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  1. 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. [2]

  2. One obvious reference point for the film is Hollywood Babylon, the notorious 1959 book by filmmaker Kenneth Anger about the supposed scandals of early Hollywood whose purple prose about murder...

  3. Nov 15, 1975 · Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets Mass Market Paperback – November 15, 1975. by Kenneth Anger (Author) 4.3 903 ratings. #1 Best Seller in Movie History & Criticism. See all formats and editions.

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  4. Hollywood Babylon #1. Kenneth Anger. 3.71. 5,688 ratings583 reviews. Originally published in Paris, this is a collection of Hollywood's darkest and best kept secrets from the pen of Kenneth Anger, a former child movie actor who grew up to become one of America's leading underground film-makers.

  5. Jun 5, 2023 · In 1959, writer and experimental film director Kenneth Anger published Hollywood Babylon, his seminal tome exploring the sordid lives of Tinseltown's biggest stars.

  6. Dec 27, 2022 · What’s the real-life Hollywood history behind ‘Babylon’? We asked the experts Margot Robbie plays actress Nellie LaRoy in Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon.”

  7. Damien Chazelle's new Hollywood epic tells the story of a debaucherous Tinseltown during the transition from silent films to talking pictures.

  8. A classic “dig the dirt and tell allcompilation delighting in the moral hypocrisies and excesses - drink, drugs and amoral behaviour - of Hollywood stars in its classic era (broadly the 1920s Prohibition through to the 1950s).

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  9. Hollywood Babylon: With Allison Bibicoff, Tony Curtis, Don Francks, William Davidson. Tony Curtis hosts this docudrama adaptation of Kenneth Anger's series of books of the same name, detailing gossip and scandals from the golden age of Hollywood.

  10. About Hollywood Babylon. “Picking through the slag heap of the Hollywood dream factory, [Kenneth] Anger has put together a truly prodigious anthology of star-studded scandal.”—The New York Times Welcome to Hollywood.