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The Hollywood book of scandals : the shocking, often disgraceful deeds and affairs of more than 100 American movie and TV idols / James Robert Parish.
- Title
- The Hollywood book of scandals : the shocking, often disgraceful deeds and affairs of more than 100 American movie and TV idols / James Robert Parish.
- Author
- Parish, James Robert
- Publication
- New York : McGraw-Hill, c2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PN1998.2 .P366 2004 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- ix,292 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- More than 100 celebrity photographs offer readers an up-close look at the leading players in some of the biggest scandals to ever rock Tinseltown.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Anecdotes
- Authors' autographs (Provenance)
- Anecdotes.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-280) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1900-1929. Rudolph Valentino : Hollywood's greatest lover ; Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle : Tinseltown's big loser ; William Desmond Taylor : the man no one really knew ; Wallace Reid : the tragic matinee idol -- 1930-1949. The Mob : taking on Hollywood ; Clara Bow : when being "It" was not enough ; Jean Harlow and Paul Bern : a deadly marriage ; Thelma Todd : the tragic ice cream blonde ; Loretta Young and Clark Gable : the baby that wasn't ; Joan Crawford : the demon mother ; Errol Flynn : the relentless swordsman ; The blacklist : shame of a nation ; Robert Mitchum : Hollywood's literate rebel -- 1950-1979. Ingrid Bergman : tarnished saint ; Lana Turner : one man too many ; Liberace : playing the Hollywood game ; Elizabeth Taylor vs. Debbie Reynolds : Hollywood's messy circle of love ; Marilyn Monroe : the tragic siren ; Judy Garland : the public meltdown ; Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton : a love not for the ages ; Roman Polanski : the exiled Oscar winner ; Bob Crane : the lustful photographer -- 1980-present. Natalie Wood : tragic goddess ; Rock Hudson : the reluctant good Samaritan ; Saturday Night Live : the curse ; Rob Lowe : surviving his candid camera escapade ; Woody Allen and Mia Farrow : the warring lovebirds ; Heidi Fleiss : ex-madam to the stars ; O.J. Simpson : the trial of the century ; Tupac Shakur : dying too young ; Robert Blake : Baretta on the loose ; Winona Ryder : shopping till it hurts.
- ISBN
- 0071421890 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2003026889
- OCLC
- 53900707
- SCSB-12325311
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library