silvers, Phil with Robert Saffron | This laugh is on me: the Phil Silvers story / The Man Who Was Bilko [UK] | Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1973] | CL in 4J; oozed sex-appeal; utterly vulnerable |
| Simon, George Thomas | Glenn Miller and His Orchestra | New York, T. Y. Crowell Co. [1974] | ? |
| Smith, Thorne | Turnabout | Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & company, incorporated, 1935, c1931. | |
| Smoot, Frank | Carole Landis: A small-town midwest beauty - I | [published on website www.carolelandis.net ~ 2003] | no longer available |
| Carole Landis: A small-town midwest beauty - II | [published on website www.carolelandis.net ~ 2003] | no longer available | |
| Solomon, Aubrey | Twentieth Century-Fox: A corporate and Financial History | Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1988. | grosses for films |
| Stackpole, Peter | Life in Hollywood, 1936-1952 | Livingston, Mont.: Clark City Press, 1992 | [72-73] 4 pix of CL, incl Life leggy pic, 3 with McKenna |
| Stallings, Penny with Howard Mandelbaum | Flesh and Fantasy | NY: St Martins, 1978 | 3 pix of CL in Men are such fools (Face in the crowd); Here to eternity (tragedies); w Sharon Tate as Valley of Dolls character (no p. nos!!) |
| Starr, Jimmy | Barefoot on Barbed Wire | Lanham Md. & London: Scarecrow Press, 2001 | sex scene in SF ~1935 |
| Susann, Jacqueline | Valley of the Dolls | NY: Random House (Bernard Geis Associates), 1966 | Jennifer North based on Carole |
| Swann, Thomas Burnett | The heroine or the horse : leading ladies in Republics films | South Brunswick [N.J.] : A. S. Barnes, c1977. | 43-46 sympathetic bio (favorable compar. w MM) w 3 pix |
| Tornabene, Lyn | Long Live the King: A Biography of Clark Gable | NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1976 | CL & 'pistol-pointed breasts' |
| Treadwell, Bill | Give It to Me Easy; A Thousand and One Characters | Cynthiana, Ky., Hobson Book Press, 1944 | |
| Vogel, Michelle and Liz Nocera | Hollywood Blondes: Golden Girls of the Silver Screen | Shelbyville, Ky.: Wasteland Press, 2007 | Chap. on Carole, many inaccuracies |
| Walker, Alexander | Fatal Charm: The Life of Rex Harrison | NY: St. Martins Press, 1992 | extensive disc. of CL/RH |
| Wapshott, Nicholas | Rex Harrison | London: Chatto & Windus, 1991 | usual disc of CL |
| War Activites Committee | Movies at War | War Activities Committee, Motion Picture Industry, 1301 Bway NYC 1942-45 | 4 yearly reports bound together |
| Ward, Richard Lewis | A History of the Hal Roach Studios | Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005 | just mentions CL. HR in financial difficulties in 1940; 1MBC not successful |
| Weaver, Tom | Monsters, Mutants and Heavenly Creatures: Confessions of 14 Classic Sci-Fi/Horrormeisters! | Midnight Marquee Pr Inc: 2001 | CL's figure, sense of humor |
| Westmore, Ern and Bud | Beauty, Glamour and Personality | Sandusky, Ohio, Prang Co. 1947 | CL not mentioned in text; 1p pic is last item in book before 1p conclusion |
| Wilcoxon, Henry w Katherine Orrison | Lionheart in Hollywood : the autobiography of Henry Wilcoxon | Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1991 | CL nice person, got raw deal w RH |
| Wiley, Mason and Damian Bona | Inside Oscar: The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards | New York : Ballantine Books, 1986 | 1941, 44 at ceremony |
| Williams, Esther with Digby Diehl | The Million Dollar Mermaid | NY: Harcourt (A Harvest Book), 1999 | crack re bosom; RH didn't come home; LP was there |
| Wilson, Earl | Hot Times: True Tales of Hollywood and Broadway | Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1984 | CL. joke |
| I am Gazing into my 8-Ball | Garden City, NY: Sundial Press, 1945 | CL measurements, bowlegs, writing 4 Jills | |
| Let 'em eat cheesecake | Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1949 | V-neck story | |
| The Show Business Nobody Knows | Chicago: Cowles Book Co., 1971 | CL & Russell 'big 4' | |
| Wise, James E and Anne Collier Rehill | Stars in blue : movie actors in America's sea services | Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c1997. | 1p pic of CL at mike on platform in Hawaii |
| Witney, William | In a door, into a fight, out a door, into a chase : moviemaking remembered by the guy at the door, foreword by Francis M. Nevins, Jr. | Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c1996. | Chapter 12 on Daredevils p143-59 |
| Woll, Allen L. | The Hollywood musical goes to war | Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1982 | mentions 4 Jills p 140-41, sm pic from film; superficial details |
| Wright, Cobina [Sr.] | I Never Grew Up | NY: Prentice-Hall, 1952 | mentions '3 Jills' |
| Wright, Mike | What They Didn't Teach You About World War II | Presidio Press, 2000 | CL inspired term 'GI Jills' |
| Zukor, Adolph | The Public is Never Wrong | NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1953 | CL lovely & able to play drama |
| Author | Title | Publication | Comments |
| Astor, Mary | A life on film. Intro Sumner Locke Elliott | New York, Delacorte Press [1971] | |
| My story: an autobiography | Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1959 | ||
| Boller, Paul & Ronald Davis | Hollywood Anecdotes | NY: William Morrow, 1987 | anecdote re Mae's brothel |
