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Van Landingham, Andrea.
Subjects
Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History.
Scandals -- California -- Los Angeles -- History.
Crime -- California -- Los Angeles -- History.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Social life and customs.
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Van Landingham, Andrea.
Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History.
Scandals -- California -- Los Angeles -- History.
Crime -- California -- Los Angeles -- History.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Social life and customs.
MARC Display
Hollywood
horrors
:
murders
,
scandals
, and
cover-ups
from
Tinseltown
/ Andrea Van Landingham.
by
Van Landingham, Andrea.
Lyons Press, 2022.
Call #:
384.809794 V259h
Subjects
Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History.
Scandals
-- California -- Los Angeles -- History.
Crime -- California -- Los Angeles -- History.
Hollywood
(Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History.
Hollywood
(Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Social life and customs.
ISBN:
9781493060078 (pbk)
Description:
xii, 289 p., 10 unnumbered p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"The name '
Hollywood
' conjures up fantastical images of bright lights, glamorous dreams, and impossible riches. From its humble beginnings as a ranch sprawling northwest of Los Angeles in the late 1800s,
Hollywood
has spanned lifetimes as a factory of dreams, a dazzling place where all things are possible. This collection of stories takes you on a journey into the golden age, illuminating the space between the airy fantasy and the gritty reality of life in
Hollywood
. In a transient city where nothing lasts, thousands of stories have taken place in their time here. From the offscreen debauchery of the silent era, to countless dramatic and mysterious deaths, to the sinister past lives of world-famous LA landmarks, vestiges of
Hollywood
's checkered past can still be found all over the city. With generations of
Tinseltown
's luminaries living and working under the sunny guise of paradisal prosperity, their real stories reveal the sordid underbelly lurking directly beneath the surface. A dangerous collusion between the studios, the press, the mob, and the LAPD forms an impenetrable behind-the-scenes network of corruption, power and control, where the truth is always up for sale. A network in which the most glamorous and well-known figures are merely players in this elaborate charade. It's magical and gritty, it's ugly and dirty, it's the land of dreams...it's
Hollywood
."--Publisher.
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