Hollywood Babylon By Kenneth Anger 1st Edition 1975 Jayne Mansfield Cover

Description: HOLLYWOOD BABYLON is much more than a Who's Who of the movie capital. Its basic thrust is Who did What to Whom - and When and Where - and how much the piper had to be paid. Through these gorgeously illustrated pages flitter and glitter, whirl and twirl, in public paradise and private hell, the faces and forms of fantasy figures - who may have been born in Squeedunk, lowa as Norma Jean Slurp, Bertram Wartfish, and the like but who as Movie Stars were pressed into the service of our dreams by the great Hollywood Studios, the variegated caterpillars emerging as Jean Harlow, Ramon Novarro, Wally Reid, Rudy Valentino, Mabel Normand or Lana Turner. Great Condition! Small imperfection tear on dust cover (see pics). This fascinating book is not merely another exposé, rather an affectionate and bittersweet backward glance at the fabled and foibled stars in their orbits, its intermittent black humor nearly always tinged by rose-colored glasses. Yet HOLLYWOOD BABYLON is not nostalgia. Originally written in French and published in Paris in an edition long since out of print, the book was conceived years before the current nostalgia craze engulfed us in a neurotic flight from harsh realities. Stripping away the spangles and the glitter, an intriguing chapter on mobster Bugsy Siegel reveals the seamy underbelly of the glamour capital's underworld connections. Another fully documented section details all the ticklish shenanigans in the early career of Sir Charlie Chaplin. Perhaps the most moving chapter of all is Anger's tribute to the tortured life and aborted career of Frances Farmer, that haunted spirit who was trapped on the silver screen like a butterfly in an iron vise. BLVD SPEEDWAY UNIVERSA CAHUENGK BEVERLY HILLS VICTOR LAMAZE >WN BEVERLY WILSHIRE NILSHIRE 20TH CENTURY FOX VENICE BREA M.G.M Book

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