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The First Scandal That Ever Shook Hollywood: The Mysterious Death Of Virginia Rappe
Oxygen via Yahoo News· 12 months agoVirginia Rappe was a silent film actress who had a prominent role in Paradise Garden in 1917 — but...
Was 1920s Hollywood Really as Decadent and Debauched as It Looks in ‘Babylon’?
Variety via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDamien Chazelle’s “Babylon” captures 1920s Hollywood in all its decadence, debauchery and excess....
Review: The silent film era roars again in 'Babylon'
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIt’s probably true that even avid moviegoers have increasingly drifted away from the films of what Brownlow called, with good reason, “the richest in...
Sex in Cinema: The Hays Code, Censorship, and Film’s First Culture War
Consequence of Sound via Yahoo News· 6 months agoHow Will Hays turned a movie trade association into a conservative check on liberal Hollywood. Sex...
Was This Hollywood’s Worst Year Ever?
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News· 5 months agoA favorite parlor game for film buffs is to pick Hollywood’s greatest year and then argue. The obvious answer — 1939, the certified Golden Year — always...