Jean Harlow in Dinner at Eight (1933).
It's International Literacy Day. Make sure you teach a kid that reading is cool! From the trailer for Howard Hawks's The Big Sleep (1946).
Lil Dagover in The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1919).
Casper the Friendly Ghost curls up with a good book (or BOOOOOOOOK!) in "There's Good Boos Tonight" (1948).