Movie Confidential : Sex, Scandal, Murder and Mayhem in the Film Industry.
Title:
Movie Confidential : Sex, Scandal, Murder and Mayhem in the Film Industry.
Author:
Schanie, Andrew.
ISBN:
9781578604777
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (183 pages)
Contents:
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- The Scoop: Tales of Lust, Legends, Weirdness, and Woe -- Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle: Life of the Party -- 1 Fatty Arbuckle Suffers a Crushing Victory -- Clark Gable: Ready, Willing, and Gable -- 2 Gable Loves Older Women. Gable Also Loves Married Ladies. Hitler Loves Gable. Dillinger Wouldn't Miss It. -- Charlie Chaplin: The Comedic Red Scare -- 3 Charlie Chaplin Gets the Tramp Stamp -- Judy Garland: Being Judy Garland Is Quite a Chore -- 4 The Lost Autobiography -- The Academy Awards: Things You May Not Have Known about America's Most Over-Hyped Awards Show -- 5 Oscar Oddities -- Paul Bern: The Darkest Comedy -- 6 A Shocking and Puzzling Death -- Peter Jackson: Shock and Awful! -- 7 Peter Jackson Eats Vomit, Wins Oscar -- Richard Elfman: The Last and Greatest Midnight Movie Ever Made -- 8 The Forbidden Zone -- Silent Night, Deadly Night: No Cookies for Santa -- 9 Punish! The PTA Sends Santa off With No Cookies -- Titanic: Dude, I'm Sinking -- 10 Cast and Crew of Titanic Ride the Yellow Submarine -- The Turkish Film Industry: Remakes Through a Fever Dream Lens -- 11 The Turkish Film Industry Defies Copyright Laws and All Logic -- Twilight Zone: The Movie, Three Die Under Shocking Circumstances -- 12 No Redemption -- No Sequels: Brief Stories of Actors Who No Longer Need Agents -- 13 Swan Songs: Celebrity Suicides -- 14 We're Gonna Need a Bigger Casket -- 15 Artists Who Had "Cut" Called Too Soon -- 16 More Mysterious and Ultimately Unresolved Celebrity Deaths -- Missteps and Mistakes: Movieland's Embarrassments, Failures, Feuds, Fights, Stalkers, and Prostitutes -- 17 Actors Who Started Off as Porn Stars . . . and Who May Have Gone Back to Being Porn Stars -- 18 Factual Errors -- 19 Made for TV Movies That Would Never Be Made Today -- 20 Flop!.
21 Great Artists Who Made Bad Decisions -- 22 The Most Glamorous Profession Meets the Oldest Profession -- 23 Marriages That Weren't Meant to Be -- 24 Celebrities Who Made Sure Their Children Will Be Remembered -- 25 When Your Biggest Fans Turn Out to Be Crazy -- 26 Why Can't We Be Friends? -- 27 Alan Smithee: The Alias Men -- 28 Anna Nicole Smith: Grave Robber -- 29 When Should You Talk to Your Children About Sex . . . with Rob Lowe -- 30 "I'm Insane!" Christian Slater Is Freaking Out! -- 31 Olive Thomas: The Flapper Hits the Crapper -- 32 Winona Ryder and the Five-Finger Discount -- About the Author.
Abstract:
Truth really is stranger than fiction just look at the film industry. The product on the screen is no match for what goes on when the cameras stop rolling. Movie Confidential lays out the story-behind-the-story of Hollywood's most sordid true tales. Encompassing sex, scandal, murder, and mayhem, it dishes the dirt on stars of the past and present. From what really happened in Fatty Arbuckle's infamous room at the St. Francis Hotel to Eddie Murray's "I was just giving her a ride" defense, from PCP-laced chowder on the set of Titanic to Judy Garland's strange visions, to mysterious deaths, mistakes in filmmaking, and a multitude of other irresistible tales, this cheeky collection covers the gamut. Packed with photos and presented in the style of vintage scandal magazines from the 1950s, Movie Confidential is a compulsively readable look at filmdom's seamy underbelly.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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