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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100688175856
ISBN-139780688175856
eBay Product ID (ePID)511060
Product Key Features
Book TitleOpen Secret : Gay Hollywood--1928-2000
Number of Pages416 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2000
TopicUnited States / 20th Century, Sexuality, General, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Film / History & Criticism
IllustratorYes
GenrePerforming Arts, Health & Fitness, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorDavid Ehrenstein
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight12.3 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN00-697965
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal791.43/028/086640973
SynopsisRevised and updated with a new Epilogue, this definitive history of homosexuality in Tinseltown brings readers up to speed on what has happened to the key players in gay Hollywood in the past two years. of photos., Part social history and part exposé, this revealing, entertaining, and provocative book spans nearly seventy years as it explores the lives and careers of some of the silver screen's foremost gays and lesbians and the effect of their high-profile lifestyles on the general public. From Charles Laughton and Greta Garbo to Nathan Lane and Ellen DeGeneres, David Ehrenstein traces the gradual transformation of Hollywood from a time when it was box-office poison to be publicly gay to the modern era when many top entertainment figures are celebrating their gay sexuality--and are in turn celebrated for it. Updated, Open Secret reveals what has happened to the key players in gay Hollywood since the original hardcover publication., Part social history and part expos , this revealing, entertaining, and provocative book spans nearly seventy years as it explores the lives and careers of some of the silver screen's foremost gays and lesbians and the effect of their high-profile lifestyles on the general public. From Charles Laughton and Greta Garbo to Nathan Lane and Ellen DeGeneres, David Ehrenstein traces the gradual transformation of Hollywood from a time when it was box-office poison to be publicly gay to the modern era when many top entertainment figures are celebrating their gay sexuality--and are in turn celebrated for it. Updated, Open Secret reveals what has happened to the key players in gay Hollywood since the original hardcover publication.
Looking for Hollywood's Gay History. Here she blows!
I'm still reading the book but I am finding it interesting and very well written. This author uses big words and everything. I had to look a couple of the words up.
should be called, the long, boring history of gay hollywood
You'd think with this kind of subject material it would be an interesting book, but it's not. It's too "wordy" and I basically skimmed through the whole book.