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Author's website:
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ON MARCH 19, 2013, this book became AMAZON BESTSELLER. In addition, it got the following ranks, just 24 hours after it was released!
- #16 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Arts & Photography > Performing Arts
- #18 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Arts & Photography > Theater > Acting & Auditioning
- #28 in Books > Business & Investing > Industries & Professions > Performing Arts
This is an explosive book.
It shows you the decadence and repulsive life of Hollywood's greatest stars, and how they reached stardom.
They lived for fame and sex...they ate sex...they smelled sex, and they died from sex!
Hollywood is a dirty and disgusting milieu!
The "SEWING CIRCLE" is a term referring to a secret group of lesbians and bisexual actresses who met at certain places to engage into intimate and sexual relationships.
Many actresses of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s participated in the "sewing circles." The term was coined by actress Alla Nazimova.
Those actresses lived double lives.
It was during this particular era of Hollywood that the 'lavender marriages' became known and quite common; they gave the appearance of people and stars being legally and "normally" married, while in real life, they lived separately and engaged into sexual relationships with the same sex.
"THE CASTING COUCH" is a Hollywood revered institution. And simply put, "The casting couch" is the place or the couch where a star or an aspiring actress gives away her body to get a contract.
In other words, the star and the starlet had to sleep with the director and/or the producer, on their couch, to be hired!
Olive Thomas wanted to become a star at all costs.
So she walked straight forward to Lewis J. Selznick couch and said: "So this is where I get laid?" A few hours later, she got her first acting contract, and Selznick made her the star of "Prudence on Broadway", and "The Follies Girl".
Vivien Leigh, star of "Gone with the Wind", said: "I am an actress, a great actress. Great actresses have lovers, why not? I have a husband and I have lovers, like Sarah Bernhardt."
Anita Loos wrote: "To place in the limelight a great number of people (actresses and actors) who ordinarily would be chambermaids and chauffeurs, and give them unlimited power and wealth, is bound to produce disastrous results."
(A. Loos, April 26, 1888 - August 18, 1981. She was an American screenwriter, playwright and author.)
Jean Gabin: "98% of the divas of Hollywood were "baptized" in the casting couch."
Harry Cohn: "Who do you think your wife is fuc...ng tonight?" According to authors Robin Cross and John Marriott, at press conferences to announce a new film, Harry Cohn (Columbia's Picture Boss) constantly referred to the male and female leads as "The prick and the cunt."
Plenty of written evidence quotes Cohn saying, "This time the prick will be played by...and the cunt by..."
Louis B. Mayer once said to a star "Just sit there, look beautiful, and stupid, and the camera will take care of the rest."
Capucine: "They fu...ed each other so much...women began to smell semen, and men perfume."
Louis B. Mayer: "A woman's ass is for her husband, not theatergoers...but now then, everything goes!"
Clark Gable: "Give those babes (Hollywood's actresses) the freedom and equality they are screaming for...and the first thing they will do...spread their legs."
Bette Davis said: "Hollywood is a mobile bordello."
It shows you the decadence and repulsive life of Hollywood's greatest stars, and how they reached stardom.
They lived for fame and sex...they ate sex...they smelled sex, and they died from sex!
Hollywood is a dirty and disgusting milieu!
The "SEWING CIRCLE" is a term referring to a secret group of lesbians and bisexual actresses who met at certain places to engage into intimate and sexual relationships.
Many actresses of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s participated in the "sewing circles." The term was coined by actress Alla Nazimova.
Those actresses lived double lives.
It was during this particular era of Hollywood that the 'lavender marriages' became known and quite common; they gave the appearance of people and stars being legally and "normally" married, while in real life, they lived separately and engaged into sexual relationships with the same sex.
"THE CASTING COUCH" is a Hollywood revered institution. And simply put, "The casting couch" is the place or the couch where a star or an aspiring actress gives away her body to get a contract.
In other words, the star and the starlet had to sleep with the director and/or the producer, on their couch, to be hired!
Olive Thomas wanted to become a star at all costs.
So she walked straight forward to Lewis J. Selznick couch and said: "So this is where I get laid?" A few hours later, she got her first acting contract, and Selznick made her the star of "Prudence on Broadway", and "The Follies Girl".
Vivien Leigh, star of "Gone with the Wind", said: "I am an actress, a great actress. Great actresses have lovers, why not? I have a husband and I have lovers, like Sarah Bernhardt."
Anita Loos wrote: "To place in the limelight a great number of people (actresses and actors) who ordinarily would be chambermaids and chauffeurs, and give them unlimited power and wealth, is bound to produce disastrous results."
(A. Loos, April 26, 1888 - August 18, 1981. She was an American screenwriter, playwright and author.)
Jean Gabin: "98% of the divas of Hollywood were "baptized" in the casting couch."
Harry Cohn: "Who do you think your wife is fuc...ng tonight?" According to authors Robin Cross and John Marriott, at press conferences to announce a new film, Harry Cohn (Columbia's Picture Boss) constantly referred to the male and female leads as "The prick and the cunt."
Plenty of written evidence quotes Cohn saying, "This time the prick will be played by...and the cunt by..."
Louis B. Mayer once said to a star "Just sit there, look beautiful, and stupid, and the camera will take care of the rest."
Capucine: "They fu...ed each other so much...women began to smell semen, and men perfume."
Louis B. Mayer: "A woman's ass is for her husband, not theatergoers...but now then, everything goes!"
Clark Gable: "Give those babes (Hollywood's actresses) the freedom and equality they are screaming for...and the first thing they will do...spread their legs."
Bette Davis said: "Hollywood is a mobile bordello."
"Remember this, never forget it, you're just a piece of meat."- 1950's studio boss Harry Cohn, talking to actress Kim Novak.
