Hollywood Death and Scandal Sites: Seventeen Driving Tours with Directions and the Full Story, 2d ed.
For more than a century, people have been drawn to sites of tragedy involving the rich, beautiful and notorious of Hollywood. Tourists at the center of the movie universe flock to Rudolph Valentino’s grave, the house where Marilyn Monroe died, the “O.J. murders” condo, the hotel where John Belushi overdosed, a myriad of haunted mansions. In its extensively researched and enlarged second edition, this book tells the stories of these locations and makes finding them simple. Seventeen driving tours include more than 650 sites. Each tour covers a specific area, from Hollywood and the Sunset Strip to Brentwood and Malibu, covering the entire Los Angeles basin. Concise, easy-to-follow directions are given to each location with 145 photos and the fascinating story behind each stop.
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Hollywood Death and Scandal Sites: Seventeen Driving Tours with Directions and the Full Story, 2d ed.
For more than a century, people have been drawn to sites of tragedy involving the rich, beautiful and notorious of Hollywood. Tourists at the center of the movie universe flock to Rudolph Valentino’s grave, the house where Marilyn Monroe died, the “O.J. murders” condo, the hotel where John Belushi overdosed, a myriad of haunted mansions. In its extensively researched and enlarged second edition, this book tells the stories of these locations and makes finding them simple. Seventeen driving tours include more than 650 sites. Each tour covers a specific area, from Hollywood and the Sunset Strip to Brentwood and Malibu, covering the entire Los Angeles basin. Concise, easy-to-follow directions are given to each location with 145 photos and the fascinating story behind each stop.
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Hollywood Death and Scandal Sites: Seventeen Driving Tours with Directions and the Full Story, 2d ed.

Hollywood Death and Scandal Sites: Seventeen Driving Tours with Directions and the Full Story, 2d ed.

by E.J. Fleming
Hollywood Death and Scandal Sites: Seventeen Driving Tours with Directions and the Full Story, 2d ed.

Hollywood Death and Scandal Sites: Seventeen Driving Tours with Directions and the Full Story, 2d ed.

by E.J. Fleming

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For more than a century, people have been drawn to sites of tragedy involving the rich, beautiful and notorious of Hollywood. Tourists at the center of the movie universe flock to Rudolph Valentino’s grave, the house where Marilyn Monroe died, the “O.J. murders” condo, the hotel where John Belushi overdosed, a myriad of haunted mansions. In its extensively researched and enlarged second edition, this book tells the stories of these locations and makes finding them simple. Seventeen driving tours include more than 650 sites. Each tour covers a specific area, from Hollywood and the Sunset Strip to Brentwood and Malibu, covering the entire Los Angeles basin. Concise, easy-to-follow directions are given to each location with 145 photos and the fascinating story behind each stop.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781476618500
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 10/02/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 408
File size: 20 MB
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About the Author

E.J. Fleming has been researching Hollywood for decades and has penned biographies of Carole Landis and Wallace Reid, among other books. He lives in the country in Connecticut.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 6
Foreword by Scott Michaels 8
Introduction 10
Tour 1—Old Hollywoodland, Beachwood and Los Feliz 13
Tour 2—Hollywood Central, West Hollywood and Outpost Estates 46
Tour 3—Cahuenga and Laurel Canyons 63
Tour 4—The Sunset Strip 83
Tour 5—Fairfax, West Hollywood and Lower Beverly Hills 95
Tour 6—Hancock Park 108
Tour 7—Beverly Hills, Coldwater Canyon 116
Tour 8—Beverly Hills, Benedict Canyon 131
Tour 9—Beverly Hills Flats, South of Sunset 164
Tour 10—Bel Air 192
Tour 11—Westwood and Century City 212
Tour 12—Brentwood and West L.A. 228
Tour 13—The Palisades 245
Tour 14—Santa Monica and Malibu 260
Tour 15—San Fernando Valley 275
Tour 16—Far Western San Fernando Valley 297
Tour 17—Locations Off Maps 302
Background Notes on the Tours 329
Bibliography 354
Index 370
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