Like Venus Fading

A great rollercoaster rags-to-riches-to-rags tale about the first black Hollywood sex goddess.Like Elvis, like Marilyn, the first black film superstar didn’t die tragically, but lives among us still, changed out of all recognition…Propelled out of Depression-era poverty by the ambition of her mother and her own talents, young Irene O’Brien finds she attracts attention easily – both welcome (she is...