| Bubbeo, Daniel | The women of Warner Brothers : the lives and careers of 15 leading ladies : with filmographies for each | Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2002 | incl Blondell, Francis |
| Coffey, Frank | Always Home: 50 years of the USO | Brasseys, 1991 | manages to talk about ww2 without mentioning CL or the 4 Jills |
| Davis, Ronald | Hollywood Beauty: Linda Darnell and the American Dream | U Okla, 1991 | |
| The Glamour Factory | Dallas: SMU Press, 1993 | ||
| Dick, Bernard F. | Engulfed: The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood | Lexington KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2001. | passage on mezzo sopranos |
| Dmytryk, Edward | Hollywood's Golden Age | Boalsburg, PA: BearManor Media, 2003 | Mostly early reminiscences; nothing re MSR, Paramount |
| Drew, William M. | At the center of the frame : leading ladies of the twenties and thirties | Lanham, Md. : Vestal Press, [1999] | Claire Trevor claims she was offered he "Oomph girl" title before Sheridan. |
| Dunne, John Gregory | The Studio | NY: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1968 | Fox in the 60s |
| Dyer, Richard | Only entertainment | London ; New York : Routledge, 2002 | |
| Etcoff, Nancy | Survival of the prettiest : the science of beauty | NY: Doubleday, c1999. | waist-hip ratio |
| Farber, Stephen and Marc Green | Hollywood Dynasties | NY: A Delilah Book, dist. by Putnam Publishing Group, 1984 | no index |
| Finch, Christopher and Linda Rosenkrantz | Gone Hollywood | Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979 | CL not in index |
| Flynn, Errol | My wicked, wicked ways | New York, Putnam [1960, c1959] | no index |
| Gargan, William | Why me? an autobiography | Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1969 | no index |
| Glynn, Prudence | Skin to Skin: Eroticism in Dress | NY: Oxford UP 1982 | |
| Guiles, Fred Lawrence. | Joan Crawford : the last word | Secaucus, N.J. : Carol Pub. Group, c1995. | JC's promiscuity |
| Hadleigh, Boze | Hollywood lesbians | New York : Barricade Books, c1994 | Conversations with: Sandy Dennis, Barbara Stanwyck, Marjorie Main, Nancy Kulp, Patsy Kelly, Agnes Moorehead, Edith Head, Dorothy Arzner, Capucine, Judith Anderson |
| Hannsberry, Karen Burroughs | Bad boys : the actors of film noir | Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2003. | |
| Femme noir : bad girls of film | Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1998 | CL not in index | |
| Jerry Giesler as told to Pete Martin | The Jerry Giesler story | New York : Simon and Schuster, 1960 | case studies incl Berkeley, Flynn... |
| Karol, Michael | Lucy A to Z | Lincoln, NE: iUniverse Star, 2001 | re Kenny Morgan |
| Keyes, Evelyn | I'll Think about That Tomorrow | NY: Dutton, 1991 | no CL content |
| Lamparski, Richard | Lamparski's Hidden Hwd | NY: Simon & Schuster, 1981 | no mention of CL |
| Leaming, Barbara | Bette Davis: A Biography | Simon & Schuster, 1992 | |
| Levin, Martin | Hwd and the Great Fan Magazines | NY: Arbor House 1970 | no mention of CL |
| Madsen, Axel | The sewing circle: Hollywoods greatest secret: female stars who loved other women | Secaucus, N.J. : Carol Pub. Group, c1995 | |
| Marx, Samuel | Mayer and Thalberg: The Make-Believe Saints | Hollywood: Samuel French, 1988 [1975] | |
| McDonald, Paul | The star system : Hollywood's production of popular identities | London: Wallflower, 2000 | |
| McLellan, Diana | The girls : Sappho goes to Hollywood | New York: LA Weekly Books, c2000 | |
| Meredith, Burgess | So Far, So Good: A Memoir | Boston: Little, Brown, 1994 | |
| Mordden, Ethan | The Hollywood studios : house style in the golden age of the movies | NY: Simon & Schuster, 1988 | |
| Noble, John Wesley and Bernard Averbuch | Never Plead Guilty: The Story of Jake Ehrlich | NY: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1955 | |
| Palmer, Lilli | The Red Raven | London: W.H. Allen, 1976 | triangle-suicide, character (Anabel) unlike CL |
| Rosen, Marjorie | Popcorn Venus | New York, Avon [c1973] | female sexuality in Hwd |
| Schatz, Thomas | Boom and Bust: The American Cinema in the 1940s (History of American Cinema v. 6) | NY: Scribner's/Simon & Schuster Macmillan 1997 | no mention of CL |
| Hollywood genres : formulas, filmmaking, and the studio system | Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c1981 | ||
| The genius of the system : Hollywood filmmaking in the studio era | New York : Henry Holt and Company, 1996 | ||
| Tapert, Annette | The Power of Glamour: The Women Who Defined the Magic of Stardom | NY: Crown Publishers, 1998 | CL only mentioned in 4 Jills. Swanson, Crawford, Garbo, Francis, Hepburn, Shearer... |
| Tierney, Gene, with Mickey Herskowitz | Self-portrait | New York : Wyden Books : trade distribution by Simon and Schuster, c1979. | Omits CL from list of 'Fox girls' |
| Turner, Lana | Lana--the lady, the legend, the truth | NY: Dutton, 1982 | |
| Vogel, Michelle | Gene Tierney: A Biography | Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2005. | no footnotes |
| Wagner, Walter | You Must Remember This | NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1975 | 24 Interviews, incl Jessel, Ann Rutherford, Ken Murray... |
| Warren, Doug | Betty Grable: The Reluctant Movie Queen | NY: St. Martin's Press, 1981 | on DZ, nil on CL |