The Stars by Richard Schickel. Hardcover with dust jacket. Copyright 1962.
Covers film stars from the 1920s through the 1950s. 287 pages with photos on almost every page.
Chapters are: Introduction, The Prototypes, The Twenties, The Comedians, The Thirties, The Heroes, The Forties, The Fifties, Index.
A very thorough compilation. Even Mickey Mouse is included! Also included are:
Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Lon Chaney, Eric Von Stroheim, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, The Marx Brothers, W. C. Fields, Mae West, Richard Powell, James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, Marlene Dietrich, Shirley Temple, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Carole Lombard, Henry Fonda, Tyrone Power, Fredric March, Barbara Stanwyck, Katherine Hepburn, Errol Flynn, John Garfield, Orson Welles, Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Jimmy Stewart, Hedy Lamarr, Rita Hayworth, Margaret O'Brien, Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, John Wayne, Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck, Kim Novack, William Holden, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Charleton Heston, Rock Hudson, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Lemmon, Sophia Loren, Tony Curtis, Elizabeth Taylor, and many more.