And overseeing this entire landscape of intrigue was Adolph Zukor, the brilliant and ruthless founder of Paramount Pictures, locked in a struggle for control of the industry and desperate to conceal the truth about the crime. Mann draws on a rich host of sources, including recently released FBI files, to uncover the story of the enigmatic Taylor and the diverse group of people who surrounded him-including three beautiful, ambitious actresses a grasping stage mother a devoted valet and a gang of two-bit thugs, any of whom might have fired the fatal bullet. In a fiendishly involving narrative, bestselling Hollywood chronicler William J. Never before had a medium possessed such power to influence yet Hollywood's glittering ascendancy was threatened by a string of headline-grabbing tragedies-including the murder of William Desmond Taylor, the popular president of the Motion Picture Directors Association, a legendary crime that has remained unsolved until now. |aВ By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America's new favorite pastime and one of the nation's largest industries. |aВ Ashland, Oregon : |bВ Blackstone Audio, |cВ в„—2014. |aВ Tinseltown |hВ : |bВ murder, morphine, and madness at the dawn of Hollywood / |cВ by William J.

|aВ BLACP |bВ eng |eВ rda |cВ BLACP |dВ OCLCO |dВ BTCTA |dВ TEF |dВ MLN |dВ SKYRV Along the way, Mann brings to life Los Angeles in the Roaring Twenties: a sparkling yet schizophrenic town filled with party girls, drug dealers, religious zealots, newly minted legends, and starlets already past their prime-a dangerous place where the powerful could still run afoul of the desperate.

By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America's new favorite pastime and one of the nation's largest industries.

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