TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sorel,Edward
TI  - Mary Astor's purple diary: the great American sex scandal of 1936 
SN  - 9781631490231
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Liveright Publishing Company, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - Astor, Mary,
KW  - Motion picture actors and actresses
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Sex scandals
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N2  - In 1936 newspapers were ablaze with a scandalous child custody trial taking place in Hollywood and starring the actress Mary Astor; the story pushed Hitler and Franco off the front pages. George S. Kaufman, then the most successful playwright on Broadway and a married man to boot, had been Astor's lover. The scandal revolved around Marys diary, which her ex-husband, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, had found when they were still together. Mary, he claimed, had not only kept a tally of all her extramarital affairs but graded them-- and he already alerted the press in order to obtain a divorce and get custody of their daughter. Sorel provides all the juicy details of this particular slice of Hollywood Babylon, including Mary's life as a child star, and her teenage love affair with the much older John Barrymore
ER  -