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Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Live of the Stars [Paperback]

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  • Category: Books (Biography & Autobiography)
  • Author:  Bowers, Scotty
  • Author:  Bowers, Scotty
  • ISBN-10:  0802120555
  • ISBN-10:  0802120555
  • ISBN-13:  9780802120557
  • ISBN-13:  9780802120557
  • Publisher:  Grove Press
  • Publisher:  Grove Press
  • Pages:  304
  • Pages:  304
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2013
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2013
  • SKU:  0802120555-11-MING
  • SKU:  0802120555-11-MING
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Now the subject of the hit documentaryScotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, praised byVanity Fairas full of revelations andEntertainment Weeklyas deliciously salacious,Full Serviceis the remarkable true story of Scotty Bowers, the gentleman hustler, during the heyday of classic Hollywood.

Newly discharged from the Marines after World War II, Bowers arrived in Hollywood in 1946. Young, charismatic, and strikingly handsome, he quickly caught the eye of many of the towns stars and starlets. He began sleeping with some himself, and connecting others with his coterie of young, attractive, and sexually free-spirited friends. His own lovers included Edith Piaf, Spencer Tracy, Vivien Leigh, Cary Grant, and the abdicated King of England Edward VIII, and he arranged tricks or otherwise crossed paths with Tennessee Williams, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price, Katharine Hepburn, Rita Hayworth, Errol Flynn, Gloria Swanson, No?l Coward, Mae West, James Dean, Rock Hudson and J. Edgar Hoover, to name but a few.

Full Serviceis not only a fascinating chronicle of Hollywoods sexual underground, but also exposes the hypocrisy of the major studios, who used actors to propagate a myth of a conformist, sexually innocent America knowing full well that their stars personal lives differed dramatically from this family-friendly mold. As revelation-filled asHollywood Babylon,Full Serviceprovides a lost chapter in the history of the sexual revolution and is a testament to a man who provided sex, support, and affection to countless people.

Scotty Bowers, now 95, still works as a bartender at private functions in Hollywood.
Lionel Friedberg is an Emmy-winning producer, director and professional writer.
Preface


Although I’m not a shy man I have always been reticent to reveal details about what I have done, mainly to respect the privacy of those whose lives have intersected with mine. But, if l£Í