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

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I guess I read this for the same reason one cranes one's head to see the details of a traffic accident. It would take a couple of decades (just as its influence was waning, perhaps unsurprisingly) before old Hollywood in earnest turned a self-critical, unflinching gaze towards itself, through such films as Sunset Boulevard (1950) and The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). Used books have different signs of use and might not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material. Many years ago I lived in the courtyard apartments Charlie Chaplin built for his crew across the street from his studio on La Brea Avenue.

Even though it does not glamorize Hollywood in the least, I wanted to see that the people that are idolized in society so much are just as troubled, maybe even more than everyone else.On the eve of his death, he had attended a gay party in Malibu, and his gay friends accused him of dating women for publicity purposes. When MGM found out that William Haines, an upcoming star of the studio was gay, studio started rumors that he was in love with actress Pola Negri and they were getting married.

As the both feared and respected head of the Warner Brothers film studio, Jack had intimate knowledge of the dark underbelly of Golden Age Hollywood, the place where most dreams don’t come true at all, but come to perish in ignominy instead. Bound in publisher's original plain brown wraps with photo-illustrated dust jacket, profusely photo-illustrated. Trying to discern meaning from this has proven the perfect voyeuristic conclusion to the ultimate voyeur's book.Spine is a tad sunfaded and the red has become pink with title still bold but author name has all but disappeared. And Charlie Chaplin's mustache supplementing his income by performing mustache stand-in duties for Hitler? Murders and scandals were covered up by studio heads and corrupt LA cops who destroyed evidence and let suspects leave the country. Hollywood Babylon is a book by avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger, which details the purported scandals of famous Hollywood denizens from the 1900s to the 1950s.