Seduction : sex, lies, and stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood

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Seduction : sex, lies, and stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood

Title remainder

sex, lies, and stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood

Statement of responsibility

Karina Longworth

Title variation

Seduction

Title variation remainder

sex, lies, and stardom in Howard Hughess Hollywood

Creator

• trueLongworth, Karina, 1980-

Author

• trueLongworth, Karina, 1980-

Subject

• trueActors and actresses
• Biographies
• trueFilm actors and actresses
• trueFilm industry and trade
• trueFilm producers and directors
• trueFilms
• Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History
• trueHollywood, California -- History -- 20th century
• Hughes, Howard, 1905-1976 -- Relations with women
• Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography
• Motion picture industry -- California | Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
• Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography
• trueSexual harassment
• trueSexuality and power (Social sciences)

Genre

• trueBiography

Language

eng

Summary

In this riveting popular history, the creator of You Must Remember This probes the inner workings of Hollywood's glamorous golden age through the stories of some of the dozens of actresses pursued by Howard Hughes, to reveal how the millionaire mogul's obsessions with sex, power and publicity trapped, abused, or benefitted women who dreamt of screen stardom. In recent months, the media has reported on scores of entertainment figures who used their power and money in Hollywood to sexually harass and coerce some of the most talented women in cinema and television. But as Karina Longworth reminds us, long before the Harvey Weinsteins there was Howard Hughes-the Texas millionaire, pilot, and filmmaker whose reputation as a cinematic provocateur was matched only by that as a prolific womanizer. His supposed conquests between his first divorce in the late 1920s and his marriage to actress Jean Peters in 1957 included many of Hollywood's most famous actresses, among them Billie Dove, Katharine Hepburn, Ava Gardner, and Lana Turner. From promoting bombshells like Jean Harlow and Jane Russell to his contentious battles with the censors, Hughes-perhaps more than any other filmmaker of his era-commoditized male desire as he objectified and sexualized women. Yet there were also numerous women pulled into Hughes's grasp who never made it to the screen, sometimes virtually imprisoned by an increasingly paranoid and disturbed Hughes, who retained multitudes of private investigators, security personnel, and informers to make certain these actresses would not escape his clutches

Tone

• trueSobering

Writing style

• trueConversational

Dewey number

338.7/67092

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• filmographies