Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets Mass Market Paperback – Illustrated, 1 Aug. 1998

Interesting i like reading what goes on in Hollywood even the scandals, this book is telling them all

Good.

Anger's famous book about the hedonsitic early years of Hollywood. The all-powerful studios wanted the cinema going public to think their stars were pure whiter than white and often covered up their goings on. This book was something of a sensation when it came out in the 1970'sA knowledge of some of the early film stars would help. The author throws names around like confetti, you might not be familiar with some of the actors/actresses who populate the pages. There are some gorgeous publicity photographs, and some not so gorgeous death scenes.This book is best read in small portions, as I'd imagine ploughing through chapter after chapter of film stars variously shagging, drinking, injecting substances, becoming bankrupt, fighting court cases and OD'ing (even sometimes all of these things) would only get boringly repetetive. A good scandalous read if you like this sort of thing.

This book is a great read - loads of Hollywood gossip and stories I didn't know about. Compact little paperback, lots of photographs throughout. First class condition, arrived quickly too.

Some titillating tales but a bit disappointing overall, very short chapter style of this book means you never learn more than a few snippets about each star,

This was a present for Christmas so i can't comment too much but if you like the subject matter, you will probably like this book. Hubby loved it and found it very interesting.

Book lived up to the condition as described, and the book itself is very entertaining - there are many that claim that the historic details are so-so as for what the truth factor is concerned, but the photographic material alone is worth the price of the book!

A classic “dig the dirt and tell all” compilation delighting in the moral hypocrisies and excesses - drink, drugs and amoral behaviour - of Hollywood stars in its classic era (broadly the 1920s Prohibition through to the 1950s). Anger, a pioneering Underground filmmaker is a fascinated yet detached observer of the industry and deploys his encyclopaedic knowledge with caustic wit.Anger relays salacious insider gossip along with the outpourings of moral indignation (laced with titillation) from the scandal sheets of times past. Images of court room dramas, crime scenes or paparazzi shots of stars not at their best debunk the impeccable glossy image stars were once meant to project.While it is great this has been re-published, it is disappointing the publishers decided on a small paper back size for this edition, when a magazine size format would have had greater impact.