Elsa Maxwell’s Café Society
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Maxwell, Elsa. Elsa Maxwell’s Café Society, Vol. 1, No. 1. Periodical. 1953. Softcover in very good condition.
This one-issue magazine was in the style of Confidential but focused less on Hollywood and more on international society, with Elsa Maxwell’s unique, insider perspective (though there were undoubtedly ghostwriters). Maxwell’s biographer Sam Staggs called it “a foreshadowing of Vanity Fair.” It contains eleven image-filled stories, including an expose on the unhappy marriages of Charlie Chaplin, a report on the tragic lives of former number one debutantes, and a look into the many marriages of the three Gabor sisters.
“If you’re not too busy to be bored, there’s always something to bore you. So our pitfall symposium continues with ‘bored wives’ of Hollywood and café society.”
--Elsa Maxwell
This one-issue magazine was in the style of Confidential but focused less on Hollywood and more on international society, with Elsa Maxwell’s unique, insider perspective (though there were undoubtedly ghostwriters). Maxwell’s biographer Sam Staggs called it “a foreshadowing of Vanity Fair.” It contains eleven image-filled stories, including an expose on the unhappy marriages of Charlie Chaplin, a report on the tragic lives of former number one debutantes, and a look into the many marriages of the three Gabor sisters.
“If you’re not too busy to be bored, there’s always something to bore you. So our pitfall symposium continues with ‘bored wives’ of Hollywood and café society.”
--Elsa Maxwell
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