In This Riveting Popular History, The Creator Of You Must Remember This Probes The Inner Workings Of Hollywoodâs Glamorous Golden Age Through The Stories Of Some Of The Dozens Of Actresses Pursued By Howard Hughes, To Reveal How The Millionaire Mogulâs 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 Hughesâthe 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 Hollywoodâs Most Famous Actresses, Among Them Billie Dove, Katharine Hepburn, Ava Gardner, And Lana Turner. From Promoting Bombshells Like Jean Harlow And Jane Russell To His Contentious Battles With The Censors, Hughesâperhaps More Than Any Other Filmmaker Of His Eraâcommoditized Male Desire As He Objectified And Sexualized Women. Yet There Were Also Numerous Women Pulled Into Hughesâs Grasp Who Never Made It To The Screen, Sometimes Virtually Imprisoned By An Increasingly Paranoid And Disturbed Hughes, Who Retained Multitudes Of Private Investigators, Security Personnel, And Informers To Make Certain These Actresses Would Not Escape His Clutches. Vivid, Perceptive, Timely, And Ridiculously Entertaining, The Seducer Is A Landmark Work That Examines Women, Sex, And Male Power In Hollywood During Its Golden Ageâa Legacy That Endures Nearly A Century Later.
Categories:
- History
- United States
Publisher : Custom House
Author : Longworth, Karina
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2019-11-12
Number Of Pages : 576
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0062440527
ISBN-13 : 9780062440525
Item weight : 1.39 lb
Dimensions : 1.3 in x 6.02 in x 8.86 in
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