Tinseltown [sound recording] : murder, morphine, and madness at the dawn of Hollywood
Titre
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Tinseltown [sound recording] : murder, morphine, and madness at the dawn of Hollywood
Auteur
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Mann, William J.,
Interprètes
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Read by Christopher Lane.
Numéro de cote topographique requis
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CD 364.152309 MAN
Informations de publication
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[Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Audio, Inc., [2014]
℗2014
Sujet
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Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- California -- Los Angeles -- Case studies.
Motion picture producers and directors -- Crimes against -- United States.
Murder -- Investigation -- California -- Los Angeles -- Case studies.
Audiobooks.
Taylor, William Desmond, 1877-1922 -- Friends and associates.
Genre
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Audiobooks.
Description matérielle
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14 audio discs (16 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition
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Unabridged.
Note générale
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Title from container.
Compact discs.
"Tracks every 3 minutes for easy bookmarking"--Container.
Vedette secondaire - auteur
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Lane, Christopher,
Vedette secondaire - nom collectif
:
Blackstone Audio, Inc.,
Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
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9781483024196
Résumé
:
By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America's new favorite pastime and one of the nation's largest industries. Never before had a medium possessed such power to influence; yet Hollywood's glittering ascendancy was threatened by a string of headline-grabbing tragedies--including the murder of William Desmond Taylor, the popular president of the Motion Picture Directors Association, a legendary crime that has remained unsolved until now. In a fiendishly involving narrative, bestselling Hollywood chronicler William J. Mann draws on a rich host of sources, including recently released FBI files, to uncover the story of the enigmatic Taylor and the diverse group of people who surrounded him--including three beautiful, ambitious actresses; a grasping stage mother; a devoted valet; and a gang of two-bit thugs, any of whom might have fired the fatal bullet. And overseeing this entire landscape of intrigue was Adolph Zukor, the brilliant and ruthless founder of Paramount Pictures, locked in a struggle for control of the industry and desperate to conceal the truth about the crime. Along the way, Mann brings to life Los Angeles in the Roaring Twenties: a sparkling yet schizophrenic town filled with party girls, drug dealers, religious zealots, newly minted legends, and starlets already past their prime--a dangerous place where the powerful could still run afoul of the desperate.
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