Biography
Kenneth Anger's Hollywood babylon
1979·362 pages
Sensational tell-all of Golden Age Hollywood scandals, excess, addiction, and tragedy behind the glittering façade.
Owned
No reviews yet
Owned
Sensational tell-all of Golden Age Hollywood scandals, excess, addiction, and tragedy behind the glittering façade.
About
Details
“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 a...
More In This Series
View all books in this series
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
AI
Lurid accounts of orgies, affairs, and sexual assaults among stars
Violence & gore
AI
Murders and brutal killings, including graphic star death accounts
Profanity
AI
Occasional crude phrasing in sensational scandal narration
Substance use
AI
Cocaine, heroin, and alcohol excess; addiction among major stars
LGBTQ+ Rep.
AI
Recurring accounts of gay stars and closeted Hollywood relationships
Religious content
AI
No evidence found in available sources
Magic & witchcraft
AI
No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
AI
No evidence found in available sources
Political content
AI
Mafia ties and Hollywood power structures noted in passing
Self-harm / suicide
AI
Marilyn Monroe suicide and other star suicides recounted
Abuse & suffering
AI
Sexual assault, child sexual abuse, rape-death case; star exploitation
Other
AI
No information found