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    Mary Astor's purple diary : the great American sex scandal of 1936 / Edward Sorel.
    by Sorel, Edward, 1929- author.
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  • Astor, Mary, 1906-1987.
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  • Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
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  • Sex scandals -- United States.
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  • Publisher Info: 
    New York : Liveright Publishing Company, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
    Edition: 
    First edition.
    Description: 
    167 pages : color illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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    text
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    9781631490231
    1631490230
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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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