Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime And Punishment In Postwar Los Angeles - 9780520284319

Two spectacular dead bodiesùElizabeth Short, known as the Black Dahlia, found dumped and posed in a vacant lot in January 1947, and Marilyn Monroe, found dead in her home in August 1962ùbookend this new history of HollywoodÆs postwar transition. ShortÆs murder called attention to the lives of the many disenfranchised in Los Angeles; she was, after all, one of them. MonroeÆs death involved the entourage inhabiting her movie star orbit: quack doctors, gangsters, Hollywood celebrities, the FBI and the CIA, and, inevitably, the Kennedys. Hard-Boiled Hollywood focuses on the many lives lost at the crossroads of a dreamed-of Hollywood and the real thing following the collapse of the studio system as celebrities, moguls, mobsters, gossip mongers, and industry wannabes came into frequent contact and conflict.

• | Author: Jon Lewis
• | Publisher: University Of California Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 19, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 248 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Performing Arts
• | ISBN-10: 0520284313
• | ISBN-13: 9780520284319