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Author Sorel, Edward, 1929- author.

Title Mary Astor's purple diary : the great American sex scandal of 1936 / Edward Sorel.

Publication Info. New York : Liveright Publishing Company, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]

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Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  791.43 SOR    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  B ASTOR MARY S    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  791.43 SOR    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO ASTOR    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  791.43 SOREL    Check Shelf
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  791.43 SOREL    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Biography  B-ASTOR SOR    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  791.43 SOR    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  791.43 ASTOR    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  791.4302 ASTOR S    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 167 pages : color illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Summary 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 Mary's 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.
Subject Astor, Mary, 1906-1987.
Astor, Mary, 1906-1987. (OCoLC)fst00181687
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
Sex scandals -- United States.
Sex scandals. (OCoLC)fst01742913
Motion picture actors and actresses. (OCoLC)fst01027096
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.
Genre/Form Comics (Graphic works) (OCoLC)fst01921613
Biographies.
Added Title Purple diary
ISBN 9781631490231 (hardcover)
1631490230 (hardcover)
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