A Kiss Before Dying
1956
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Apr 7, 2021 · In 1936, Mary Astor, star of The Maltese Falcon (1941), was the center of a Hollywood scandal so big, it knocked news of Hitler off the front page. Her estranged husband stole her private...
Sep 14, 2016 · Inside the Trial of Actress Mary Astor, Old Hollywood’s Juiciest Sex Scandal. In 1936, the star’s dirty laundry—including a steamy affair with Broadway legend George S. Kaufman—was the talk...
— Excerpts published in Kenneth Anger’s HollywoodBabylon, from the diary of actress Mary Astor, whose affair with the playwright and critic George S. Kaufman was exposed during her 1936 custody...
Jan 12, 2017 · Fleeing her miserable West Coast marriage for a New York lark, the famous Astor met the famous Kaufman and kept an increasingly detailed diary about their clandestine encounters.
Jul 5, 2018 · Many movie lovers know actress Mary Astor for her role in the 1941 Warner Bros. film, "The Maltese Falcon," but even those who have followed her work may not know the details of the scandal...
Nov 27, 2016 · In “The Purple Diaries: Mary Astor and the Most Sensational Hollywood Scandal of the 1930s” (Diversion Publishing), film expert Joseph Egan revisits a story so tantalizing to the press at the...
In 1936, Astor's career was nearly destroyed by scandal. She had an affair with playwright George S. Kaufman and was branded an adulterous wife by her former husband during a custody fight over their daughter.
