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Mary Astor's Purple Diary : The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936, Hardback Book

Mary Astor's Purple Diary : The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936 Hardback

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In 1965, the young illustrator Edward Sorel discovered a treasure in his railroad flat on Manhattan's Upper East Side: issues of the New York Daily News and Daily Mirror from 1936 ablaze with a trial taking place in Hollywood.

Mary Astor was enough of a star to make headlines when it came out that George S.

Kaufman, then the most successful playwright on Broadway and a married man, had been her lover.

The scandal revolved around Mary's diary which her ex-husband had found.

Its contents forced her to give up custody of their daughter in order to obtain a divorce.

Mary, he claimed, had not only kept a tally of all her extramarital affairs but graded them-and he had alerted the press.

Mary Astor's Purple Diary narrates and illustrates the travails of the Oscar-winning actress alongside Sorel's own story of discovering an unlikely muse.

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