Adolph zukor william desmond taylor
Adolph zukor william desmond taylor crime scene photos
Henry peavey!
Pre-Code Hollywood Confidential
“Hollywood knew how to manipulate a crime,” writes Mann, “their scenarists had been doing it for years.”
Tinseltown by William J.
Mann. Harper. 480 pages.
ON A CHILLY Los Angeles morning in February, 1922, reputable film director and head of the Motion Pictures Directors Association William Desmond Taylor was found shot to death in his chic Westlake bungalow.
Adolph zukor william desmond taylor
Taylor had just been appointed by Paramount studio head Adolph Zukor to single-handedly overhaul Hollywood’s scandal-blighted image. Ironically, owing to the dodgy nature of his demise, Taylor would end up posthumously enhancing Hollywood’s growing reputation as a debauched, godless American Sodom.
And according to veteran biographer William Mann’s recent Edgar-nominated true-crime tale, Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood, the Taylor murder kicked off “an odyssey of greed, ambition, envy, desire, betrayal, accusation, heartbreak, intrigue, triumph, and r