DARK HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD
Book ID/图书代码： 02351515B78734
English Summary/英文概要： ’Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.’ – Marilyn Monroe
In the century since it produced its first feature film, Hollywood has presented itself as the glamorous home to the beautiful and talented. But, since its very creation, there has been a dark side to Tinseltown.
Right from the beginning the Dream Factory created a hothouse of excess – too much money, too much adulation, too much expectation and too much ego. Some actors would trade sex in the, often vain, hope of career advancement, mobsters muscled in on the unions and extorted the studios, while the accountants appear to be among Hollywood’s most creative people, managing to ensure that even the Star Wars films haven’t yet shown a profit. But while stars have always been indulged, once their moment in the limelight has passed, their fall can be cruel.
From the setting up of the studios by the movie moguls to the corporations that run them today, from drug addictions to McCarthy-era witch-hunts to the Mob, Dark History of Hollywood – A Century of Greed, Corruption and Scandal behind the Movies is the story of sex and excess, murder and suicide, ambition and betrayal, and how money can make almost everyone compromise.
Intensively researched and superbly entertaining, Dark History of Hollywood reveals that the stories behind the silver screen are at least as gripping as many of those on it.
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About the Author/作者介绍： A graduate from Edinburgh University and the National Film & Television School, Kieron Connolly has written for the Mail on Sunday and the Daily Mail, and has interviewed film-makers for movieScope Magazine.
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