• Hollywood Horrors

  • Murders, Scandals, and Cover-Ups from Tinseltown
  • By: Andrea Van Landingham
  • Narrated by: Cindy Piller
  • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (26 ratings)

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Hollywood Horrors

By: Andrea Van Landingham
Narrated by: Cindy Piller
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The name “Hollywood” conjures up fantastical images of bright lights, glamorous dreams, and impossible riches. From its humble beginnings as a ranch sprawling northwest of Los Angeles in the late 1800s, Hollywood has spanned lifetimes as a factory of dreams, a dazzling place where all things are possible. 

This collection of stories takes you on a journey into the golden age, illuminating the space between the airy fantasy and the gritty reality of life in Hollywood. In a transient city where nothing lasts, thousands of stories have taken place in their time here. From the offscreen debauchery of the silent era, to countless dramatic and mysterious deaths, to the sinister past lives of world-famous LA landmarks, vestiges of Hollywood’s checkered past can still be found all over the city. 

With generations of Tinseltown’s luminaries living and working under the sunny guise of paradisal prosperity, their real stories reveal the sordid underbelly lurking directly beneath the surface. A dangerous collusion between the studios, the press, the mob, and the LAPD forms an impenetrable behind-the-scenes network of corruption, power and control, where the truth is always up for sale. A network in which the most glamorous and well-known figures are merely players in this elaborate charade. It’s magical and gritty, it’s ugly and dirty, it’s the land of dreams...it’s Hollywood.

©2021 Andrea Van Landingham (P)2021 Rowman & Littlefield

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This was an excellent performance of some tired old stories. Nothing seems to have been added through research to the folklore of some of the more commonly told American movie business stories. Maybe there's nothing left to tell twenty some odd years into the 21st century that hasn't been told a thousand times before. If that's the case a talented author might consider moving in new directions.

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Movies and Murder

Get an inside look into some of the lives of Hollywood's most notorious stars. This book deep dives into the lives and misdeeds of many of Hollywood's glittering stars of the golden age. Well rounded, and well written, this book will keep you engaged throughout.

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Very detailed, and interesting

Some of the stories I was familiar with. But some of them were new to me. Great listen

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Awesome stories

Really great insight and stories into past debacles in Hollywood. Enjoyed every second of this book.

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Enjoyed the book

….. shame it had to end! Need more books please as Hollywood has many stories to tell!

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