Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood

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In this riveting widespread historical past, the author of You Will have to Take into account that This probes the internal workings of Hollywood’s glamorous golden age during the tales of probably the most dozens of actresses pursued via Howard Hughes, to show how the millionaire wealthy person’s obsessions with intercourse, energy and exposure trapped, abused, or benefitted ladies who dreamt of monitor stardom.

In contemporary months, the media has stated on rankings of leisure figures who used their energy and cash in Hollywood to sexually harass and coerce probably the most such a lot gifted ladies in cinema and tv. However as Karina Longworth reminds us, lengthy earlier than the Harvey Weinsteins there was once Howard Hughes—the Texas millionaire, pilot, and filmmaker whose recognition as a cinematic provocateur was once matched simplest via that as a prolific womanizer.

His meant conquests among his first divorce within the overdue Nineteen Twenties and his marriage to actress Jean Peters in 1957 integrated a lot of Hollywood’s such a lot well-known actresses, amongst them Billie Dove, Katharine Hepburn, Ava Gardner, and Lana Turner. From selling bombshells like Jean Harlow and Jane Russell to his contentious battles with the censors, Hughes—most likely greater than every other filmmaker of his generation—commoditized male want as he objectified and sexualized ladies. But there have been additionally a large number of ladies pulled into Hughes’s grab who by no means made it to the monitor, every so often just about imprisoned via an increasingly more paranoid and disturbed Hughes, who retained multitudes of personal investigators, safety workforce, and informers to be sure those actresses might now not get away his clutches.

Vivid, perceptive, well timed, and ridiculously unique, The Seducer is a landmark paintings that examines ladies, intercourse, and male energy in Hollywood right through its golden age—a legacy that endures just about a century later.

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