True Hollywood Noir: Filmland Mysteries and Murders by Di Mambro, Dina
True Hollywood Noir: Filmland Mysteries and Murders by Di Mambro, Dina

True Hollywood Noir: Filmland Mysteries and Murders

2014 IPPY Bronze Medal Award. A tantalizing mixture of classic Hollywood nostalgia and true crime, True Hollywood...
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True Hollywood Noir: Filmland Mysteries and Murders by Di Mambro, Dina

True Hollywood Noir: Filmland Mysteries and Murders

$42.93
True Hollywood Noir: Filmland Mysteries and Murders by Di Mambro, Dina

True Hollywood Noir: Filmland Mysteries and Murders

$42.93
Author: Dina Di Mambro
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
2014 IPPY Bronze Medal Award. A tantalizing mixture of classic Hollywood nostalgia and true crime, True Hollywood Noir: Filmland Mysteries and Murder, featuring 100 rare photographs, is suspenseful, entertaining, and eminently readable. Uncover true stories of mystery and murder in a dozen different chapters featuring William Desmond Taylor, Thomas Ince, Jean Harlow, Thelma Todd, Joan Bennett, Lana Turner, George Reeves, Gig Young, Bob Crane, Natalie Wood, Robert Blake, and Mickey Cohen. Included in the cast of characters of this book are Johnny Stompanato, William Randolph Hearst, Marion Davies, and Charlie Chaplin. And find never before told mob stories about Ben "Bugsy" Siegel, Virginia Hill, and a host of notorious underworld figures.From 1922 until 2001, explore some of Filmland's most fascinating mysteries, scandals and murders true Hollywood noir lived by the players behind the scenes. Each chapter dissects the various theories in each case, but it is up to you to make up your own mind. From the West Coast mob and city corruption intertwining with Hollywood mysteries on and off the screen, to the plots of noir films pulled from actual happenings in the underworld, get the stories behind the stories, the darker images playing out in living color behind the silver screen.While most of the actors featured here met with untimely tragic deaths or notorious misfortune coloring the remainder of their lives, the talent of these highly creative individuals and the legacy they've left us gives them a timeless immortality.

Author: Dina Di Mambro
Publisher: Classichollywoodbios.com Publications
Published: 08/30/2013
Pages: 268
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780615572697


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/01/2013 pg. 112
Publishers Weekly 12/16/2013
Foreword 06/10/2015

About the Author
Dina Di Mambro is a film historian and award winning entertainment writer who has worked as a research consultant for A&E Biography and "E" Entertainment Television documentaries. She started writing for Hollywood Studio Magazine and other publications while still in her teens. As a journalist, she has interviewed such luminaries as Glenn Ford, Shirley MacLaine and Dyan Cannon. As Dina-Marie Kulzer, she authored Television Series Regulars of the Fifties and Sixties in Interview, consisting of twenty-two interviews with classic television stars. It was praised by The TV Collector as "the kind of book that will elate baby-booming TV fans. The author has hand-picked a great bunch of classic television people for conversations about their careers-a handy addition to any nostalgia buff's library." She currently lives in Long Beach, California.


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