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Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood

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Publisher: HarperAudio
Release date: November 13, 2018
Duration: 20:21:54

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’s 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, The Seducer 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.

BookList….”Not a beginning-to-end biography of Hughes, the book is instead a deep dive into a part of his life. Illuminating and memorable.”

Kirkus Review…”A history that shows clearly how powerful men exploited actresses long before the #MeToo movement began. Hollywood historian Longworth has mined memoirs, biographies, magazines, newspapers, and archives to create an entertaining, gossip-filled portrait of the film capital’s golden age, from the 1920s through the 1960s. Central to the story is the enormously wealthy, paranoid, and erratic Howard Hughes (1905-1976), businessman and aviator, whose self-proclaimed goal was “to become the world’s most famous motion picture producer” and whose leering desire for buxom young actresses represented the proclivities of many other men in the industry……”

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001 - Seduction.mp3 128.01 KBs
002 - Cast of Characters.mp3 3.78 MBs
003 - Part I - Hollywood Before Hell’s Angels 1910-1928 - Introduction.mp3 9.65 MBs
004 - Part I - Hollywood Before Hell’s Angels 1910-1928 - Chapter 1.mp3 16.24 MBs
005 - Part I - Hollywood Before Hell’s Angels 1910-1928 - Chapter 2.mp3 23.96 MBs
006 - Part I - Hollywood Before Hell’s Angels 1910-1928 - Chapter 3.mp3 21.25 MBs
007 - Part II - Billie And Jean 1928-1936 - Chapter 4.mp3 19.72 MBs
008 - Part II - Billie And Jean 1928-1936 - Chapter 5.mp3 18.3 MBs
009 - Part II - Billie And Jean 1928-1936 - Chapter 6.mp3 27.23 MBs
010 - Part II - Billie And Jean 1928-1936 - Chapter 7.mp3 20.44 MBs
011 - Part II - Billie And Jean 1928-1936 - Chapter 8.mp3 12.58 MBs
012 - Part III - Hepburn And Rogers And Russell 1932-1940 - Chapter 9.mp3 19.85 MBs
013 - Part III - Hepburn And Rogers And Russell 1932-1940 - Chapter 10.mp3 16.07 MBs
014 - Part III - Hepburn And Rogers And Russell 1932-1940 - Chapter 11.mp3 16.02 MBs
015 - Part III - Hepburn And Rogers And Russell 1932-1940 - Chapter 12.mp3 16.04 MBs
016 - Part IV - Life During Wartime 1941-1946 - Chapter 13.mp3 18.37 MBs
017 - Part IV - Life During Wartime 1941-1946 - Chapter 14.mp3 16.04 MBs
018 - Part IV - Life During Wartime 1941-1946 - Chapter 15.mp3 19.17 MBs
019 - Part IV - Life During Wartime 1941-1946 - Chapter 16.mp3 18.89 MBs
020 - Part IV - Life During Wartime 1941-1946 - Chapter 17.mp3 22.11 MBs
021 - Part IV - Life During Wartime 1941-1946 - Chapter 18.mp3 18.83 MBs
022 - Part V - Terry Jean and RKO 1948-1956 - Chapter 19.mp3 23.67 MBs
023 - Part V - Terry Jean and RKO 1948-1956 - Chapter 20.mp3 29.18 MBs
024 - Part V - Terry Jean and RKO 1948-1956 - Chapter 21.mp3 19.81 MBs
025 - Part V - Terry Jean and RKO 1948-1956 - Chapter 22.mp3 25.91 MBs
026 - Part V - Terry Jean and RKO 1948-1956 - Chapter 23.mp3 21.7 MBs
027 - Part V - Terry Jean and RKO 1948-1956 - Chapter 24.mp3 16.69 MBs
028 - Part VI - Hughes After RKO - Chapter 25.mp3 15.26 MBs
029 - Part VI - Hughes After RKO - Chapter 26.mp3 15.72 MBs
030 - Part VI - Hughes After RKO - Chapter 27.mp3 14.33 MBs
031 - Epilogue - Life After Death.mp3 18.93 MBs
032 - Notes On Sources And Acknowledgements.mp3 3.55 MBs
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