Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood (1935)

Record Details:

Title:
Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood
Date:
1935
Publisher:
Los Angeles : End Poverty League
Volume:
Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood
Leaf #:
00096
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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92 SODOM AND GOMORRAH rigidly enforced, what a ludicrous picture the depleted ranks of executives would make ! The worst of it is, a great many girls who compromise themselves on the strength of promises of employment are cruelly disappointed. More often than not the creatures who promise this, that, and the other to the movie-struck girls are in no position to keep their promises, even if they were sincere in wanting to. The girls, of course, do not know this, and when some assistant director promises to raise them to stardom, they bravely submit to his demands no matter how physically repulsive he is, simply regarding their action as a sacrifice one must make to get along. Strait-laced Puritans should remember, before they condemn girls too severely for slipping, that many of them do so with the greatest reluctance, feeling that it is absolutely imperative if they are ever to get into pictures. Their crime is stupidity rather than deliberate immorality. It should be kept in mind that most of these girls are very young — so many of them are only eighteen or nineteen — and are not the hardened, sophisticated things they later become. If they were a little older and more experienced, or if they were a little shrewder, they would never give in until they got something more definite than a worthless promise from an equally worthless motion picture gentleman. They would be just as immoral, per