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In this riveting popular history, the creator of You Must Remember This probes the inner workings of Hollywood's glamorous golden age through the stories of some of the dozens of actresses pursued by Howard Hughes, to reveal how the millionaire mogul's obsessions with sex, power and publicity trapped, abused, or benefitted women who dreamt of screen stardom.In recent months, the media has reported on scores of entertainment figures who used their power and money in Hollywood to sexually harass and coerce some of the most talented women in cinema and television. But as Karina Longworth reminds us, long before the Harvey Weinsteins there was Howard Hughes - the Texas millionaire, pilot, and filmmaker whose reputation as a cinematic provocateur was matched only by that as a prolific womanizer.
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Karina Longworth is the creator, writer and host of You Must Remember This, a podcast on the secret and forgotten history of twentieth-century Hollywood. A former film editor of the LA Weekly and critic for the Village Voice, she is the author of the upcoming book Seduction: Sex, Lies and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood, as well as four previous books. She lives in Los Angeles.
