Title: Seduction Pdf Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood
In this riveting popular history, the creator of You Must Remember This probes the inner workings of Hollywood's glamorous Golden Age through the stories of some of the dozens of actresses pursued by Howard Hughes, to reveal how the millionaire mogul's obsessions with sex, power, and publicity trapped, abused, or benefited women who dreamt of screen stardom.
In recent months, the media has reported on scores of entertainment figures who used their power and money in Hollywood to sexually harass and coerce some of the most talented women in cinema and television. But as Karina Longworth reminds us, long before the Harvey Weinsteins, there was Howard Hughes - the Texas millionaire, pilot, and filmmaker whose reputation as a cinematic provocateur was matched only by that as a prolific womanizer.
His supposed conquests between his first divorce in the late 1920s and his marriage to actress Jean Peters in 1957 included many of Hollywood's most famous actresses, among them Billie Dove, Katharine Hepburn, Ava Gardner, and Lana Turner. From promoting bombshells like Jean Harlow and Jane Russell to his contentious battles with the censors, Hughes - perhaps more than any other filmmaker of his era - commoditized male desire as he objectified and sexualized women.
Yet there were also numerous women pulled into Hughes' grasp who never made it to the screen, sometimes virtually imprisoned by an increasingly paranoid and disturbed Hughes, who retained multitudes of private investigators, security personnel, and informers to make certain these actresses would not escape his clutches.
Vivid, perceptive, timely, and ridiculously entertaining, Seduction is a landmark work that examines women, sex, and male power in Hollywood during its Golden Age - a legacy that endures nearly a century later.
Skip it I love Hollywood gossip so I was really looking forward to reading this. What a disappointment. Nothing new to reveal and I got incredibly tired of Howard Hughes repeated conquests. Had to force myself to finish it and felt like a shower afterward cuz he was such scum. Read Noah Dietrich’s book about Hughes instead. Much better than thisMore than I needed to know An exhausting but thrillingly researched account of the ghastly life of Howard Hughes and every man, sexy movie actress and anyone else who ever crossed his destructive path.I got through it by skimming large sections of seemingly repeated events and information.A fascinating if tiresome journey.Boring Worst book ever, I was looking forward to reading about Howard Hughes. It has , so little about him and all about old producers, directors, and movies
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