Synopsis:

Relive 75 years of Hollywood history through the lives and deaths of 31 people who helped to build it, how their lives helped to create the city and the industry, how their tragic or mysterious deaths contributed to its mystique. It is an enduring tribute to the public and private lives of stars who inflamed our curiosity and captured our hearts. William Desmond Taylor, D. W. Griffith, Jim Thorpe, Mack Sennett, Bela Lugosi, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernie Kovacs, Sal Mineo, Dorothy Dandridge, Lenny Bruce, Sam Cooke, Janis Joplin, John Belushi, Marvin Gaye and more.

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Topics/Categories:

Actors, Actresses, Death, Hollywood, Performing Arts

Type of Work:

Book

Publishers:

Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Purchase From:

amazon.com
signed by author

Original Publish Date:

1984-10-01

ISBNs:

067149998X 978-0671499983

Formats:

Paperback