Old hollywood gay stars

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Thank you , will have to check out your recommendation.

Reading Hollywood Babylon am struck at all the suicides, murders (unsolved) and other criminal activity (including drugs). Knew hard core drugs were around since tardy 1800's or so, but had no idea so much of Hollywood were dope fiends.

The unsolved murders are also striking. More so since people called the studios, other actors, and everyone else first before LE. By period LE did arrive the crime scene was often not only contaminated but things missing.

Some quick truth checking already proves Kenneth Anger played fast and lose with the reality. His gory account of Marie Prevost's death is largely fiction.

Cool thing, to me anyway is many of the places where various Hollywood stars dedicated suicide are still around. Wonder if any are haunted?

The gay subculture of early Hollywood has gained more attention recently thanks to the Netflix series Hollywood. While the show does feature portrayals of some real star characters, its main attention is on the pretend minority characters and the made-up success story of their diverse film. Many stars in Hollywood from the 1930s suppressed their sexuality. They didn’t fetch the freedom that LGBT performers have now, but that doesn’t mean their lives needed a inaccurate happy ending in instruction to be recognized and appreciated.

Knowing the complete history of LGBT stars in the first decade of Hollywood is difficult since, in order to appeal to the public, publicists believed that aspect of their lives needed to be hidden. Knowing as much as we carry out about some LGBT stars is a feat considering how much rewriting and covering up the Hollywood studio heads did to everyone they managed, whether gay or straight. Biographies were changed to sound more interesting or relatable to fans, and relationships were deliberately orchestrated to publicize a movie or introduce a new celestial body to the public. The only indication of some stars’ hidden