December 31, 2021: Last year you probably didn’t care that I listed the five best books about old Hollywood that I read in 2020. This year I’m assuming you don’t care about the five best books about old Hollywood that I read in 2021. Well, I care, so I am once again providing links to the swell things that I wrote about the books I’ve selected, this time after an arduous winnowing of six titles down to five. They are here, presented alphabetically and with needless tetchiness:

Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World by Wil Haygood

Forever Young by Hayley Mills

Sinatra and Me: In the Wee Small Hours by Tony Oppedisano with Mary Jane Ross

When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

Windhall by Ava Barry