Uncover Hollywood's Darkest Secrets with 'Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic'

wolfee: was Sie schon immer über das sündenbabel wissen wollten aber nicht zu fragen wagten - in diesem reprint finden Sie's!

Germany on Nov 05, 2023

Gary Campbell: Get the dirt on hollywood, more of the same scandals you would expect from the first book.

United Kingdom on Sep 02, 2023

Amazon Customer: This book captures the stories about Hollywood and the powerful studios behind the demise of those aspiring to make it in Tinseltown. Fascinating.

Canada on Aug 29, 2023

Sam Luna: I once had a used copy of the original edition of this book from a thrift store, purchased in the 90's. After many moves over many years, I lost it. This trade paperback edition is not only a faithful edition of the original, it improves on it in the sense that it's more compact and readable without sacrificing any of the amazing photos of the era.

All made up? Salacious gossip?

Nah. I think this is the real McCoy -- Hollywood publicists be damned.

5/5 stars. Mr. Anger.

United States on Jul 29, 2023

lplynn: Have not yet read the book, but I find the photos to be so captivating, that they, by themselves, merit a 5 rating for the book, though some of them depict fairly ghoulish death scenes (Jayne Mansfield, Paul Bern).

United States on Jul 15, 2023

W. Dyer: This book came out decades before the movie. It's more detailed and more surprising than I'd expected. It's a hard book to find these days. It was shipped in appropriate packaging and in a timely manner. Description of the condition was accurate. This seller is recommended.

United States on Mar 18, 2023

David Fulmer: I think I first came across this book at the Dawn Treader Book Shop, way in the back where they shelve their Hollywood Film History books, among other popular sections like Science Fiction and Mysteries, like a pharmacy putting their most popular drugs in the back of the store so you have to walk past all their other products to get to what you came there for in the first place. And this is that kind of book - it’s like a drug, addictive, pleasurable, you can’t put it down. I have heard that it suffers from a surfeit of factual inaccuracies, and I can confirm that a cursory googling of almost any chapter of this book will turn up errors. For example, Peg Entwistle didn’t jump off the ‘D’ of the Hollywood sign, she jumped off the ‘H’. Barbara La Marr didn’t have 6 husbands, she had 4. And Thelma Todd’s body wasn’t discovered in a Packard, it was discovered in a Haverhill brown 1932 Lincoln KB Dual Cowl Phaeton. But getting bogged down over whether a starlet was discovered dead in a Packard or a Lincoln misses the point of this book. It is a salacious, well-illustrated, tabloidy counter-history of Hollywood. It’s a crime-scene photo-illustrated, sex and drugs...

United States on Mar 05, 2023

Anonymous: Ótimo.

Brazil on Apr 09, 2021

Marysol: Me encantó este libro ... Super apasionante . . . y con muchisisima información ...

Mexico on Aug 04, 2020

Rama Rao: This is an interesting book about the early history of Hollywood (1920s and 1930s) that focuses on excess of sex, drugs, alcohol, failed dreams and sad endings of some of the well known players including; Fatty Arbuckle, Wallace Reid, Barbara La Marr, Ramon Novarro, Greta Garbo, Charlie Chaplin, Tom Ince, Rudolph Valentino, Erich von Stroheim, Marion Davies, Clara Bow, John Gilbert, Jean Harlow & Paul Bern, Marlene Dietrich, Lili Damita, Claudette Colbert, Mary Astor, Frances Farmer, Thelma Todd, Carol Landis, Bugsy Siegel, Lupe Velez, Corinne Griffith, Mae Murray, Lana Turner, Marilyn Monroe, and Jayne Mansfield.

Rumors of riotous Hollywood highlife were common even with the watchful eye of movie czar and moral code enforcer Will Hays. Once, the New York Journal reported that when people spring from poverty to affluence, within a few weeks their mental equipment works differently, and with the new found freedom they spend money in bizarre ways; wild parties that lasts for days, women, drugs, alcohol, all to the extremes. Examples for extravagant life styles include; Harold Lloyd's Greenacres, a 40 room fortress with fountains; Gloria Swanson's golden bathtub in her...

United States on Jun 19, 2013