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

by ANGER, KENNETH

• ISBN13: 9780440153252
• ISBN10: 0440153255
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1981-11-15
• Publisher: Dell

Summary

“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.

Author Biography

Kenneth Anger is a former child movie actor who grew up to become one of America’s leading underground filmmakers.

Table of Contents

The Purple Dawn	3	(16)
The Clutching Hand	19	(8)
Fat Man Out	27	(20)
Panic at Paramount	47	(14)
Hays Fever	61	(10)
Good Time Wally	71	(10)
Champagne Baths	81	(8)
Heroin Heroines	89	(12)
The New Gods	101	(10)
Charlie's Nymphs	111	(12)
Lo: Lita	123	(16)
William Randolph's Hearse	139	(16)
Rudy's Rep	155	(16)
The Dirty Hun	171	(10)
Hollywood Headlines	181	(14)
Clara's Beaux	195	(12)
Saturn Over Sunset	207	(14)
Drastic Doubts	221	(8)
Enditalls	229	(14)
Babylon Babblers	243	(14)
Monster Mae	257	(14)
Diary in Blue	271	(12)
Death Garage	283	(12)
In Like Flynn	295	(12)
Who's Daddy? Sugar Daddy	307	(8)
Daughter of Fury: Frances, Saint	315	(12)
Chop-Suicide	327	(16)
Mr. Bugs Comes to Town	343	(14)
Red Tide	357	(6)
Peep Show Peccadillos	363	(8)
Con Game	371	(16)
Blood and Soap	387	(14)
Hollywoodämmerung	401	(23)
Index	424