Robert Osborne's Five Favourite Books About Show Business

(as printed in the Wall Street Journal’s “Five Best Books Column” on July 7, 2007)

“THE NAME ABOVE THE TITLE”
By Frank Capra
Macmillan, 1971

This is the best show business autobiography to date, bar none, written by a man who for many years was one of only three directors in Hollywood (the others: Cecil B. DeMille and Alfred Hitchcock) whose name meant as much on a marquee as any star. The life of Frank Capra...