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Documentary

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

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A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer to the stars.

Release Date : 2018-07-27

Language :English

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Status : Released

Production Company : Water's End ProductionsWavelengthAltimeter FilmsGreenwich Entertainment

Production Country : United States of America

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Scotty Bowers

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William Mann

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David Kuhn

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Stephen Fry

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Peter Bart

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Lois Bowers

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Matthew Hoffman

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Paul Teetor

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Jack Kimberling

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Michael Childers

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Lee Shook

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Robert Hofler

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Dian Hanson

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Tony Charmoli

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Paul LaMastra

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Phyllis Bowers

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Dale Bowers

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Liz Smith

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Myke Dodge Weiskopf

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Randolph Scott

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Laurence Olivier

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Ramon Novarro

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Orry-Kelly

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Vivien Leigh

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Elsa Lanchester

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Rock Hudson

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J. Edgar Hoover

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Katharine Hepburn

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William Holden

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Cary Grant

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Whoopi Goldberg

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Ava Gardner

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Greta Garbo

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Tom Ewell

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Beach Dickerson

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Bette Davis

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George Cukor

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Joseph I. Breen

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Lauren Bacall

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Jennifer Aniston

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Judith Anderson

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Walter Pidgeon

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Cole Porter

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Elvis Presley

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Sherri Shepherd

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Spencer Tracy

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Lana Turner

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Barbara Walters

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Edwin B. Willis

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Wallis Simpson

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Reviews

cityguide

@cityguide

2021-06-23

“Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood” wears a lot of hats, none of which quite fits. A salacious tell-all about the hidden sex lives of postwar movie stars; a peek at the underbelly of the repressive moral dictates of the studio system; a breezy biography of a self-described Hollywood prostitute and procurer; and a psychosexual study of a possibly damaged victim of extreme childhood abuse. Only the last offers a clue to interpreting the movie’s more astonishing revelations and unprobed corners. Until then, Matt Tyrnauer’s gossipy portrait of Scotty Bowers, an impish nonagenarian and former Marine, listens without judgment as he describes decades of servicing the closeted hungers of stars like Rock Hudson and Katharine Hepburn, helped by an eager network of World War II buddies. Back then, in a couple of trailers behind a gas station on Hollywood Boulevard, $20 could buy just about anything. Meandering behind Mr. Bowers as he shares faded photographs of extravagantly endowed young men and prurient factoids about his famous “tricks” — cheekily illustrated with scenes from classic movies that read rather differently in hindsight — Mr. Tyrnauer surreptitiously hoses away the layers of dirt to reveal the fragility of his subject’s anything-goes hedonism. Benevolent hustler (he never took a cut of others’ action) or naughty fabulist — perhaps both — Mr. Bowers putters around his hoarded Hollywood Hills home and gazes into the hole in his patio deck as if searching for something lost long ago. Consequently, what starts out salty ends up as something sadder and more complicated. And when he unabashedly recalls a childhood rife with sexual encounters — which he insists were consensual — with adults, the camera fixes on his mile-wide grin and we wonder if his mission to meet the needs of others has somehow ignored his own.