Broadway Babylon

Hadleigh, authority on celebrity gossip, turns to Broadway to examine its juiciest scandals, secrets, flops and feuds. Discerning fact from rumor, quoting hundreds of players, and revealing the stories behind over a century of major headlines. Personalities include Ethel Merman, Tennessee Williams, Tallulah Bankhead, Carol Channing, Jerry Herman, Jerome Robbins, Lucille Ball, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Bette Davis.--From publisher description.