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 #:
000101
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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DOM AND GOMORRAH talent, imagine vshat the chances arc for a girl of poverty. And when you consider that a huge number of the thousands registered at the Central Casting Bureau (whose Former chief executive we shall presently discuss ) have neither money, nor a stage career, nor even a beauty contest record to recommend them, it is easy to see why many of them sin to pay tor a chance at tame and fortune. If they only got their chance, the situation would be a trifle less tragic. One famous red-headed star, now in eclipse, who got her start in the East Coast studios frankly attributed her success to the fact that she was "nice to every Jew on Broadway," her indiscriminate choice of words making a verbatim quotation impossible. A much more tragic case than the usual run is the adventures of a Washington. D. C, beauty contest winner with motion picture producers. The sordid details are almost beyond belief, and were not the conditions in the cinema capital so notoriously immoral, one would be inclined to set the tale down as a melodramatic fiction. However, the case has been published in a liberal magazine, and inasmuch as there has been no refutation from Hollywood one can proceed on the assumption that it is true. The eighteen-year-old contest winner received a trip to Hollywood where she was to be given a screen test — the same old song in the same key.