Beauty Break: National Book Lovers Day
Saturday, November 7, 2020 at 10:00AM Curated by Nathaniel R
Clark Gable reading about Rhett Butler. Research!
Today is National Book Lovers Day so we thought we'd celebrate with heavenly creatures getting their book club on. Please enjoy these stars reading (or pretending to read) books for pleasure, or work, or photo-op purposes. Or sometimes as a character in a movie. We love this sort of pic as it's harder and harder in the real world to know what people are reading. You can no longer track what the hot book is by glancing around on the subway -- it's how i discovered lots of great books in the Aughts -- because everyone reads on very private tablets now.
Photo gallery after the jump...
America Ferrera reading "Bonjour Kale" while sipping what we hope is a Kale smoothie
Eartha Kitt reading about another genius
Ginger Rogers reading a book on a break. But we can't tell what it is
Research pt 2. Joanne Woodward reads "From the Terrace"
Emma Roberts and "Sex and Rage" not necessarily in that order
Harry Belafonte with a copy of "Crime and Punishment"
Research Pt 3. Bogie with "Dark Passage"
Isabelle Huppert in character reading in "Things to Come"
Leslie Caron would like privacy when she reads, merci
Reese is just the opposite. She wants everyone to read WITH her. Here she is with "End of the Affair" do you think she liked Julianna Moore's performance in the film version?
Mark Ruffalo being cheeky
Rita Hayworth reading about President Lincoln
Research Pt 4. Monty Clift reading "From Here to Eternity"
(It's been three weeks but we're still thinking fondly about how that Montgomery Clift Centennial went here. So proud that we made it through every film with our wondrous team)
Research Pt 5. Joan Crawford takes in "Flamingo Road"
Marilyn Monroe being an adorable bookworm
Pierre Png being sexy while reading in bed
Bollywood star Kajol reading the romance novel "A Coral Kiss"
Barbara Stanwyck reading at a restaurant. Was it Sardis?
Tony Perkins deep in "Look Homeward Angel"
Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker presumably doing homework with "The Song of Hiawatha"
Sophia Loren being fabulous while loving books.
There's even a coffee table book about this type of photo called "Hollywood Book Club"
Reader Comments (12)
Wonderful collection! Love all the pix, the Mark Ruffalo one made me chuckle.
Who knows how many are real and which are posed but I know Marilyn was an avid reader.
One detail that caught my eye was Joanne Woodward with a cigarette. It surprised me, she never struck me as a smoker.
I think Barbara Stanwyck is at the Brown Derby. From both the book and the caricatures on the wall it seems that way.
It looks like Ginger Rogers is reading “Nijinsky.”
Reese has recommended some good light beach reads. I particularly enjoyed Daisy Jones and the Six, about a fictitious Fleetwood Mac-type band. I hope the pandemic doesn't derail the plans for a Amazon limited series adaptation of that book. Riley Keough is great casting.
These photos are fascinating! They make are beloved and beautiful stars appear more human (whether staged or not). Harry Belafonte, Joan Crawford, Joanne Woodward, Eartha Kitt, and Barbara Stanwyck are favorites.
Harry Belafonte sexy even while reading.
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