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Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
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In the early 1920s, as Hollywood was emerging as America’s glittering new dream factory, its future was threatened by a string of lurid, headline-grabbing tragedies—including the murder of the handsome, secretly haunted actor and director William Desmond Taylor, a crime that went unsolved for nearly a century. Now, in this fiendishly involving New York Times bestseller—hailed as “a must-read” by Liz Smith—William Mann draws on a rich host of sources, many untapped for decades, to revisit the case of the enigmatic Taylor and the diverse cast that surrounded him—including three loyal ingenues, a grasping stage mother, a devoted valet, a gang of two-bit thugs, the industry’s reluctant new morals czar, and the moguls Adolph Zukor and Marcus Loew, locked in a struggle for control of the exploding industry. Along the way, Mann brings to life Los Angeles in the Roaring Twenties: a sparkling yet schizophrenic town filled with celebrities, party girls and drug dealers—a dangerous place where the powerful could still run afoul of the desperate. A true story re-created with the suspense of a novel, Tinseltown is a thrilling joyride for lovers of both the world of celebrity and the underworld that always lurks beneath.

Author Biography:

William Mann is the author of Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn, How to be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood, Hello, Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisand, Tinseltown: Mruder, Morphine, Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood, and most recently The Wars of the Roosevelts. His biography Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines won the 1999 Lambda Literary Award. He has worked as a freelance journalist and editor, and writes both fiction and nonfiction. He currently splits his time between Provincetown, Massachusetts and Palm Springs, California with his partner, Dr. Timothy Huber.
Release date Australia
November 5th, 2015
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
528
Dimensions
135x203x21
ISBN-13
9780062242198
Product ID
23026622

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