Tinseltown : murder, morphine, and madness at the dawn of Hollywood

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Tinseltown : murder, morphine, and madness at the dawn of Hollywood

Title remainder

murder, morphine, and madness at the dawn of Hollywood

Statement of responsibility

William J. Mann

Title variation

Tinsel Town

Creator

• trueMann, William J

Author

• trueMann, William J

Subject

• Motion picture actors and actresses -- Biography
• Motion picture producers and directors -- Biography
• Motion picture producers and directors -- Crimes against -- United States
• Murder -- Investigation -- California | Los Angeles -- Case studies
• Nonfiction
• Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- California | Los Angeles -- Case studies
• Taylor, William Desmond, 1877-1922 -- Friends and associates
• Taylor, William Desmond, 1877-1922 -- Death and burial
• Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History -- 20th century

Genre

• trueCase studies
• trueBiography

Language

eng

Summary

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

Dewey number

364.1523

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography