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Is Scotty Bowers Telling the Truth About Hepburn and Tracy?
Is Scotty Bowers, the famous Hollywood pimp telling the facts about Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn? Here's a confirming story
In Scotty Bowers came out with a book called Full Service which described his experiences as one of the greatest pimps in Hollywood history. Scotty worked out of a Richfield gas station on Melrose in Los Angeles. You can still see where it was, but the station was pulled down years ago. Here's a picture of it below:
The guide is Scotty's life story written with a co-author. He has not hesitated to name names in frank and shocking stories about his sexual adventures with both male and female stars and celebrities. He also related how he procured women for people like Desi Arnaz (Lucille hated him for it). In the novel he recounts how he set up men and women for bisexual orgies with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Many famous movie stars were outed as his clients and sexual partners; Tyrone Power, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott and even Bob Hope. Bowers was also involved with director George Cukor and composer Cole Porter. He describes heterose
Scotty Bowers, &#;Male Madame&#; to the Stars, Dies at 96
Scotty Bowers, whose explicit, best-selling memoir revealed a covert realm of Golden Age Hollywood sexuality, died Sunday of natural causes at his home in Laurel Canyon, documentary director Matt Tyrnauer told The Hollywood Reporter. He was
The former U.S. Marine and gas station attendant turned erotic fixer to the stars (including, he said, Katharine Hepburn and Rock Hudson) was the subject of an acclaimed documentary, Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood.
Bowers helped keep the (often queer) secrets of agree players who were bound by morality clauses during the heyday of the studio system. His existence as a sex worker, servicing the entertainment industry in the post-World War II period, challenged Hollywood&#;s baseline-heterosexual conception of itself.
&#;His story, which he waited to tell until he was in his behind 80s — and for years refused to say at all — forms an astonishing counter-narrative of Hollywood and exposes the mores of the film capital in a second when gay men and women were forced to be sexual outlaws and were publicly shunned and often persecuted, or at least forced to reside d
The Secret History of Hollywood's Golden Age Gas Station Hustler, Scotty Bowers
Picture a s gas station that doubles as a pickup spot, complete with clandestine hetero and homosexual encounters, a trailer out assist for secret rendez-vous, and young, strapping men offering their “services” for $20 apiece. That simply sounds like a story too juicy to be right. Well, not if you’ve heard of Scotty Bowers.
In the Golden Age of Hollywood, Bowers, an Illinois native, arranged sexual assignations (both gay and straight) for some of the world’s biggest stars. Ponder everyone from Katherine Hepburn to Cary Grant to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. And he did it from the gas station where he worked, right on Hollywood Boulevard.
In the fresh Netflix series Hollywood, we meet a character named Ernie, played by Dylan McDermott, who conducts similar business out of the “Golden Tip Gas Station.”
In Hollywood, Raymond Ainsley (Darren Criss), Archie Coleman (Jeremy Pope), Jack Castello (David Corenswet), and Rock Hudson (Jake Picking) state for duty at the fictional Golden Tip Gas Station.
Hollywood provides a revisionist history of the Golden Age of Cinema, with producer Ryan
Hollywood's secret history: Scotty Bowers on sex and stars in the Golden Era
Scotty Bowers was a year-old petrol station attendant on Hollywood Boulevard when the actor Walter Pidgeon pulled up to the pump and asked the dimpled blond to jump in his Lincoln. It would be the ride of his life. Pidgeon was gay, claims Bowers in his autobiography Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars, and that afternoon they became lovers. Bowers himself transcended labels. Years later, he startled sexologist Dr Alfred Kinsey by checking off every sex perform on his list (and took him to orgies to prove it). Guys, girls, spouses, kings, consorts – and a three-way with Ava Gardner and Lana Turner. Bowers had done it all.
“[Kinsey] came looking for me,” says Bowers, now 95, on a hot afternoon in a Hollywood courtyard apartment. “Things he thought unachievable, I came up with.” With his devilish sky eyes and thick colorless hair, it is effortless to picture why he was popular. He burns with energy, as though he spent his retirement stoking gossip he vowed he wouldn’t spill while his lovers were alive. J Edgar Hoover? “A drag.” Vivien Leigh? “A hot, hot lady.” Wallis Simp
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