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The Seduced | Linda Darnell
Nov 06, 2018A stunning brunette sex symbol married to cinematographer Pev Marley, Darnell thought her affair with Howard Hughes would result in marriage to the aviator. But after Hughes’ near-fatal 1946 plane cra...
The Seduced | Yvonne De Carlo
Nov 13, 2018The future Lily Munster became a star when producer Walter Wanger cast her in Salome, Where She Danced (1945). A curvaceous brunette in her early 20s, De Carlo fit the mold of Howard Hughes’ mid-centu...
The Seduced | Gina Lollobrigida
Nov 20, 2018This Italian pin-up, along with Sophia Loren and Brigitte Bardot, was emblematic of a brand of post-war European sexuality that America happily imported. But the Hollywood career of “La Lollo” was del...
Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon | D.W. Griffith, the Gish Sisters and the origin of "Hollywood Babylon"
Jul 03, 2018This season will interrogate Kenneth Anger’s controversial and influential gossip collection, Hollywood Babylon. Is this cult classic a needed subversive attack on Hollywood’s false idols, or a danger...
Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon | Olive Thomas
Jul 10, 2018The first Hollywood scandal to attract international attention was the death-by-poison of Olive Thomas, the twenty-five-year old star of au courant Hollywood hit The Flapper. According to Hollywood Ba...
Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon | Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Virginia Rappe
Jul 17, 2018At a boozy party over Labor Day weekend 1921, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, silent Hollywood’s superstar plus-size comedian, followed sometime actress Virginia Rappe into a hotel room. They were alone toge...
Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon | William Desmond Taylor
Jul 24, 2018The killing of director William Desmond Taylor was the third in a trifecta of scandals which, over the course of about a year and a half, painted such a sordid a picture of the movie colony as a hotbe...
Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon | Mabel Normand
Jul 31, 2018A frequent co-star of Roscoe Arbuckle’s, Mabel Normand was the definitive female screen comedienne of her generation. But it wasn’t her association with Arbuckle that brought Normand’s career to an ab...
Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon | Wallace Reid
Aug 07, 2018According to Hollywood Babylon, actor Wallace Reid—a morphine addict who died in an asylum at the age of 31—was the first sacrificial lamb of the post-scandal era, and Reid’s wife, a former teen star ...
Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon | Will Hays and "Pre-Code" Hollywood
Aug 14, 2018Who was Will Hays, and how did he come to put his name on the censorship “Code” that would shape the content of movies more than any other single force from the early 1930s into the 1960s? How much po...