“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Zachary Scott and Ronald Reagan in Stallion Road 1947
13-year-old Julie Andrews
Adam West and Yvone Craig reading Detective Comics #359, which introduced Batgirl
Alfalfa
Alfred Hitchcock reading Daphne du Maurier’s Rebbeca with screenwriter Joan Harrison
Alice White
Ann Sothern
Anna Magnani reading about President Kennedy’s assassination
Astaire
Audrey
Ava Gardner
Lauren Bacall
Stanwyck
Bette in Dangerous 1935
Bing
Marlon
Brigitte Bardot
Bruce Lee
Burton
Keaton reading to Dorothy Sebastian in Spite Marriage 1929
Carole
Mr. Grant
Deneuve
Colbert
Cooper and Rogers reading on the radio
Cary and friend
Joan Crawford
Curtis and Leigh
Buster
Dean
Deborah Kerr
Dietrich
William Dieterle and Joan Fontaine
Duke Wayne
Eartha
Elizabeth Taylor
Errol Flynn and Eleanor Parker
Eva Marie and Cary on set North By Northwest
Fontaine
Frances Farmer
MacMurray and Haver
Gable reads GWTW
Coop
Ginger
Goddard and Chaplin
Betty Grable
Grace Kelly
Peck reads To Kill a Mockingbird
Grace in Rear Window
Garson and Leigh
Hedy Lamarr
William Holden
Ingrid Bergman
Stewart and Arthur in Mr. Smith
Jane Russell
Jean Arthur
Jean Simmons
Joan Crawford
Joanne Woodward
Wayne and Colbert in Without Reservations 1946
Kim Novak
Lana Turner
Sophia
Louise Brooks
Lucy reads a mystery
Margaret O’Brien
Marilyn
Marlene
Mary Pickford
Monroe
Monty Clift
Powell, Loy and Walter Connolly on set of Libeled Lady
Paula Prentiss
Peck
Peter Fonda
Joan Crawford
Pickford and Fairbanks
Rita Hayworth
Buster Keaton in Sherlock Jr.
Shirley MacLaine
Sidney Poitier with then wife Juanita Hardy
Sinatra
Sir Paul
Loren
Barbara Stanwyck
Gloria Swanson
Myrna Loy
Mr. and Mrs. Arnaz
The Bogarts
Spence and Kate
Ty Power
Valentino
Veronica Lake
Vivien Leigh
Powell
Agatha Christie
Ladd reads in large print
Alla Nazimova
Anita Loos
Ava
Avenging reading
Reading on 2001: A Space Odyssey
Billie Dove
Bogie
Bud Collyer
Bugs
Burgess Meredith in Twilight Zone episode “The Obsolete Man”
Carole and Cary
Charlotte Greenwood
Clara Bow
Comics read comics
Daffy
Dawn Wells
Deanna Durbin and Judy Garland read in Every Sunday 1936
Disney in 1951
Dorothy Dandridge
Dorothy Malone
Elizabeth Taylor
Elvis
Endora reads Harpies Bizarre
Ethel and Lucy
Evil reading
Irene Dunne
Mr. Flintstone
Garbo
Gary Cooper on set of A Farewell to Arms
Gena Rowlands
Ginger Rogers and William Marshall spoofing Bell, Book and Candle
Grandpa
Gregory Peck reading to Mary Badham during To Kill a Mockingbird shoot
GWTW reading for distraction
Harpo
Hitch bored with The World of Birds
Holly
Houdini
Jack Nicholson
James Dean reads while Elizabeth Taylor naps
Jimmy Stewart
Jean Arthur in publicity still for The Greene Murder Case
Hitchcock
Dean
Joan Fontaine in Suspicion
Josephine Baker
Judy Dench 1965
Julie Andrews
They Won’t Forget (1937) Directed by Mervyn Le Roy Shown: Lana Turner
Lauren Bacall and her mother
Leigh and de Havilland
Lemmon reads Mister Roberts as Pulver
Leslie Caron reads and stretches during break on An American in Paris
Lillian Gish in Romance of Happy Valley 1919
Liz Montgomery
Costello reads for Lost in a Harem 1944
Marilyn
Dietrich in The Song of Songs 1933
Brando method reading
The Marx Brothers
Pickford
McQueen
Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby 1968
Michael Caine
Paul Newman
Illogical
Olivier and Leigh
O’Toole studying for T. E. Lawrence
Burton and Taylor in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Rock Hudson
Sammy Davis, Jr.
June Lockhart in She-Wolf of London 1946
Mr. Charles reads shocking fairy tales
Sidney Poitier and Elizabeth Hartman on set of A Patch of Blue 1965
Sophia Loren
Stan and Ollie
The Shop Around the Corner
Thelma Todd
Tom and Jerry
Vincent
Welles
Gene Kelly
Katharine Hepburn
Lon Chaney, Jr., Tor Johnson, John Carradine and Bela Lugosi
Marion
Melvyn Douglas
The Wrong Man
Holliday in Born Yesterday 1950
Once upon a screen... 
Terrific! Think they’ve read every book there is!
What an extraordinary collection — my browser was grunting and groaning as it strained to open the page, so many pix are there.
I love the way that Burton looks so p.o.ed to be interrupted by some bloody photographer — now there’s a man who was really reading, not just posing for the camera!
Lol. Sorry about the number of images. It’s so difficult not to stop when I’m doing these collections. I agree! I love Burton’s image – speaks volumes.
speaks volumes
*groan*
Love it!
Boy, oh boy. Burton did not want to be disturbed.
Love Duke relaxing in his natural habitat.
Peck in glasses. Be still my heart!
Great stuff.
😀 Love how everyone’s noticing Burton’s scary stare.
LOVE this one big time – you are a keeper!
Is it true that the only things Richard Burton asked for in his divorces were his books?