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

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“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.

From the Publisher

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Straight Arrow Books
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 15, 1975
Edition ‏ : ‎ Reprint
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0440153255
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0440153252
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.25 x 0.94 x 6.85 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #4,525 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #3 in Movie History & Criticism #11 in Popular Culture in Social Sciences #48 in Actor & Entertainer Biographies
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