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. Review: Four Stars - Wonderful Review: Absorbing read, but a cheap product - It’s a highly entertaining read, but the seller has sent across what looks like a cheap photocopied edition of the book. The pictures are of low quality and the quality of the print is terrible. This book looks like one that was hurriedly photocopied and then stuck with some cheap glue. I would strongly suggest that potential buyers look for a better edition. I was charged close to Rs 500/- for this item, but you’ll get a better deal from the book sellers sitting on the pavements or from those selling this product at traffic lights.
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| Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 1,396 Reviews |
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Four Stars
Wonderful
B**U
Absorbing read, but a cheap product
It’s a highly entertaining read, but the seller has sent across what looks like a cheap photocopied edition of the book. The pictures are of low quality and the quality of the print is terrible. This book looks like one that was hurriedly photocopied and then stuck with some cheap glue. I would strongly suggest that potential buyers look for a better edition. I was charged close to Rs 500/- for this item, but you’ll get a better deal from the book sellers sitting on the pavements or from those selling this product at traffic lights.
G**R
Two Stars
very small print. Not worth the money
T**P
Lurid but intoxicating even 60 years later
Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon is a lurid, intoxicating plunge into the myth and muck of early Hollywood. It reads like a feverish scrapbook—half‑history, half‑provocation—mixing genuine archival oddities with sensationalism that’s impossible to fully trust yet equally impossible to look away from. Its power lies in the atmosphere it conjures: a dream factory built on glamour, secrecy, and ruin. As a cultural artifact, it’s less a reliable chronicle than a gothic portrait of an industry obsessed with its own shadows, and that’s precisely what makes it so compelling.
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A**A
Great book!
Great read .
A**R
All good
All good
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Read this book many years ago and lost it so wanted copy . Smaller than orginal book though
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