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 #:
000209
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:
August 22, 2024
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SODOM AND GOMORRAH 205 be found such frequent examples of the license and perversion brought to light in the Dave Allen morals case. Mr. Allen, as previously mentioned, he Central Casting Bureau, the principal mart for extra talent. The girls associated with him in the vile scandal were plainly forced ) their trai ions with the executive by economic necessity and pron work, \oth ing less could have Forced them into the bestial intimacies which shocked even blase Hollywood. And as Miss Delong her stifled, this sort of thing is widespread in the film capital. Almost weekly there is a Hollywood scandal olving members of the picture profession Immediately following the Allen mess was the arrest of a Hollywood broker on charges of attacking a beautiful extra girl in her apartment. The broker is replying with a counter-charge of blackmail, probably with good reason. How the girl, with no more work than she had in pictures, could maintain her standard of living, would tax i" the best lawyer to explain. Of cotirse the vast number of sexual crimes and misdemeanors that go on amongst the film colony are nev< to light. In the industry itself a mai as a fool who doesn't use whate\ r influence he has to satisfy him self with the ^ ssible number of beautiful extra women. ( ns in this respect being what they are, no wonder the "regular" prostitutes