And before the existence of societal scourges like People, TMZ, and Us Weekly, it was much easier for famous people to get away with sordid deeds" ( Medium). Some critics have cast doubt on claims made in the book, but who are they to say they know better? They weren't there.
The sequel to Anger's controversial and oft-banned Hollywood Babylon (1962), Hollywood Babylon II (1984) expanded on "detailed hushed celebrity scandals from the silent-film era through the late 60s. With affection, Kenneth," with a signed autograph letter from Anger to Druks thanking her for a book by her friend, Anaïs Nin, and complimenting Druks' paintings and with an additional signed autograph letter from Druks thanking Anger for his book and thanking him again for letting her use two minutes from his short film "Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome" for a documentary. $1500.įirst edition of experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger's salacious guide to Hollywood, chronicling real and imagined scandals involving actors from the 1920s to the 1970s, inscribed on the half title to his friend, California painter and gadabout Renate Druks: "For Renate ever the Enchantress. Large octavo, original half cream cloth, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket.
"THERE'S MY HECATE EYE, THE BEST-KEPT SECRET": FIRST EDITION OF HOLLYWOOD BABYLON II, INSCRIBED BY KENNETH ANGER TO HIS FRIEND, TRENDSETTING CALIFORNIA PAINTER RENATE DRUKS, WITH SIGNED AUTOGRAPH LETTERS FROM ANGER TO DRUKS AND FROM DRUKS TO ANGER MENTIONING DRUKS' PAINTING, ANGER'S FILMS, AND THEIR MUTUAL FRIEND, ANAÏS NINĪNGER, Kenneth.
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