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Seduction: S*x, Lies and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood

Name: Seduction: S*x, Lies and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood
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ISBN: 9780062898210

Longworth, Karina

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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...

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Year:

2022

Publisher:

Custom House

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

0062898213

ISBN 13:

9780062898210