
Legends and Lipstick
My Scandalous Stories of Hollywood's Golden Era
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Jennifer Knighton
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Nancy Bacon
You won’t believe your ears! Relentlessly listenable insider stories.
Hollywood love affairs
For the first time ever, Nancy Bacon, famed gossip columnist and editor of Confidential Magazine, is telling her whole story of what it was like to have love affairs with the likes of Paul Newman, Errol Flynn, Tommy Smothers, Rod Taylor, Vince Edwards, and Hugh O’Brian, plus exciting friendships with the Rat Pack, Judy Garland, Bobby Kennedy, Jay Sebring, Elizabeth Taylor, John Wayne, and Marilyn Monroe (to name only a few!).
Beverly Hills, Rome, London, Paris
A young and gorgeous pinup model and starlet before she became a writer, Nancy dove right into the kinds of parties found only in the glittering and glamorous playgrounds of Beverly Hills and Hollywood - and beyond to Rome, London, and Paris. Legends and Lipstick is an uncensored peep inside vintage showbiz, Jayne Mansfield’s horrible descent and death, the Manson family murders, saucy sex romps, exclusive nightclubs and parties, and detailed, firsthand descriptions of where and how celebs played in the old days.
The tarnished side of Tinseltown
Here is the untold story of Nancy’s courageous battles with breast cancer and alcoholism during a time when no one spoke openly about such things. The tarnished side of Tinseltown is the fascinating flipside to a tale that needs to be told. This is Nancy’s inside account from her humble beginnings as one of nine children growing up on a farm in Washington state and what happened after all the fun and games in Hollywood were over - she went through divorce, depression, and a botched radical double mastectomy...and she overcame it all. Her life is one of stunning extremes.
Why Legends and Lipstick is a must-hear
For those who can’t get enough of candid, no-holds-barred memoirs like The Kid Stays in the Picture (Robert Evans), You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again (Julia Phillips), Shirley Jones: A Memoir, Watch Me (Anjelica Houston), and I’m With the Band (Pamela Des Barres) - this audiobook is for you.
Legends and Lipstick goes hand-in-hand with her daughter Staci Layne Wilson’s own tell-all memoir, So L.A. Take a listen to both audiobooks!
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The Golden Era of Hollywood!
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very good
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She did more than merely rub elbows with some movie idols in Hollywood’s Golden Era. Yet, she was discreet, and it’s readily apparent that she deeply cared for them. But, this is no book of Hollywood fluff, for there are some stories which are somewhat scarring to hear (I listened to this memoir via Amazon’s Audible). A major female Hollywood star of the Golden Era who was into brutality comes to mind first, and one of Ms. Bacon’s abusive boyfriends next. Yikes! However, these examples aren’t in the same ballpark with the light BDSM that she experienced later on (but long before E.L. James’s “50 Shades of Grey” made BDSM more mainstream) with a love interest. Ms. Bacon was ahead of her time in some respects, yet she also had a finger on the pulse of the times she experienced. Plus, her life wasn’t filled with just movie stars, as she also spent time with famous men in politics. Impressive is an understatement!
In closing, the expression to ‘pull oneself up by one’s bootstraps’ comes to mind as her beginnings were modest, yet she achieved so much by her own ingenuity and positive outlook. In fact, she was also a magazine editor, co-author of “Whitney Houston: Good Girl/Bad Girl,” and she wrote 10 romance and adventure novels.
Highly recommended!
G.L. Giles
Heart and Humor in Hollywood
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Certainly has a high opinion of herself~
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Interesting Hollywood gossip, lousy narration.
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The title
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1. Trust your instincts when selecting a book. Love a good Hollywood gossip tale as much as the next person, but THIS...no. Just no. I learned a good lesson.
2. How easy would it be to claim that a famous dead person was a "friend." Just parrot what you've read in a few bios or saw on A&E's Biography, personalize it a bit and voila...you, too, can be a BFF and confidant of Marilyn, Judy or ElizabethTaylor. What a slap in the face to these women.
3. I know this woman was a Grade D actress, but had to check IMBD and she wasn't even listed in the credits of the movies she claimed she was in. Plus the writer she claims to have had an European adventure with told Nancy he was still married to Gwen Verdon in 1960 and couldn't get a divorce. Verdon divorced him in the late 40s and was married to Bob Fosse in 1960. Might have been smartest lie that guy ever told a gal. Sheesh.
4. I'm so not a prude, but seriously. So smarmy. I take the lurid descriptions of her liaisons with the now demised male celebrities with whom she allegedly had relationships with a large grain of salt and a great amount of tequila.
5. Best laugh in the book was when the narrator mispronounced the word "coiff." She pronounced it as "coyff." "Oy"as in "Oy vey." Indeed.
Didn't finish this one. Yuck.
What a colossal, tacky waste of time
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Ugh.
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