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Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Dell
- Publish Date: Nov 15th, 1981
- Pages: 448
- Language: English
- Edition: Revised - undefined
- Dimensions: 6.70in - 4.20in - 1.10in - 0.75lb
- EAN: 9780440153252
- Categories: • Film - History & Criticism• Acting & Auditioning
About the Author
What people are saying
Critic, interviewer, lecturer, incurable movie-watcher, writer of reviews, interviews, short stories, essays, shopping lists..
Kenneth Anger is remarkably untrustworthy, at least as far as his ‘Hollywood Babylon’ books go. But I do hope that his story of Carmen hiding her coke stash in her seven-inch wedgies is true. It’s the kind of gossip that, if it’s not true, it should be. https://t.co/WsDWs0pZ0X
Kate Tuttle is a writer and editor.
I knew him only for his book Hollywood Babylon, which was ubiquitous among the art-punk crowd I hung with in college — up there with Edie and Wisconsin Death Trip. I never knew he was also a filmmaker. RIP, Kenneth Anger. https://t.co/JeYRPNu2BW
Bruce LaBruce is a filmmaker, writer, photographer and artist living in Toronto. Instagram: @brucelabruce
The legendary, hugely influential, unsinkable, unthinkable, beyond the valley of queer sexperimental filmmaker author & black magic woman Kenneth Anger is dead at 96. She & ghostwriter Elliott Stein wrote a salacious book about Hollywood called "Hollywood Babylon" which nailed it https://t.co/JGQcOVL0QZ
What people are saying
Critic, interviewer, lecturer, incurable movie-watcher, writer of reviews, interviews, short stories, essays, shopping lists..
Kenneth Anger is remarkably untrustworthy, at least as far as his ‘Hollywood Babylon’ books go. But I do hope that his story of Carmen hiding her coke stash in her seven-inch wedgies is true. It’s the kind of gossip that, if it’s not true, it should be. https://t.co/WsDWs0pZ0X
Kate Tuttle is a writer and editor.
I knew him only for his book Hollywood Babylon, which was ubiquitous among the art-punk crowd I hung with in college — up there with Edie and Wisconsin Death Trip. I never knew he was also a filmmaker. RIP, Kenneth Anger. https://t.co/JeYRPNu2BW