Tinseltown : murder, morphine, and madness at the dawn of Hollywood
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New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2014?].
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Central - Adult Nonfiction
364.1523 MANN
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Published
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2014?].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xi, 463 pages, [32] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-463).
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The Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the modern film industry. By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America's new favorite pastime, and one of the nation's largest industries. Never before had a medium possessed such power to influence. Yet Hollywood's glittering ascendency was threatened by a string of headline-grabbing tragedies-including the murder of William Desmond Taylor, the popular president of the Motion Picture Directors Association, a legendary crime that has remained unsolved until now. In a fiendishly involving narrative, bestselling Hollywood chronicler William J. Mann draws on a rich host of sources, including recently released FBI files, to unpack the story of the enigmatic Taylor and the diverse cast that surrounded him-including three beautiful, ambitious actresses; a grasping stage mother; a devoted valet; and a gang of two-bit thugs, any of whom might have fired the fatal bullet. And overseeing this entire landscape of intrigue was Adolph Zukor, the brilliant and ruthless founder of Paramount, locked in a struggle for control of the industry and desperate to conceal the truth about the crime. Along the way, Mann brings to life Los Angeles in the Roaring Twenties: a sparkling yet schizophrenic town filled with party girls, drug dealers, religious zealots, newly-minted legends and starlets already past their prime-a dangerous place where the powerful could still run afoul of the desperate. A true story recreated with the suspense of a novel, Tinseltown is the work of a storyteller at the peak of his powers-and the solution to a crime that has stumped detectives and historians for nearly a century.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Mann, W. J. (2014). Tinseltown: murder, morphine, and madness at the dawn of Hollywood (First edition.). Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Mann, William J. 2014. Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness At the Dawn of Hollywood. Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Mann, William J. Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness At the Dawn of Hollywood Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2014.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Mann, William J. Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness At the Dawn of Hollywood First edition., Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2014.
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