David Smith, professor emeritus of telecommunications at Ball State University, wrote this coffee-table tome 
about Hoosiers who found fame in Hollywood. Here are some you may or may not know about:
- Alice Terry (born on a farm near Vincennes, she was a silent film star)
- Clifton Webb (born in Indianapolis, he made his opera debut in Tosca at the Boston Opera House at age 17)
- Red Skelton (grew up in a poor section of Vincennes called "Oklahoma," in the north end of town)
- William Marshall (born in Gary, he starred in the movie Blacula)
- Steve McQueen (born in Beech Grove as "an unwanted child who was virtually abandoned by his teen mother")
- James Dean (born in Marion and given the first name of his attending physician)
- Fred Williamson (born in Gary, he graduated from Northwestern in architecture, was drafted by the NFL, and played in Super Bowl 1 - he later directed or starred in 40 films)
- Greg Kinnear (born in Logansport and lived there until he was nine)
- Marilyn Miller (born in Evansville in 1898, she became the "Queen of Musical Comedy")
- Louise Dresser (born in Evansville in 1878, Dresser lived here until her teens and went on to star in both Vaudeville and silent films)
- Carole Lombard (born in Fort Wayne, her family moved to San Francisco when she was six)
- Marjorie Main (born near the small town of Acton in 1890, her most famous role was "Ma Kettle")
- Anne Baxter (born in Michigan City, she was the granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright)
- Betsy Palmer (lived in Hammond and East Chicago, then attended secretarial school, followed by the IU extension in Gary before becoming a theatre major at DePaul U in Chicago)
- Florence Henderson (the youngest of 10 children born to a poor farming family in Dale)
- Shelley Long (born and raised in Fort Wayne; both parents were school teachers)
- Vivica Fox (born in Indianapolis, she graduated from Arlington High School and later found fame as an actress and singer)
- Richard, Barbara, Constance, Joan Bennett (Richard, who grew up in Bennett's Switch, near Logansport, became an actor and producer and father to three actresses)
- Jackson Five (born and raised in Gary)
- Elmo Lincoln (born in Rochester and the first Tarzan -- in the 1918 Tarzan of the Apes)
- Buck Jones (born in Vincennes, he grew up in Indianapolis and later became a leading movie cowboy)
- Roberta Wise (born and raised in Connorsville, he later directed Citizen Kane and many other movies)
- Sydney Pollack (born in Lafayette, he moved to South Bend while in elementary school)
Many many more Hoosiers are covered in this heavily illustrated compendium.