A review by pocketvolcano
Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets by Kenneth Anger

5.0

I had heard about this book when reading another book, and it was described as a lurid true account of hollywood’s Stars and starlets. Which is exactly what it turned out to be. It reads like an old fashioned tabloid except that it has more sympathy towards the people it writes about (or some of them at least). It’s fascinating, juicy, descriptive and sometimes gruesome (it includes pictures - heads up there’s one of the car crash that killed Jayne Mansfield and then a page later a close up of her dead dog laying outside the car. Oof.) I highly enjoyed this, it was fascinating learning about the lows of Hollywood stars and starlets.