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Mary Astor's Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936
By Sorel, Edward
- ISBN
- 9781631490231 9781631490248
- Publisher
- Liveright: Norton
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Reviewed on September 1, 2016 | Arts and Humanities
Illustrator/cartoonist/caricaturist Sorel's new book is part memoir, part Tinseltown tell-all, part graphic novel, and part love letter to American actress Mary Astor (1906–87), whose most famous role was alongside Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon. Her greatest offscreen role was as sexual adventuress, when her husband discovered her "purple diary" (actually, Sorel tells us, the ink was brown) going into great detail about her affair with New Yor...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
