Product Description

Compiled from hundreds of interviews with survivors of the Silent Screen era, this is the most intimate and most realistic novel ever written about sex, murder, blackmail, and degradation in early Hollywood.

It's based on the loose-lipped gossip that was articulated within the drunken dinner parties of 1920s-era Hollywood. Many of the stories were committed to memory by some of the listeners, and recited, years later, to celebrity interviewer Darwin Porter.

Are all of the anecdotes in this info-novel true? Only the participants in those long-ago power struggles will ever really know. But if you believe, like Truman Capote, that "the artful presentation of gossip will become the literature of the 21st century," then this is a highly irreverent and juicy read."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #485499 in Books
• Published on: 2001-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 750 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780966803020
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
HOLLYWOOD'S SILENT CLOSET is a brilliant primer for the "Who's Who" of Early Hollywood. -- The Gay London Times, April, 2000

About the Author
Darwin Porter is the respected author of at least three mainstream biographies from Hollywood's Golden era. His biographies of Howard Hughes, Katharine Hepburn, and Humphrey Bogart have been cited as required reading for insights into what was really going on during Hollywood's Golden Age.

Hollywood's Silent Closet is not like his other works. The sources used in its compilation tended to be informal pieces of oft-repeated gossip. Blood Moon Productions, at first tempted to market it as a straight-line oral history, eventually decided agreed to release it in 2000 as an "info-novel," fully recognizing its value as an evocative insight into ambition, social climbing, and folly during Silent-Screen Hollywood's early infancy.

Read this book at your own risk--it definitely isn't for the timid, the prudish, or the squeamish. Incorporating a closeted cast of thousands, it names names and doesn't spare the guilty. In the process, the boudoir antics of many of the most eccentric hedonists of Hollywood's Silent Era are vividly replicated in ways you might never have seen in any other venue.