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Scandals, Secrets and Swansongs

How Hollywood Stars Lived, Worked, and Died

Boze Hadleigh author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield

Published:1st Sep '21

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Behind the images and facades of stars whose fame and fascination continue to outlive them lies the naked truth. How Hollywood stars lived, worked and died is often more dramatic than their films. When we talk about movie stars we usually dwell not on their movies but their personalities or what happened to them or supposedly happened. Their lives interest us even more than their roles, especially, let’s be honest, their mishaps and tragedies, including early deaths. Their scandals define several movie stars, and Hollywood secrets remain a true-gossip staple, particularly sexual secrets. Scandals, Secrets & Swansongs takes a close-up, no-holds-barred look at 101 stars—at their surprising, often shocking, sometimes sordid but always entertaining real selves and lives.

ISBN: 9781493060535

Dimensions: 232mm x 154mm x 18mm

Weight: 449g

280 pages