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Scandals of Classic Hollywood - Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema (Paperback)
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Scandals of Classic Hollywood - Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema (Paperback)
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Celebrity gossip meets history in this compulsively readable
collection from Buzzfeed reporter Anne Helen Peterson. This guide
to film stars and their deepest secrets is sure to top your list
for movie gifts and appeal to fans of classic cinema and hollywood
history alike. Believe it or not, America's fascination with
celebrity culture was thriving well before the days of TMZ, Cardi
B, Kanye's tweets, and the #metoo allegations that have gripped
Hollywood. And the stars of yesteryear? They weren't always the
saints that we make them out to be. BuzzFeed's Anne Helen Petersen,
author of Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud, is here to set the record
straight. Pulling little-known gems from the archives of film
history, Petersen reveals eyebrow-raising information, including: *
The smear campaign against the original It Girl, Clara Bow, started
by her best friend * The heartbreaking story of Montgomery Clift's
rapid rise to fame, the car accident that destroyed his face, and
the "long suicide" that followed * Fatty Arbuckle's descent from
Hollywood royalty, fueled by allegations of a boozy orgy turned
violent assault * Why Mae West was arrested and jailed for
"indecency charges" * And much more Part biography, part cultural
history, these stories cover the stuff that films are made of:
love, sex, drugs, illegitimate children, illicit affairs, and
botched cover-ups. But it's not all just tawdry gossip in the pages
of this book. The stories are all contextualized within the
boundaries of film, cultural, political, and gender history, making
for a read that will inform as it entertains. Based on Petersen's
beloved column on the Hairpin, but featuring 100% new content,
Scandals of Classic Hollywood is sensationalism made smart.
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