Hollywood Horrors: Murders, Scandals, and Cover-Ups from Tinseltown
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1493060074
ISBN 13
9781493060078
Category
Hollywood History
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Publication Year
2021
Publisher
Pages
312
Subject
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History. Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History. Scandals -- California -- Los Angeles -- History. Crime -- California -- Los Angeles -- History. Crime
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Abstract
Hollywood Horrors shares known and lesser-known stories from Hollywood such as the Black Dahlia murder, Roscoe "Fatty' Arbuckle's trial for the murder of Virginia Rappe, Johnny Stompanato's murder and more. It features unforgettable stories from the early days of Hollywood through the 1950s that fall under Murders, Scandals, and Cover-Ups.
Description
Contents: Introduction. Halcyon : origins of cinema --
Harbinger : scandals of the silent era --
Dead on arrival : Thomas Ince's birthday party --
Blood and oil : the trouble at Greystone --
The bombshell in Benedict Canyon : Jean Harlow and Paul Bern --
An aside : the production code --
The ruse : Loretta Young and Judy Lewis --
Ice cream blonde : Thelma Todd's last night yout --
Nightclubbing : the battle for Sunset Strip --
Hollywood before #MeToo : Errol Flynn's statutory rape trial --
The lost girl : Elizabeth Short's Hollywood --
The madam : Brenda Allen and her girls --
Stoned : Robert Mitchum's Laurel Canyon raid --
The ice queen's daughter : Lana Turner, Cheryl Crane, and Johnny Stompanato --
Elizabeth Taylor : Love, loss, and lust for life.
Harbinger : scandals of the silent era --
Dead on arrival : Thomas Ince's birthday party --
Blood and oil : the trouble at Greystone --
The bombshell in Benedict Canyon : Jean Harlow and Paul Bern --
An aside : the production code --
The ruse : Loretta Young and Judy Lewis --
Ice cream blonde : Thelma Todd's last night yout --
Nightclubbing : the battle for Sunset Strip --
Hollywood before #MeToo : Errol Flynn's statutory rape trial --
The lost girl : Elizabeth Short's Hollywood --
The madam : Brenda Allen and her girls --
Stoned : Robert Mitchum's Laurel Canyon raid --
The ice queen's daughter : Lana Turner, Cheryl Crane, and Johnny Stompanato --
Elizabeth Taylor : Love, loss, and lust for life.
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