num_pages: 398
description: The Hollywood way of life has long been a potent mix of scandal, secrecy and sensation: exactly like the Hollywood way of death...In this unique study, Peter Underwood charts the lives, loves and deaths of thirty of Tinseltown's most glittering stars. Many deaths were sad or senseless; some were tragic; others were the revenge of old age, while a few were the revenge of something altogether more sinister...The untimely, sensational deaths of legends Marilyn Monroe and James Dean are here: so too is the tragic demise of Jean Harlow, whose Christian Scientist mother banned medical help to the end. Arthur Farnsworth - Bette Davis's husband - is included as a mysterious (not to say suspicious) death, as is the possible murder of Superman George Reeves.Others in this compelling catalogue of colourful lives and different deaths include Merle Oberon, Sammy Davis Jr, Mary Pickford, John Wayne, Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper and Groucho Marx.
language: English
title: Death in Hollywood
titlecomplete: Death in Hollywood (Transaction Large Print Books)
genres: True Crime, History, Historical, Nonfiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 52
publisher: Isis Large Print Books