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Lady Eve shares View profile View Blog. Entertainment Magazine Authors. Maybe not, given that the prince and princess in this particular tale are Tyrone Power and Loretta Young. Talented, in the blossom of youth and blessed with storybook good looks, the two were becoming the American equivalent of royalty — Hollywood movie stars - when they first began working together in the s.

You know you're in for a tantalizing story when it begins, "I was sitting in Gore Vidal's living room. That's how filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer began explaining what led him to make Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood , his feature documentary about Scotty Bowers, the nowyear-old who has claimed to have set up hundreds — if not thousands — of hush-hush same-sex sexual liaisons for some of the biggest names in Hollywood's golden age, including Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Cole Porter, and Rock Hudson. The film alternates between shadowing Bowers during the launch of his tell-all memoir Full Service and chronicling his one-of-a-kind journey from some of the harshest battlefields of World War II to the Los Angeles gas station that he single-handedly transformed into a clandestine brothel for Hollywood's burgeoning tribe of closeted gay and bisexual professionals. Bowers had spent decades as one of the entertainment industry's best-kept secrets — before the release of his memoir. But that didn't keep Tyrnauer — a journalist for Vanity Fair who also made the documentary Valentino: The Last Emperor — from catching whispers about him. Rather than mention Bowers by name, Tyrnauer said Griffin told him, "'There's a gas station where you used to go to get in trouble' — which is exactly what someone of that era would've said. Meanwhile, he had started a long and rewarding professional relationship with Vidal, the famed literary iconoclast whose novel The City and the Pillar was a landmark depiction of a gay man's coming of age — and included lengthy passages about the lives of gay men in Hollywood in the s.

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