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

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The inscription reads " To Mike Kenneth Anger" The book has some light damp stains along the top side edges.

Hollywood Babylon is a book by avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger which details the sordid scandals of many famous and infamous Hollywood denizens from the 1900s to the 1950s. William (Billy) Haines was the first MGM star to face the ordeal of a microphone with Lionel Barrymore in 1928 film “Jimmy Valentine.It begins in 1915, a convenient place to begin a history of the scandals of Hollywood, though the film business had already been around for almost a generation, and scandals and censorship battles had already become a part of it, as does anything touched by humans. Et sur le dernier tiers, consacré aux suicides, on dirait parfois une rubrique nécrologique avec 2 lignes de texte, parfois une photo, et la date de la mort. What makes the subject mattter of old Hollywood is not the subject itself, but how Kenneth Anger tells the tales. The 1966 American printing was suppressed but a 1975 reissue brought it public, albeit not critical, acclaim. Describes a book or dust jacket that has the complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc.

This book about the earlier stars and studios was originally published, long ago, in French in Paris.But interwoven into all the irresponsible rumor-mongering (Anger throws in every speculation about who was fucking whom and probably makes up a few of his own) is also a very perceptive history of Hollywood. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps.