The Mob in Show Business ( The Beauties and the Beasts )

I Gigolos and Gorillas In covering the nightclubs I found myself enmeshed in the underworld without quite realizing what was taking place, -EARL WILSON . , . the Hollywood of the 1930s in which the studios were run by pirates, semi-illiterates, amoral immigrants, men who indulged in corruption, blackmail, sex orgies, nepotism, men who made exorbitant profits, bought beau- tiful women for bit parts, discarded them for younger favorites and trafficked with the most despicable segments of the underworld, -LLOYD SHEARER I'm going to marry a blind man. - "...Did Jean Harlow really arrange to have her husband murdered? Was Marilyn Monroe having an affair with Robert Kennedy? Is Frank Sinatra a tool of organized crime? All this and more await the eager reader!" Here's the Shocking true story of Hollywood's Mob connections and Mob intrigue-spanning the years from the very first movies right down to the present...the real inside story of Hollywood's seamy unerbelly. Ture facts behind such notorious cases Con man Nicky Arnstein and Follies star Fanny Brice..racketeer Longy Zwillman and platinum bombshell Jean Harlow..the shocking throat-slashing of comedian Joe. E. Lewis..Jill St. John's friendship with a mystery lawyer with Mob connections...and more! the inside story behind attempts by organized crime to blackmail Bobby Kennedy over his alleged affair with Marilyn Monroe.