The Purple Diaries: Mary Astor and the Most Sensational Hollywood Scandal of the 1930s
1936 was a great year for the movie industry―the financial setbacks of the Great Depression were subsiding, so theater attendance was up. Americans everywhere were watching the stars, and few stars shined as brightly as one of America's most enduring screen favorites, Mary Astor.But Astor's...
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1936 was a great year for the movie industry―the financial setbacks of the Great Depression were subsiding, so theater attendance was up. Americans everywhere were watching the stars, and few stars shined as brightly as one of America's most enduring screen favorites, Mary Astor.But Astor's personal story wasn't a happy one. Born poor and widowed at twenty-four, Mary Astor
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Format: Audio CD
ISBN:
9781455137237 (1455137235)
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Edition language: English
I knew I was going to love this book the moment the author started talking about John Barrymore. At the core of the book it's really just about a child custody case and how it plays out in a courtroom between two loving parents who want custody at any cost, but it's the tertiary stories that pop up ...
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