Hollywood Tragedy - from Fatty Arbuckle to Marilyn Monroe E-Book

William H. A. Carr

• Herausgeber: Edizioni Savine
• Kategorie: Sachliteratur, Reportagen, Biografien
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1962): “Fatty Arbuckle, Jean Harlow, Errol Flynn, Marilyn Monroe, Ingrid Bergman, Elizabeth Taylor.Why were these names smeared across the world in scarlet headlines? Too much money, too much fame, too much adulation, too much time?Here are the facts behind the scandals that rocked the world of the dream merchants. Here are the true stories—on the record and off—of the stars who survived, and the ones who went down...… Sex is in this book. Crime fills many of its pages. All of the subject matter is sensational.”

Leseprobe

HOLLYWOOD TRAGEDY

FROM FATTY ARBUCKLE TO MARILYN MONROE

A prize-winning reporter digs into the front page stories and comes up with the real facts

by WILLIAM H. A. CARR

New digital edition of:

Hollywood Tragedy

by William H. A. Carr

© 1962 by William H. A. Carr

Copyright © 2016 - Edizioni Savine

email: [email protected]

ISBN 978-88-96365-95-3

CONTENTS

HOLLYWOOD TRAGEDY

Tragedy Off Screen

Marilyn Monroe: The Star-Crossed

Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle: A Party in ’Frisco

William Desmond Taylor: Who Killed the Mystery Man?

Paul Bern: Why Did Jean Harlow’s Husband Die?

Thelma Todd: The Wrong Time for Death

Errol Flynn: The Moon Through a Porthole

Charlie Chaplin: Blood Won’t Tell

Lupe Velez: She Didn’t Believe in Marriage

Ingrid Bergman: The Saint Was a Woman

Lana Turner: Death of a Playmate

Elizabeth Taylor: The Eternal Triangles

Tragedy Off Screen

Because of the tragic, untimely death of Marilyn Monroe, a reporter was assigned the task of digging into the files of Hollywood scandals as far back as the Fatty Arbuckle rape case, to uncover the causes and events leading up to these real life dramas. Dramas that surpass anything put on the screen.

You will be taken behind the scenes of Hollywood’s most sensational scandals involving such famous stars as Thelma Todd, Lana Turner, Errol Flynn, William Desmond Taylor, Charlie Chaplin, Ingrid Bergman and many others.

Is the glittering, tinsel dream world of Hollywood to blame for their scandals or were these personalities doomed for other, deeper reasons? Mr. Carr supplies some answers in this shocking report that pulls no punches.