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 #:
000100
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
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Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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96 SODOM AND OOMORRAH matic critics, including one writing then for the New York Times, that she possessed an unusual amount of talent. She was not an amateur in the ordinary sense of the word, for besides having been trained in drama, she had to her credit several performances in plays produced on New York and Philadelphia stages. She had every legitimate right to be optimistic about her future in Hollywood, for she, like everyone else, had read of the pleas from Hollywood producers for new talent. She could not even get a test. Although she had plenty of money and did not have the worry of starving to death, a consolation which most aspiring actors and actresses are deprived of, she could get absolutely nowhere. At first shocked when a certain executive suggested how she might get started, she at last made up her mind that if it were necessary to do so in order to get a foothold, she would. She surrendered first to this one, and then to that one, and finally to the other, but for all the good it did her she might as well have conserved her virtue. Because she lacked either the ruthlessness or the cleverness to be a successful blackmailer, she failed to hold her lovers to their promises. Sadly disillusioned, she returned to Park Avenue. Her comment on the situation was simply, ''You're damned if you do, and damned if you don't." If this is the difficulty experienced by a girl with plenty of money and a great deal of proven