Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema

By Petersen, Anne Helen

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9780142180679 9781101635476
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Plume


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Reviewed on September 15, 2014  |  Arts and Humanities

In Hollywood's early days, movie studios resisted promoting actors as stars, fearing unreasonable salary demands. But audiences craved information about screen favorites, creating a strain between the actors' on-screen images and their sometimes scandalous offscreen behavior. Their antics eventually attracted the attention of decency groups, which threatened censorship and demanded an industry production code. This book, inspired by the author's web columns of the same nam...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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