Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets

ISBN: 0440153255

Author: Anger, Kenneth

Condition: New

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 TimesWelcome to Hollywood. Take a walk down The Boulevard of Broken Dreams, where starlets, sex goddesses, matinee idols, American aristocracy, and Mafia moguls meet. Its a town made manic in its heyday by joy powder and cocaine-crazed comedies, seduced by vamping heroin heroines, shaken by Fatty Arbuckles orgiastic excesses and Errol Flynns amoral extravagances, stunned by Marilyn Monroes tragic suicide and Sharon Tates brutal murder.Here, as never revealed before, is the scalding reality behind the glittering faade: the true stories and darkest secrets behind the lurid headlines that have titillated the world and electrified the nation for decades.