Libby Holman Bio 20s Broadway Singer Husband Murder? Suicide? Monty Clift HC/DJ

Description: Dreams That Money Can Buy - The Tragic Life of Libby Holman by Jon Bradshaw copyright 1985 1st edition. This hardcover book with dustjacket is in very good condition - book has no torn or missing pages nor writing in the book - dustjacket is in very good condition in protective cover Apparently Libby Holman was well-known and quite scandalous in her day. When still very young, she was a flamboyant stage star, singer and vamp who was pursued by all manner of rich "stage door johnnies", and had both a male heir to the Reynolds tobacco fortune and a female heiress who dresses as a man in love with her. She marries the young male heir (who flies a plane and has a flair for suicidal melodrama), goes to live in his fancy Southern mansion out in the middle of nowhere, and bears a son. When her wealthy young husband turns up dead after a wild houseparty, Libby and his best friend - who is supposedly also Libby's lover - are indicted for his murder and a major scandal ensues. Finally cleared (but maybe only due to lack of evidence), Libby goes off to raise her son with her cross-dressing girlfriend. The book up to this point would make a wonderful Southern Gothic miniseries. Later on, Libby develops an interracial blues act with an African-American musical accompanist and takes her show on the road, challenging the segregation of the time. She also spends a lot of time hanging out with Tallulah Bankhead and dating handsome Hollywood hunks including Montgomery Clift, but unfortunately most if not all of the fellows she gets involved with meet some sad end, which starts to wear on her after a while and make her wonder if she's bad luck. For the big finish, her son, now college-aged decides to climb a mountain without the proper equipment and unsurprisingly falls off and dies, putting the finishing touch on his mother's transformation into a tragic figure. In a final ironic twist, when Libby herself is found dead in the late 60s, questions remain about whether her death is suicide or murder, just as those same questions arose with respect to her dead first husband. Also George Nader SIGNED, Doris Day, Jayne Mansfield, Louise Brooks, Joan Crawford, Jeff Chandler, Clayton Moore - Lone Ranger SIGNED, Amanda Blake, Adam West SIGNED, Burt Ward, Steve Reeves SIGNED and other Hollywood Bios & Photos!! Thanks for looking and happy bidding Combine postage offered

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