Kenneth Anger's book, 'Hollywood Babylon' takes the angle of a tabloid and digs up some old dirt of famous celebrity lives and puts it into a full collection of grime, grease and oil.

Like any newspaper article, events are turned into 'stories.' These 'stories', like any silver screen biography, tells the dramatic tale of a life in turmoil. Anger wrote a sequel, Hollywood Babylon II, in 1981 and has frequently mentioned that Hollywood Babylon III may be on its way. It was originally published in 1959 by J.J. Hollywood Babylonis a book by Kenneth Anger an ex-child star, avant garde filmmaker, occultist, and author, which details the sordid scandals of many famous and infamous Hollywood denizens from the 1900s to the 1950s. Hollywood Babylon : The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets - Kenneth Anger Hollywood Babylon (1959) - Kenneth Anger Jayne Mansfield on the cover of the Italian edition of Hollywood Babylon I It was just a junction of dirt roads, a solitary 'Mission-style' hotel, some claptrap bungalows scattered in the orange groves, and the startling apparation of a Babylon orgy in full swing in the sunshine, smack on Sunset Boulevard.

Hollywood was not yet a dirty word in 1916. Hollywood Babylon : The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets (1959) - Kenneth Anger

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