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Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
by Mann, William J
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine Condition/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0062242164
- ISBN 13
- 9780062242167
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About This Item
Harper Collins, New York, 2014. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. Dust Jacket is in fine condition without tears or chips or other damage. Quantity Available: 1. Category: True Crime; Film, Radio & Television. ISBN/EAN: 9780062242167. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 21303. . 9780062242167
Reviews
On Nov 12 2014, a reader said:
Love the flickers? Know that Roscoe Arbuckle hated being called "Fatty"? Can you name the three men who formed MGM? Well, then this is the book for you, the true cinephile.
By now, we movie fans all know that the early years of Hollywood were as scandal rocked as they are today. Sex and drugs have always been part of the Hollywood lifestyle.
In Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood, William J. Mann has written a fast-paced murder mystery that reads like fiction but is all fact.
In the book, Mann writes about all the heavyweight studio bosses--Zukor, Loew, the three men/companies that formed MGM; William Hayes, who, it turns out, was a nice guy and had no plans of gutting movies with racy themes; of course Mabel Normand and Mr. Arbuckle are here and several other big stars of the silent era. Want handsome? Look up Wallace Reid, well-known morphine addict but still beloved by audiences. At the heart of the book is the story of the unsolved mystery of who murdered elegant actor/director William Desmond Taylor--a murder that STILL has not been formally solved, although this book provides plenty of proof of "who (might have) dunnit."
Three actresses, Mable Normand, Mary Miles Minter and Margaret Gibson (who changed her name to Patricia Palmer to hide an arrest for prostitution), are the leading ladies who form the nucleus of the story and had all been considered as Taylor's murderer.
If Hollywood Babylon and Day of the Locust are on your bookshelf, Tinseltown belongs right next to them.
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- Bookseller
- ArchersBooks.com (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21303
- Title
- Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
- Author
- Mann, William J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0062242164
- ISBN 13
- 9780062242167
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2014
- Keywords
- BZDB185 True Crime; Film, Radio & Television. EAN: 9780062242167 Mann, William J. Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
- Bookseller catalogs
- true crime;
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I have been a bookseller since 1986 and closed my shop in 2001 to concentrate on mail order and do some writing. My stock includes a large selection of books on Baseball, True Crime, Ohioana, Botany, Literature, and Music. And I've cowritten two books: Catching Dreams: My Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues with Frazier Robinson (1999) and Jim Tully: American Writer, Irish Rover, Hollywood Brawler with Mark Dawidziak (2011, foreword by Ken Burns). Mark Dawidziak and I have also written introductions to six reissues of Tully's books: Circus Parade (foreword by Harvey Pekar), Shanty Irish (foreword by John Sayles), The Bruiser (foreword by Gerald Early), Blood on the Moon, Shadows of Men, and Tully's breakthrough book, Beggars of Life.
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