Tinseltown Gangsters

The Rise and Decline of the Mob in Hollywood

Jeffrey Sussman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2024
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-7356-5 (ISBN)

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Like sharks to blood in the water, the mob arrived in Hollywood greedy and ready to tear away huge chunks of cash. Opportunistic mobsters saw labor unions as the means for muscling into the movie industry and extorting millions of dollars from studio bosses. Control the unions to which projectionists, art directors, cinematographers, electricians, scene designers, stagehands, extras belong, and you control the whole industry.

Painting colorful portraits of numerous mobsters, producers, actors, and directors, Tinseltown Gangsters tells the gripping, fast-paced, true story of corruption and greed in Hollywood throughout much of the twentieth century.

Jeffrey Sussman is the author of 16 books, six of which have been published by Rowman and Littlefield, including Sin City Gangsters: The Rise and Decline of the Mob in Las Vegas and Big Apple Gangsters: The Rise and Decline of the Mob in New York. Jeffrey lives in New York City.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. The First Shark: Joseph Kennedy

Chapter 2. Dream City Gangster

Chapter 3. Little Tough Guy

Chapter 4. Willie Bioff: Solid Gold Extortionist

Chapter 5. Handsome Johnny Rosselli: Smooth as Silk

Chapter 6. Harry Cohn: White Fang

Chapter 7. The Death of the Ice Cream Blonde

Chapter 8. Sidney Korshak: The Outfit’s Fixer in Hollywood

Chapter 9. The Cotton Club Murders

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	08.02.2024
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 235 mm
Gewicht	531 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
ISBN-10	1-5381-7356-5 / 1538173565
ISBN-13	978-1-5381-7356-5 / 9781538173565
Zustand	Neuware