Death in Hollywood

By: Peter Underwood

Narrated by: Joe Formichella

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 30 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’ husband - is included as a mysterious (not to say suspicious) death, as is the possible murder of Superman George Reeves. Others in this compelling catalog of colorful lives and different deaths include Merle Oberon, Sammy Davis Jr, Mary Pickford, John Wayne, Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, and Groucho Marx.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2018 Peter Underwood (P)2019 Peter Underwood

A little slow

Some interesting stories, but narrator was not that good. Would have preferred more recent case histories.

if you're going to hire a narrator make sure...

the book was okay but had way too many people that have been dead for the last 70-plus years and very little people know who they are. if you're going to hire an aerator please hire someone who can pronounce the last names of those he's talking about correctly. King Vidor is not pronounced Vydor. Elia Kazan is not pronounced Aliah Kazan. I was surprised that the narrator didn't call Humphrey Bogart Humphrey Boejert

Interesting Read

I enjoyed this book for light reading. It held my interest easily and learned a few things that I never heard about before,