High in the hills above Los Angeles, nestled in the trees of Benedict Canyon, sits a 1930 Craftsman-style house that was once home to one of Hollywood's biggest stars. From the outside, its stone ...

On September 5, 1932, MGM director/writer/producer Paul Bern was found dead from a gunshot wound in his home in Beverly Crest, supposedly covered in Mitsouko, favorite perfume of his wife of two ...

Samuel Marx and Joyce Vanderveen are joshing one another. He, she insists, is “the old stoic.” She, he explains, is a ruthless cross-examiner. He writes in a heat, like he’s being tailed by a harpie.

Once Hollywood invented itself, it began to invent archetypes. William S. Hart was the Good Bad Man. Rudolph Valentino was the Latin Lover. Gary Cooper was the Quiet American. And Jean Harlow was, ...

While this book is an examination of a Hollywood mystery that is almost 60 years old, it is also Samuel Marx`s effort to clear his friend Paul Bern of slander and the ”scandalous and vicious ...