Tantalizing tales about Hollywood's most demanding leading ladies

Which slapstick redhead reduced Joan "Mommie Dearest" Crawford to tears? What tragic songbird secretly carried vodka to her ambulance as she was carted off on a stretcher? Can you name the blond prima donna who went on a shopping spree so wild that she bought a whole town? These are but a few of the high jinks of Hollywood's favorite "It Girls," whose overdrive to personal and career excess has earned them the rank of diva.

From Marilyn Monroe to Madonna, Zsa Zsa Gabor to J. Lo, substance-abusing Drew Barrymore to her regal but tipsy great-aunt Ethel, Hollywood chronicler James Robert Parish reveals all the exciting details in Hollywood Divas. This photo-filled volume delivers an eye-popping, backstage peek into the wild private lives and cutthroat careers of 70 rampaging bad girls of Hollywood, assembled here for the first time and guaranteed to titillate you with shocking tales of:

• Unrestrained lust
• Drug addiction
• Alcoholism
• Hushed-up pregnancies
• Out-of-control tantrums
• And just plain bratty and brazen behavior

A must-have for every pop-culture fanatic, Hollywood Divas promises to tantalize you with juicy tidbits and saucy scandals that earned each of these devilish darlings the title of Diva.