Babylon kenneth anger7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() OLIVE THOMAS : The first Hollywood scandal to attract international intentional was the death-by-poison of Olive Thomas, the twenty-five year old star of au courant Hollywood hit The Flapper. ![]() But what of Anger’s accusations that Griffith was a known pedophile, and that his stars, sisters Dorothy and Lillian Gish, were incestuous? Listen Anger’s use of that film’s Babylon set, which was left to stand and decay for years after the film came and went, as the structuring image of his gossip bible, helps to set the ironic tone of the book. Griffith, one of Hollywood’s first great directors, who followed up the racist smash The Birth of a Nation with a less-successful historical epic called Intolerance. GRIFFITH, THE GISH SISTERS AND THE ORIGIN OF HOLLYWOOD BABYLON : The phrase “Hollywood Babylon” entered the vernacular thanks to D.W. Throughout, we’ll talk about how the seemingly contemporary concept of “fake news” has played a key role in Hollywood’s star-making (and star-destroying) apparatus from the industry’s earliest days, and how such practices mutated through the work of counter-narrators like Anger and beyond.ĭ.W. ![]() This season, we examine some of the stories Anger tells and the way he tells them, and we’ll try to figure out the real story. Considered by many to be the urtext of salacious movieland gossip, Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon has been derided by some readers as a work of dangerous libel for its embellishments and, in some cases, outright fictions about real people and events. ![]()
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