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This title in other editionsThe Bad and the Beautiful: Hollywood in the Fiftiesby Sam Kashner and Jennifer MacNair
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:WITH FRESH EMPHASIS on little-known stories [and] an impressive number of eyewitnesses (Chicago Tribune), Sam Kashner and Jennifer MacNair present a revealing.... ever fascinating glimpse into the shadowy reality and hidden mores of Hollywood in what was popularly considered a decade of innocence (Suzanne Finstad). [S]urprisingly vivid accounts (People) of such public icons as Lana Turner. Rock Hudson, Kim Novak, and Mae West explore the private scandals exploited by tabloids such as Confidential. Highlighting Hollywood's curious religious revival with The Robe, the film industry's exploitation of the potboiler Peyton Place, and the life of anarchic director Nick Ray of the enduring classic Rebel without a Cause, the authors [give] a compelling sense (Kirkus Reviews) of the unique obsessions of the era and the city's attempts to reinvent the magic and mystery of its past glories. Book News Annotation:Kashner, an inveterate writer about Hollywood, and journalist MacNair
discuss the Red-hunting, keyhole-peeping editor of Confidential
magazine; the bitter, striving queens of Hollywood gossip; the
forgotten, tortured artist William Inge, whose plays were turned into
some of the biggest films of the decade, and other facets of the time
and place.
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