Publisher's Synopsis
This portrait of the Hollywood film industry in the 1950s concentrates on five major stars of the time - Elizabeth Taylor, Natalie Wood, Montgomery Clift, Rock Hudson and James Dean and draws on extensive interviews and unpublished material.;This book examines the new generation of stars created in the 1950s, whose private lives encapsulated the entire world of Hollywood - the glamour and the delusion, the hype and the scandal, the adulation and the rejection, the sensational successes and the ultimate tragedies.;John Parker's last book was the bestselling "King of Fools" about Edward VII.
