The Hollywood Godfather
W. R. Wilkerson III
sept. 2018 · Lantern Audio · Lu par Kevin Stillwell
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This is the definitive biography of the most powerful man in Hollywood during the 1930’s, ’40s and ’50s, the man who founded The Hollywood Reporter and the most storied nightspots of the Sunset Strip. In the thirty years as Tinseltown’s premier behind-the-scenes power broker, Billy Wilkerson introduced Clark Gable and Lana Turner to the world, brought the Mafia to Hollywood, and engineered the shakedown of the Hollywood studios by Willie Bioff and his mob-run unions. He also helped to invent Las Vegas, tangled with Bugsy Siegel (and possibly was involved with his murder), and touched off the Hollywood blacklist. Perhaps nobody in Hollywood history has ever ruined so many careers or done so much to reshape the movie industry as Billy Wilkerson, yet there has never been a solid biography of the man. Billy’s son, William R. Wilkerson III, has done tremendous research on his father, interviewing over several decades, everyone who knew him best, and he portrays him beautifully and damningly in this book.
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W.R. Wilkerson III was raised and educated in England and is a graduate from the University of Southern California. He has authored several books including ONE VOTE, ONE PERSON: How Changing Our Voting System Will Get Us Out of the Mess We're In (2008), The Monk's Son (2007), HOW WOULD YOU VOTE IF YOU WERE ALLOWED TO: Experience the Power of Direct Democracy and Make Your Voice Heard (2006), Las Vegas: Vintage Graphics from Sin City Edited by Jim Heimann (2003), All America Ads of the 40's Edited by Jim Heimann (2002), and The Man Who Invented Las Vegas (1999).
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