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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100440153255
ISBN-139780440153252
eBay Product ID (ePID)443655
Product Key Features
Book TitleHollywood Babylon : the Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets
Number of Pages448 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPersonal Memoirs, Popular Culture, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Customs & Traditions, Industries / Entertainment
Publication Year1981
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics
AuthorKenneth Anger
FormatMass Market
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight11.4 Oz
Item Length6.8 in
Item Width4.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal791.430280922794
Synopsis"Kenneth Anger has fashioned a delicious . . . box of poisoned bonbons. Picking through the slag heap of the Hollywood dream factory, he] has put together a truly prodigious anthology of star-studded scandal."-- The New York Times Kenneth Anger is a former child movie actor who grew up to become one of America's leading underground filmmakers. Hollywood Babylon was originally published in Paris, and quickly became an underground legend. Not a word has been changed. Not a story omitted. Here is the hot, luscious plum of sizzling scandal that continues to shock the world., "Picking through the slag heap of the Hollywood dream factory, [Kenneth] Anger has put together a truly prodigious anthology of star-studded scandal."-- The New York Times Welcome to Hollywood. Take a walk down "The Boulevard of Broken Dreams," where starlets, sex goddesses, matinee idols, American aristocracy, and Mafia moguls meet. It's a town made manic in its heyday by "joy powder" and cocaine-crazed comedies, seduced by vamping heroin heroines, shaken by Fatty Arbuckle's orgiastic excesses and Errol Flynn's amoral extravagances, stunned by Marilyn Monroe's tragic suicide and Sharon Tate's brutal murder. Here, as never revealed before, is the scalding reality behind the glittering façade: the true stories and darkest secrets behind the lurid headlines that have titillated the world and electrified the nation for decades.