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Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood by William J. Mann (Hardcover, 2014)

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Who killed Billy Taylor, one of Hollywood's most beloved men For nearly a century, no one has known. Until now. In the early 1920s, millions of Americans flocked to movie palaces every year to see their favorite stars on the silver screen. Never before had a popular art so captured the public's imagination, nor had a medium ever possessed such power to influence. But Hollywood's glittering ascendancy was threatened by a string of lurid, headline-grabbing tragedies, including the murder of William Desmond Taylor, the handsome and popular president of the Motion Picture Directors Association-a legendary crime that has remained unsolved since 1922. Now, in this fiendishly involving narrative, bestselling Hollywood chronicler William Mann draws on a rich host of sources, many untapped for decades, to reopen the case of the upstanding yet enigmatic Taylor and the diverse cast that surrounded him-including three loyal ingenues, a grasping stage mother, a devoted valet, a gang of two-bit thugs, the industry's reluctant new morals czar, and the moguls Adolph Zukor and Marcus Loew, locked in a struggle for control of the exploding industry. Along the way, Mann brings to life Los Angeles in the Roaring Twenties: a sparkling yet schizophrenic town filled with party girls and drug dealers, newly minted legends and starlets already past their prime, a dangerous place where the powerful could still run afoul of the desperate. A true story re-created with the thrilling suspense of a novel, Tinseltown is the work of a master craftsman at the peak of his powers.

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HarperCollins INC International Concepts
ISBN-13
9780062242167
eBay Product ID (ePID)
209471212

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Book Title
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
Author
William J. Mann
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
True Crime
Publication Year
2014
Number of Pages
480 Pages

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229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
753g

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William J. Mann
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood by William J. Mann (Hardcover, 2014)

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