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Dangerous Curves Atop Hollywood Heels - The Lives, Careers, and Misfortunes of 14 Hard-Luck Girls of the Silent Screen (Paperback)
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Dangerous Curves Atop Hollywood Heels - The Lives, Careers, and Misfortunes of 14 Hard-Luck Girls of the Silent Screen (Paperback)
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"We were like dragonflies. We seemed to be suspended effortlessly
in the air, but in reality, our wings were beating very, very
fast." - Mae Murray "It is worse than folly for persons to imagine
that this business is an easy road to money, to contentment, or to
that strange quality called happiness." - Bebe Daniels "A girl
should realize that a career on the screen demands everything,
promising nothing." - Helen Ferguson In Dangerous Curves Atop
Hollywood Heels, author Michael G. Ankerich examines the lives,
careers, and disappointments of 15 silent film actresses, who,
despite the odds against them and warnings to stay in their
hometowns, came to Hollywood to make names for themselves in the
movies. On the screen, these young hopefuls became Agnes Ayres,
Olive Borden, Grace Darmond, Elinor Fair, Juanita Hansen, Wanda
Hawley, Natalie Joyce, Barbara La Marr, Martha Mansfield, Mae
Murray, Mary Nolan, Marie Prevost, Lucille Ricksen, Eve Southern,
and Alberta Vaughn. Dangerous Curves follows the precarious routes
these young ladies took in their quest for fame and uncovers how
some of the top actresses of the silent screen were used, abused,
and discarded. Many, unable to let go of the spotlight after it had
singed their very souls, came to a stop on that dead-end street,
referred to by actress Anna Q. Nilsson as, Hollywood's Heartbreak
Lane. Pieced together using contemporary interviews the actresses
gave, conversations with friends, relatives, and co-workers, and
exhaustive research through scrapbooks, archives, and public
records, Dangerous Curves offers an honest, yet compassionate, look
at some of the brightest luminaries of the silent screen. The book
is illustrated with over 150 photographs.
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