Hollywood's Dark History Silver Screen Scandals

The author didn't unearth formerly unknown secrets in this book, all the scandals can also be found on the Wiki page of the respective actor. BUT the author did make the effort of putting all these together in a book and also adding some background information concerning the childhood and career development of the stars. The chapters to each of the 13 actors are not incredibly long, but it isn't supposed to be a biography! It's reads more like a gossip magazine of the early 20th century - which I actually found quite fascinating. Even though I only knew the names of about half of the VIPs mentioned here, I read every story and every scandal with great interest. However, it took me quite some time to read this book because I constantly had to google the names, look at pictures, read their Wiki entries, click on other names that I came across which led to even more internet pages and pictures. I even watched short YouTube videos of some very old silent movies. (I actually still remember a time (late 80s) when they showed short funny clips by Laurel & Hardy on TV, or other short silent movies, and quite often I would watch them.) There were two things I was a bit surprised about. 1) How common it was at that time to get married and also get a divorce. I always thought that Elizabeth Taylor with her 8 marriages was very outstanding, but there were quite a lot Hollywood stars married 5 times or more, often only for a very short time. Where in todays time you have a boyfriend or girlfriend for a couple of months or even years and then eventually break up and move on, you apparently tied the knot rather fast in the last century. 2) That even 100 years ago, actor and actresses were the highest paid professionals in the US (at least when it came to the top stars). I thought the exorbitant salaries are a sign of our current times. Apparently not! The book makes for an interesting read and is a must for fans of anything connected to Hollywood.