Hollywood Babylon
by Kenneth Angerliterary work· published 1959
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Hollywood Babylon is a book by avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger, which details the purported scandals of famous Hollywood denizens from the 1900s to the 1950s. The book was banned shortly after it was first published in the U.S. in 1965, and remained unavailable until reprinted ten years later. Upon its second release in 1975, The New York Times said of it, "If a book such as this can be said to have charm, it lies in the fact that here is a book without one single redeeming merit." The Daily Beast described Anger's book as "essentially a work of fiction.
Adaptations (1)
Hollywood Babylon was adapted into a 1972 film.
Hollywood Babylon1972 · film · 87 min · dir. Van Guylder · IMDb ↗IMDb4.4This faux cautionary documentary features film clips and often humorous softcore reenactments of several notorious celebrity sex scandals from the golden age of Hollywood.
