The Backstory: Illicit sex in old Hollywood
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
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4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Sex scandals are as constant in Hollywood as gorgeous people, glittering clothes, and scads of money. But while the paparazzi these days use every trick to give us an inside look at the private lives of the stars, they have nothing on the stars of Hollywood’s golden age. Sex, shocking divorces, and even murder—there’s nothing new under the Hollywood sun.
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| 0:00.0 | Hollywood sex scandals are kind of a guilty pleasure. But guess what? They're nothing new. |
| 0:05.0 | Back in the 1950s there was a massively popular leading man who was forced to marry his agent's secretary to hide the fact that he was gay. |
| 0:14.4 | And how about the affair between the 1940s and 50s Oscar winning movie star and her Oscar |
| 0:19.7 | nominated director that led to marriage and then to divorce after he caught her in |
| 0:24.9 | bed with his son who was just 13 years old. Can't make this stuff up. I'm Patty |
| 0:31.2 | Steele. Sex sells especially when it's off screen. Next on the backstory. |
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| 1:07.4 | It sounds like it should be the next season of True Detective or something. |
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