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  • Legends and Lipstick

  • My Scandalous Stories of Hollywood's Golden Era
  • By: Nancy Bacon
  • Narrated by: Jennifer Knighton
  • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
  • 3.0 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Legends and Lipstick

By: Nancy Bacon
Narrated by: Jennifer Knighton
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Summary

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!

©2017 Staci L. Wilson (P)2018 Staci L. Wilson
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DREADFUL on so many levels!

Basically, this book is just a failed actress boasting about the celebs shes slept with in detail that reads like cheesy Mills and Boone romance! The writing is truly awful...I mean CRINGE LEVEL AWFUL! Full of super cheesy cliches! It makes 50 Shades seem highbrow, I kid you NOT! I couldn't punish myself any longer and admittedly QUIT but unless it took a massive turn for the better (as in, the author being replaced by a proper writer and an entire new storyline) I feel justified that I heard enough to review it. I only gave this 1 star because 0 wasnt an option!

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Absolutely shocking.

I had to laugh when Nancy wondered why Paul Newman was treating her like a prostitute,and not leaving Joanna,Well I ask you ?..but that was
then, and now,she is older and much
much wiser...all in all very enlightening,and entertaining.

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Not my cup of tea

I have no idea why I downloaded this book, no idea of who Nancy Bacon is even. The book is more usually about people I have never heard of and I found it a depressing little book, although, I confess, I have skipped the majority.

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