Hollywood Babilonia
Ratings11
Average rating3.5
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Ratings11
Average rating3.5
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2 primary booksHollywood Babylon is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 1959 with contributions by Kenneth Anger and Ida Omboni.
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I enjoyed Anger's pulp history of the dark side of early Hollywood, all the scandals, murders, excess and suicides for Hollywood's glory days. I thought of it less as facts, and more pulp proses about how all the money and fame lead many stars down some strange paths, and ugly ends.
I skipped the You Must Remember This season about this book because I wanted to read it first but now that I have, I'm really looking forward to the podcast dissecting it. This has a reputation for being salacious, and also quite possibly entirely made up, and reading it confirmed both the former and the latter. There are no sources cited, he openly references rumor and conjecture as the basis for the innuendos he repeats. There is also racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny, and homophobia! It was a quicker read than its page count suggests, there are a ton of black and white photos (some of which are quite upsetting, like images of people and animals after they have died!) that pad it out. It's not really worth reading unless you're an Old Hollywood completist.
