Publisher's Synopsis
In this riveting well known history, the maker of You Must Remember This tests the internal functions of Hollywood's alluring Golden Age through the tales of a portion of the many entertainers sought after by Howard Hughes, to uncover how the tycoon investor's fixations on sex, power, and exposure caught, mishandled, or helped ladies who longed for screen fame.As of late, the media has covered scores of amusement figures who involved their influence and cash in Hollywood to physically irritate and pressure probably the most capable ladies in film and TV. Yet, as Karina Longworth reminds us, some time before the Harvey Weinsteins, there was Howard Hughes - the Texas mogul, pilot, and movie producer whose standing as a realistic provocateur was matched simply by that as a productive womanizer.His alleged victories between his first separation in the last part of the 1920s and his union with entertainer Jean Peters in 1957 included a large number of Hollywood's most well known entertainers, among them Billie Dove, Katharine Hepburn, Ava Gardner, and Lana Turner. From advancing stunners like Jean Harlow and Jane Russell to his petulant fights with the blue pencils, Hughes - maybe more than some other producer of his period - commoditized male craving as he typified and sexualized ladies.However there were additionally various ladies maneuvered into Hughes' grip who never come to the screen, in some cases practically detained by an undeniably distrustful and upset Hughes, who held huge numbers of private agents, security staff, and witnesses to make specific these entertainers would not get away from his grasp.Distinctive, discerning, opportune, and absurdly engaging, Seduction is a milestone work that inspects ladies, sex, and male power in Hollywood during its Golden Age - a heritage that suffers almost a century after the fact.