The Man Who Seduced Hollywood: The Life and Loves of Greg Bautzer, Tinseltown's Most Powerful Lawyer
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (948 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1613745796 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Booklist Greg Bautzer was freshly graduated from law school in 1936, when he decided he wanted to become a Hollywood celebrity lawyer (at a time when there weren’t four or five celebrity attorneys for every actual celebrity). Bautzer got so big that he is widely considered to have single-handedly masterminded Kirk Kerkorian’s hostile takeover of MGM in the late 1960s. As Gladstone tells it in this unusual take on Hollywood’s golden age, Bautzer cultivated an image as a dashing, eligible bachelor, an image designed to gain him maximum exposure in the high-flying circles where he hoped to find clients. This is a very good book about a very famous man who is now, sadly, almost entirely forgotten. He did it, too, almost immediately forging a profitable relationship with Twentieth Century–Fox chairman Joe Schenk. --David Pitt . The strategy worked, as over the years, he numbered some of show business’ biggest pl
Columnists dubbed him “Hollywood Bachelor Number One,” and for good reason. The Man Who Seduced Hollywood tells, for the first time, the amazing story of a self-made man who for fifty years used his irresistible charm and prodigious legal talent to dominate the courtrooms, boardrooms, and bedrooms of Hollywood. In addition to new stories about Hughes, this biography contains countless anecdotes about Bautzer's other well-known clients and friends including Joan Crawford, Frank Sinatra, Ingrid Bergman, Rock Hudson, Bugsy Siegel, Robert Evans, Kirk Kerkorian and many more of the twentieth century's biggest stars.. Open any movie magazine from the 1930s, ’40s, or ’50s and you’ll find a picture of attorney Greg Bautzer with a beautiful starlet. As a lawyer, he represented nearly every major star of his era, as well as the richest man in the world, Howard Hughes, for whom he served as adviser, confidant, and best friend. He also handled Hughes’s shadier deals, including writing checks for a harem of kept women and quashing potentially embarrassing tell-all biographies. In Hollywood history, no other lawyer has achieved the movie star–like fame and glamour that Bautzer enjoyed. His long-term relationships and mom
Fascinating Untold Hollywood Story Zantigar Aside from it being the first biography of this phenomenal career, "The Man Who Seduced Hollywood" makes for quite a lively, captivating read. It's as if Bautzer were the Citizen Kane of entertainment lawyers, complete with nightclub dancing and studio takeovers. Mr. Gladstone makes legal cases of the stars accessible to the reader, revealing the emotional drives behind the proceedings - including . A must for anyone interested in behind-the-scenes Hollywood History R. Gale Actually, this might better be described as a Behind Behind-The-Scenes Hollywood history. We know about the men who ran the studios, but we don't know much about the men who advised them. This book provides a fascinating look at someone with whom I was unfamiliar, but who had his hand in an amazing number of high profile deals, and had another appendage in an amazing number of gorgeous movie stars.. "Business as Pleasure: A wonderful romp through Hollywood history" according to David O. Neuschulz. This is a captivating tale of a man whose rise as a film industry power-broker nearly matches the trajectory of the Golden Age of Hollywood itself. Gladstone does a marvelous job bringing Bautzer to life in the context of a whole panoply of well-known Hollywood stars and elite. Indeed, within the industry, no distinction was made between Bautzer and the stars he represented and bedded; Bautzer was