Hollywood's Most Wanted : The Top Ten Book of Lucky Breaks, Prima Donnas, Box Office Bombs, and Other Oddities

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Pub. Date: 2002-08-01
Publisher(s): Potomac Books Inc
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Summary

Warren Beatty's first job was as a rat catcher in a Washington, D.C., theater. When Jack Nicholson first arrived in Hollywood, he sorted fan mail for the cartoon characters Tom and Jerry. Alan Ladd was discovered operating a hotdog stand outside a studio. For his fifty-fifth birthday, John Barrymore was given a naked woman wrapped in cellophane. George Hamilton used to throw away his socks after wearing them only once. Tough guy Charles Bronson was so poor as a kid that he wore his sister's hand-me-down dresses. Judy Garland was turned down for a role in the Our Gang comedies. Ronald Reagan rejected the role of Rick in Casablanca, later made famous by Humphrey Bogart. Jean Acker locked "the Great Lover," Rudolph Valentino, out of their honeymoon suite on their wedding night. Errol Flynn had a trick chair in his house with a cushion that when touched became a giant inflatable penis. The history of Hollywood is filled with the strange, bizarre, and the unbelievable. The seventy lists in Hollywood's Most Wanted'„¢describe in amusing detail Hollywood's top-ten worst movies, most dreadful performances, biggest bombs, funniest real names, sexiest blonde bombshells, most intriguing mysteries, most audacious publicity stunts, oddest couples, most inauspicious debuts, weirdest pre-acting jobs, most scandalous behavior, strangest deaths, and more.

Table of Contents

List of Photographs
xi
Introduction xiii
Opening Credits
1(4)
Notable film firsts
Odd Jobs
5(6)
Before they were movie stars
Big Breaks
11(4)
How stars were discovered
Inauspicious Debuts
15(4)
Movie debuts to forget
A Star Isn't Born
19(4)
The worst evaluations of talent
Movie Moguls
23(7)
Warner, Goldwyn, and Mayer
Contract Players
30(5)
Unusual movie star contracts
It's Only Money
35(3)
Grossly underpaid actors
Memorable Memorabilia
38(4)
It's amazing what collectors will pay
Sign In Please
42(3)
Movie star autographs
Film Fanatics
45(3)
With fans like these
Hollywood Name Game
48(3)
The names were changed
Rip, Chill, and Twinkle
51(3)
Unusual movie star names
No Publicity Is Bad Publicity
54(5)
Outlandish publicity stunts
Smarter than the Average Bara
59(4)
Actors with high IQs
The Write Stuff
63(4)
Writers who became screenwriters
Music to Their Ears
67(3)
Unlikely music hitmakers
The Candidates
70(4)
Actors turned politicians
Party Animals
74(4)
Memorable Hollywood parties
There's No Place like Home
78(4)
Fabulous Hollywood mansions
Car Crazy
82(3)
Automobiles of the stars
Clothes Encounters
85(5)
They were what they wore
It's a Gift
90(4)
It's better to give
They Were What They Ate
94(4)
What's on the menu?
Pampered Pets
98(3)
They didn't lead a dog's life
Amazing Animal Actors
101(4)
Babe, Bonzo, and Gentle Ben
Stage Mothers
105(4)
Mothers only a daughter could love
Faces to Die For
109(5)
If looks could kill
Sex Symbols
114(4)
Blonde bombshells and foreign attractions
In Like Flynn
118(4)
Hollywood's most notorious ladies' men
Kiss and Tell
122(3)
Unforgettable Hollywood kisses
Deflowered
125(4)
Roses, orchids, and violets
Sleeping with the Stars
129(3)
Fantastic star beds
Odd Couples
132(4)
Unlikely romances
May-December Romances
136(3)
Couples with an age difference
It Can't Be Love
139(4)
They didn't live happily ever after
The Marrying Kind
143(4)
Multiple matrimony
Role Reversals
147(4)
Bad career moves
Miscast
151(3)
They weren't right for the part
Method to Their Madness
154(5)
Techniques of method actors
Star Behavior
159(4)
Acting like a star
Oscar Oddities
163(5)
And the winners are ...
Actors Who Never Won an Oscar
168(4)
Academy Award oversights
Hollywood's Most Embarrassing Moments
172(3)
Moments they'd rather forget
Nobody's Perfect
175(3)
Ways stars improve their looks
Strange Behavior
178(3)
Movie stars' peculiar habits
The One and Only
181(3)
One-of-a-kind film facts
Believe It or Not
184(3)
Fact can be stranger than fiction
Outrageous Actors
187(6)
Mae, Tallulah, and Zsa Zsa
Outrageous Directors
193(6)
Unconventional men behind the camera
Cult Actors
199(4)
They have their own devoted followings
Outrageous Movies
203(3)
Movies that must be seen to be believed
Incredibly Strange Titles
206(3)
Outrageous film titles
You Got to Have a Gimmick
209(4)
Smell-O-Vision, Odorama, and Hallucinogenic Hypnovision
Movie Mistakes
213(3)
Fabulous film flubs
Film Flops
216(4)
Hollywood's biggest bombs
The Worst Movies Ever Made
220(5)
The ultimate film turkeys
The Worst Directors of All Time
225(4)
The auteurs of bad cinema
In the Stars
229(3)
Hollywood and the occult
Haunted Hollywood
232(4)
Are you afraid of ghosts?
Hollywood's Urban Legends
236(6)
Fact or myth?
The Unkindest Cut
242(3)
Ridiculous examples of censorship
Fighting Mad
245(4)
Put up your dukes
Feuds for Thought
249(5)
Hollywood wasn't big enough for both of their egos
Scandalous Behavior
254(5)
Hollywood's biggest scandals
Go Directly to Jail
259(3)
Stars who served time
Ending It All
262(4)
Star suicides
Hollywood Murders
266(3)
Tragic celebrity deaths
The Last Word
269(4)
That's all, folks
Bibliography 273(4)
Index 277(11)
About the Author 288

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