Mary Astor's purple diary, the great American sex scandal of 1936, Edward Sorel
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  • Mary Astor's purple diary, the great American sex scandal of 1936, Edward Sorel
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  • Mary Astor's purple diary
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  • the great American sex scandal of 1936
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  • Edward Sorel
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  • Purple diary
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  • eng
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  • In 1936 newspapers were ablaze with a scandalous child custody trial taking place in Hollywood and starring the actress Mary Astor; the story pushed Hitler and Franco off the front pages. George S. Kaufman, then the most successful playwright on Broadway and a married man to boot, had been Astor's lover. The scandal revolved around Marys diary, which her ex-husband, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, had found when they were still together. Mary, he claimed, had not only kept a tally of all her extramarital affairs but graded them-- and he already alerted the press in order to obtain a divorce and get custody of their daughter. Sorel provides all the juicy details of this particular slice of Hollywood Babylon, including Mary's life as a child star, and her teenage love affair with the much older John Barrymore
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  • non fiction
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  • 937452609
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