Scandals! Juicy Scandals!

MacNabb, Matt.  Hollywood's Dark History: Silver Screen Scandals.  Yorkshire, Great Britain: Pen
          and Sword History, 2019.  ISBN: 978-1-52674-074-8

Do you enjoy movies?  Do you read People or Entertainment Weekly or similar stories on the web?  Do you enjoy learning the stories of the "real" people who appear larger than life on the silver screen?  And the most important question - do you want to know secrets Hollywood would rather not acknowledge?  If you answered "Yes" to any of these questions, then this book may be for you!

Matt MacNabb in thirteen short chapters and an introduction provides a flashlight on the dark history of thirteen actors and actresses.  In each chapter, the reader gets a brief synopsis of the actor/actress's early life and then NacNabb dives into the various scandals that marks their career, and then finishes with another brief synopsis of the rest of their life and if they have a star.  The book opens with Evelyn Nesbit and closes with Clara Bow.  The chapters in between cover Jean Harlow, Charlie Chaplin, Errol Flynn, Thelma Todd, Mae West, Lana Turner, William Desmond Taylor, Barbara LaMarr, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, and Mabel Normand.

Hollywood's Dark History is a scandal snack book.  The book has a brief bibliography of sources and a few photos, but does not really dig into the scandals.  So if you are looking for a quick read to bring you up to speed on some of the more famous scandals of early Hollywood history, this title would be a decent starting place.