Book review - "My Hollywood" by Sheilah Graham

Graham was a Hollywood columnist, not as famous as Hedda Hopper or Louella Parsons (she didn't stick her nose in as much) but still widely read. She is probably best known today for her affair with F Scott Fitzgerald which she wrote the book Beloved Infidel (among others). It is surprising this overview of her life is so un-interesting - she certainly had a fascinating childhood, being orphaned and living in great povery. Graham skims over that here, saying it was covered in other books, and concentrates on her adventures in the screen trade. Couldn't she have come up with better gossip than what's here, though? It was written in 1982, many people in it were dead - but obviously not enough. She sort of gives rough sketches about various movie stars and writers (Graham preferred the company of writers). She goes into some detail about the making of the movie of Beloved Infidel, slags off Marilyn Monroe, talks a lot about how pretty she was and how people thought she was pretty, gets misty over Fitzgerald, slags off Hedda Hopper but quite likes Louella Parsons. It's a bit flat.