Mary Astor's purple diary the great American sex scandal of 1936
In 1936 newspapers were ablaze with a scandalous child custody trial taking place in Hollywood and starring the actress Mary Astor; the story pushed Hitler and Franco off the front pages. George S. Kaufman, then the most successful playwright on Broadway and a married man to boot, had been Astor's l...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Liveright Publishing Company, a division of W.W. Norton & Company,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | In 1936 newspapers were ablaze with a scandalous child custody trial taking place in Hollywood and starring the actress Mary Astor; the story pushed Hitler and Franco off the front pages. George S. Kaufman, then the most successful playwright on Broadway and a married man to boot, had been Astor's lover. The scandal revolved around Mary's diary, which her ex-husband, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, had found when they were still together. Mary, he claimed, had not only kept a tally of all her extramarital affairs but graded them-- and he already alerted the press in order to obtain a divorce and get custody of their daughter. Sorel provides all the juicy details of this particular slice of Hollywood Babylon, including Mary's life as a child star, and her teenage love affair with the much older John Barrymore. |
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| Physical Description: | 167 pages : color illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781631490231 1631490230 |
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