Popes & the Vatican, Actors & Entertainers, United States, Crime & Criminal Biographies, Espionage, Humor & Entertainment, State & Local, Intelligence & Espionage 

The Cold War and the Golden Age of Hollywood meet in this story of the remarkable career of Boris Morros, film producer and Russian double agent. Boris Morros was a major figure in the 1930s and '40s. The head of music at Paramount, nominated for Academy Awards, he then went on to produce his own films with Laurel and Hardy, Fred Astaire, Henry Fonda, and others. But as J. Edgar Hoover would discover, these successes were a cover for one of the most incredible espionage tales in the history of the Cold War-Boris Morros also worked for Russian intelligence. Morros's assignments took him to the White House, the Vatican, and deep behind the iron curtain. The high-level intel he provided the KGB included military secrets and compromising information on prominent Americans: his friends. But in 1947, Morros flipped. At the height of the McCarthy era, he played a leading role in a deadly tale. Jonathan Gill's 'Hollywood Double Agent' is an extraordinary story about Russian spies at the heart of American culture and politics, and one man caught in the middle of the Cold War. 

Contents:
Prologue: Endgame, January 20, 1957
Enter Boris, 1891-1914
Broken chords, 1914-22
The golden land, 1922-25
The entertainer, 1925-33
Cover stories, 1933-34
Paradise and its discontents, 1934-35
Gateway to Hollywood, 1935-36
A double life, 1936-38
Declaring independence, 1938-42
Turnabout, 1942-43
Chord and discord, 1943-44
Spook's ball, 1944-45
Getting to Carnegie Hall, 1945-47
Double or nothing, 1947
Boris loves money! 1947-48
Pontifex Maximus, 1948-49
Inside the temple, 1949
Believing in tears, 1949-50
My own FBI, 1950-51
Atomic bonds, 1951-52
In chains, 1952-54
The agent in black, 1954-55
A cooked goose, 1955-57
Above the fold, 1957-63