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Hollywood Babylon is a book by avant-gardefilmmakerKenneth Anger, which details the purported scandals of famous Hollywood denizens from the s to the s.

The book was banned shortly after it was first published in the U.S. in , and remained unavailable until reprinted ten years later.^[2] Upon its second release in , 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."^[3]The Daily Beast described Anger's book as "essentially a work of fiction.

There is no doubt that many—if not all—of the stories Anger shares in his slim bible have no merit."^[2] Film historian Kevin Brownlow repeatedly criticized the book, citing Anger as saying his research method was "mental telepathy, mostly".^[4][5]

Contents

Originally published in French in by J.J.

Pauvert (Paris) as Hollywood Babylone,^[6] the first U.S. edition of Hollywood Babylon was published in by Associated Professional Services of Phoenix, Arizona.^[7] A second U.S. edition was published by Rolling Stone′s Straight Arrow Press and distributed by Simon & Schuster, released in after a series of conflicts.^[8]

The book details alleged scandals of Hollywood stars from the silent era through to the s, including Charles Chaplin, Lupe Vélez, Mary Nolan, Rudolph Valentino, Marie Prevost, Mary Astor, Wallace Reid, Olive Thomas, Jeanne Eagels, Thelma Todd, Errol Flynn, Frances Farmer, Juanita Hansen, Mae Murray, Alma Rubens, John Gilbert, Barbara La Marr, Ramon Novarro, Jean Harlow, Carole Landis, Lana Turner, Judy Garland, and Marilyn Monroe.

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Hollywood Babylon also features chapters on the Fatty Arbuckle–Virginia Rappe scandal, the murder of William Desmond Taylor, the Hollywood blacklist, the murder of Sharon Tate, and the Confidential magazine lawsuits.

Criticisms

Exploitation

The book's edition featured graphic images such as the scene of the traffic accident that killed Jayne Mansfield,^[9] a photograph of Carole Landis after her suicide, images of director and screenwriter Paul Bern following his suicide, a photograph of Lewis Stone as he lay dying on a sidewalk, and uncensored images of the Black Dahlia's mutilated corpse.

Falsehoods

Although many of Anger's claims have been denounced as untrue since the book's initial publication,^[3][2] it is nonetheless responsible for many oft-quoted urban legends. For example, it claimed that Clara Bow engaged in sex with the entire USC football team, including a young John Wayne, a fallacy which has been debunked several times.^[3] Bow's sons considered suing Anger at the time of the book's second release.^[10]

The book also claimed that Lupe Vélez was found drowned in her own vomit with her head in a toilet after she committed suicide by swallowing more than sleeping tablets.^[11] There was no basis to the story; in , the first publication of a death photo showed Vélez had been found on her bedroom floor.^[12]

Other debunked urban legends started by the book include claims that impoverished film star Marie Prevost's body was partially eaten by her dachshund after she died in her Hollywood apartment in , and that Jayne Mansfield was decapitated in her fatal car accident.^[13]

Anger acquired the "lurid, grotesque, and often surreal" images that populate the book from a variety of sources such as Hollywood still gallaries, newspapers, magazines, police archives, or his own photography collection.

Both unintentionally and intentionally by taking artistic license, Anger misattributes or miscaptions a number of them.^[14] In the chapter covering the Fatty Arbuckle-Virigina Rappe scandal, a woman photographed in a mourning outfit is misidentified as Rappe's friend and witness to the incident Maude Delmont, when she is actually Arbuckle's wife Minta Durfee.^[15]

The fallacies, myths, and exaggerations of Hollywood Babylon were the focus of season 10 of Karina Longworth's podcast You Must Remember This: "Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon".^[14]

Sequels

Hollywood Babylon II was published in ^[16] It was greatly expanded in format but was not as well received as the first book.

It covered stars from the s to the s.

For years Anger said he intended to write a Hollywood Babylon III,^[8] and in a interview he claimed that the book had been finished but was placed on hold, explaining, "The main reason I didn't bring it out was that I had a whole section on Tom Cruise and the Scientologists.

I'm not a friend of the Scientologists."^[17] In , a book titled Hollywood Babylon: It's Back! was published. Written by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince, the book had no participation or association with Anger.^[8] Anger was reportedly so upset he placed a curse on the authors. (He was a self-proclaimed magician of the school of Thelema.)^[18]

In the movie Hollywood Babylon was released starring Uschi Digart as Marlene Dietrich, in which scenes from the book were reenacted.^[19]

A television series based upon the books was produced for syndication in – Hosted by Tony Curtis, the series featured dramatic reenactments of stories from Anger's books, augmented by veteran actor Curtis relating Hollywood-based anecdotes of his own.

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See also

• Full Service, by Scotty Bowers
• Babylon, a film by Damien Chazelle depicting a fictionalized s Hollywood that takes inspiration from claims featured in this book.

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