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• Audrey at Home

  Memories of My Mother's Kitchen With Recipes, Photographs, and Personal Stories

  Dotti, Luca, 1970-

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  Audrey Hepburn won the 1954 Best Actress award for "Roman Holiday".

• Hattie McDaniel

  Black Ambition, White Hollywood

  Watts, Jill, 1958-

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  Hattie McDaniel won the 1939 Best Supporting Actress award from her role as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind". She was the first black person to be nominated, and the first black person to win an Academy Award.

• I'll Scream Later

  Matlin, Marlee

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  Marlee Matlin won the 1987 Best Actress Oscar for her role in "Children of a Lesser God". She is the first deaf person to win an Oscar, and the youngest woman to take home the Best Actress award.

• Julie Andrews

  An Intimate Biography

  Stirling, Richard

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  Julie Andrews won the 1964 Best Actress Oscar for the titular role in "Mary Poppins".

• Rita Moreno

  a Memoir

  Moreno, Rita

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  Rita Moreno was the first Latina to win an acting Oscar in 1961 when she took home the award for Best Supporting Actress in "West Side Story".

• Bits and Pieces

  My Mother, My Brother, and Me

  Goldberg, Whoopi, 1955-

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  Whoopi Goldberg won the 1990 Best Supporting Actress award for "Ghost".

• Me

  Stories of My Life

  Hepburn, Katharine, 1907-2003

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  Katharine Hepburn has won the most Best Actress Oscars with a total of 4: in1922/23 for the film "Morning Glory", in 1967 for "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner", in 1968 for "The Lion in Winter" and in 1981 for "On Golden Pond".

• I Got This

  How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

  Hudson, Jennifer, 1981-

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  Jennifer Hudson won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 2007 for "Dreamgirls".

• Maggie Smith

  a Biography

  Coveney, Michael, 1948-

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  Maggie Smith won the Best Actress award in 1969 for "The Prime of Miss jean Brody" and the Best Supporting Actress award in 1978 for "California Suite".

• Where Madness Lies

  the Double Life of Vivien Leigh

  Spence, Lyndsy, 1988-

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  Vivien Leigh won 2 Best Actress Awards, the first in 1940 for her iconic portrayal of Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone With the Wind", and then again in 1952 for "A Streetcar Named Desire".

• Bette Davis

  Thomson, David, 1941-

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  Bette Davis won 2 Best Actress Oscars, the first in 1936 for "Dangerous" and the second in 1939 for "Jezebel".

• Ingrid

  Ingrid Bergman, a Personal Biography

  Chandler, Charlotte

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  Ingrid Bergman won 2 Best Actress Oscars, one in 1944 for "Gaslight" and another in 1956 for "Anastasia". She also won the Best Supporting Actress award in 1974 for "Murder on the Orient Express".

• Joan Crawford

  the Essential Biography

  Quirk, Lawrence J.

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  Joan Crawford won a Best Actress Oscar in 1946 for the titular role in "Mildred Pierce".

• Grace Kelly

  Hollywood Dream Girl

  Jorgensen, Jay, 1964-

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  Grace Kelly won the 1955 Best Actress Oscar for "The Country Girl".

• Liz

  An Intimate Biography of Elizabeth Taylor

  Heymann, C. David (Clemens David), 1945-2012

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  Elizabeth Taylor won 2 best Actress awards, one in 1961 for "BUtterfield 8" and one in 1967 for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".

• My Name Is Barbra

  Streisand, Barbra,

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  Barbra Streisand won the Best Actress Oscar in 1969 for "Funny Girl".

• Lessons in Becoming Myself

  Burstyn, Ellen, 1932-

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  Ellen Burstyn win the Best Actress award in 1975 for "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore".

• Then Again: a Memoir

  Keaton, Diane

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  Diane Keaton won the Best Actress Oscar in 1977 for "Annie Hall".

• In Pieces

  a Memoir

  Field, Sally,

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  Sally Field has won 2 Best Actress Oscars, the first in 1980 for "Norma Rae" and the second in 1985 for "Places In The Heart".

• The Wall of Life

  Pictures and Stories From This Marvelous Lifetime

  MacLaine, Shirley, 1934-

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  Shirley MacLaine won the Best Actress Oscar in 1984 for "Terms of Endearment".