Put on a pot of your favourite coffee, perk up, and enjoy nostalgic black-and-white photos that celebrate screen icons from the Silent Era through the eighties, making and drinking their own cups of joe, java, pour-overs, and percolated brews. Hollywood Cafe bridges the vibrant coffee culture of right-now with the glamorous coffee culture of the star-studded past. A dream cast of nearly 200 stars?Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Clara Bow, Charlie Chaplin, W. C. Fields, Robert Mitchum, Rita Hayworth, Bob Hope, Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, Ava Gardner, Jackie Gleason, Lucille Ball, Elvis Presely, Jayne Mansfield, Sammy Davis Jr., William Holden, Lauren Bacall, John Wayne, and many more?is captured on the set, on the run, in costume and out, behind-the-scenes and at the kitchen table, refilling and refuelling, sipping and savouring, drinking the good stuff, just like us. AUTHOR: Steven Rea writes about movies for The Philadelphia Inquirer. He is a member of the National Society of Film Critics, author of 'Hollywood Rides a Bike: Cycling With the Stars', and producer of the popular Tumblr blog ridesabike.com. He drinks coffee. 180 b/w photos
