What could be a juicy, gossip-filled, romp through the bedrooms and sex lives of famous actresses from the age of silent films to the start of the gay rights movement is actually dry as toast. The women focused on include Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Tallulah Bankhead, and others with the main focus on Mercedes De Acosta, who seems to have had relationships with all of them and more. Supposedly the author used old FBI documents, private letters, and other sources to make her case for many of the goings on and the book reads like a dusty old file. The most interesting fact in the book is that Tallulah Bankhead's father was a Congressman and Speaker of the House. A disappointing read.
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