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 #:
000143
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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SODOM AND GOMORRAH 139 Imost every moment of their existence, they cannot help but feel the precarious situation that confronts them N wonder they drink the ath or seek esca] m their worries and artificial living through the avenue ni drugs. I? is Ear from pleasant to spend one's life doing things and saying things that are unnatural, and in many cases enti* ''ign. As one able critic has said of Hollywood. "Before the camera is the only time when cinema actors are not acting." Little Nell Chapman plays the role o\ a sv virgin girl on en. Because she has blond, wavy hair atid a cherubic face, 'he studio discovered that she over big'' in the role of an innocent. Thereafter she is Pollyanna, without sin and without shan v it may well be that Miss Chapman came from Cicero, Illinois. Her father may be serving a jail sentence for any or all of the felonies. She may have obtained her "dramatic" experience in Chicago burlesque, several screen stars have. These facts be hardly consistent with the person her public believes she is. it is necessary that they be suppressed. Lib r liquor must never become a public fact. She joins the Women's Christian Temperance Union and all the other morals organizat although heartily del them all as insufferable bus bodies. She has to be careful of her language.