ASIN: B015NKSHTM
Publisher: Encore Film Books
Pages: 443
Part of the Encore Film Book Classics series, this is a reprint of the original text to Hollywood Divas by James Robert Parish.Which slapstick redhead reduced Joan “Mommie Dearest” Crawford to tears? Which tragic songbird secretly carried vodka to her ambulance as she was carted off on a stretcher? Can you name the blonde prima donna who went on a shopping spree so wild that she bought a whole town? These are but a few of the high jinks of Hollywood’s favorite “It Girls,” whose overdrive to personal and career excess earned them the rank of diva.Each of the book’s 70 chapters reveals in rich detail the subject’s often torturous road to fame and how it shaped her oversized personality, needs, and demands. This volume delivers an eye-popping backstage peek into the lusty private lives and cutthroat careers of Hollywood’s most memorable bad girls over the decades. The iconoclastic ...
