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"