Mary Astor's purple diary : the great American sex scandal of 1936 / Edward Sorel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sorel, Edward, 1929- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Astor, Mary, 1906-1987.

Astor, Mary.

Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Biography.

Motion picture actors and actresses.

United States.

Sex scandals--United States.

Sex scandals.

PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts.

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / General.

Local Subjects:

PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts.

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / General.

Genre:

Biographies.

Comics (Graphic works)

Physical Description:

167 pages : color illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Purple diary

Place of Publication:

New York : Liveright Publishing Company, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]

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 Marys 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.

ISBN:

9781631490231

1631490230

OCLC:

937452609