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Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon | Peggy Hopkins Joyce and Charlie Chaplin
Aug 21, 2018The Kim Kardashian of her day, Peggy Hopkins Joyce was famous for being rich and famous—and for her marriages and involvements with rich and famous men, including Charlie Chaplin. Did Peggy really ask...
Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon | Thomas Ince and the Hearst "Coverup"
Aug 28, 2018Thomas Ince was one of early Hollywood’s most pioneering producers—in fact, some credit him for popularizing “producer” as a job title and for codifying what it meant to do the job, as well as helping...
Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon | Rudolph Valentino
Sep 04, 2018Rudolph Valentino was Hollywood’s first “latin lover.” His shocking death at the age of 31 was attributed to side effects from an appendectomy, but Hollywood Babylon forwards theories that Valentino m...
Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon | Clara Bow
Sep 11, 2018We’ll close this half of our Hollywood Babylon season with one of that book’s most famously distorted stories: the tale of “It” Girl Clara Bow’s supposed nymphomania and alleged “tackling” of the enti...
Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon | Mae West
Dec 04, 2018Mae West was the biggest new star in Hollywood in 1933, thanks to two hit films she co-wrote and starred in as a sexually implicit, wisecracking broad who romanced a young Cary Grant. In Hollywood Bab...
Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon | Mary Astor's Diary
Dec 11, 2018In 1936, actress Mary Astor (who had not yet made her most famous film, The Maltese Falcon) and her husband went to court to fight for custody of their four year-old daughter. The trail made internati...
Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon | Lupe Velez
Dec 18, 2018Mexican actress Lupe Velez was the victim of one of Anger’s cruelest invented stories. His fabrication of her manner of death lays bare a vicious racism in addition to Hollywood Babylon’s usual sexism...
Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon | Marlene Dietrich, Claudette Colbert, and the “sewing circle”
Dec 25, 2018The bisexuality of Marlene Dietrich was not exactly a secret in 1930s Hollywood -- in fact, her ambiguous sexuality was part of her on-screen brand. But there is some debate as to who Dietrich counted...
Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon | Bugsy Siegel
Jan 08, 2019Jewish gangster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel is frequently credited with corrupting Hollywood’s unions and “inventing” Las Vegas. Siegel did have movie star friends, but the true story of his involvement w...
Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon | The Trials of Confidential Magazine: Dorothy Dandridge
Jan 15, 2019Over two episodes, we will explore Hollywood Babylon’s coverage of Confidential Magazine and the two celebrities who testified against the scandal rag in the 1957 trial that helped end what Anger righ...