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A wildly entertaining look at Hollywood’s glamorous golden age via the cinematic life of Howard Hughes and the actresses who encountered him—and suffered the consequences
Howard Hughes’s reputation as a director and producer of films unusually defined by sex dovetails with his image as one of the most prolific womanizers of the twentieth century. The promoter of bomb-shell actresses such as Jean Harlow and Jane Russell, Hughes supposedly included among his off-screen conquests many of the most famous actresses of the era such as Billie Dove, Katharine Hepburn, Ava Gardner, Ginger Rogers, and Lana Turner. His marketing of male desire helped produce an incredibly influential, sexualized image of womanhood that has impacted culture ever since. But there was a price . . .
In Seduction, Karina Longworth draws upon an unprecedented trove of archival sources, diaries, and documents to produce a land-mark work of Hollywood history that is as effervescent as it is relevant. Seduction is not only about the murkier shades of golden-age Hollywood, but the ripples that still slither across today’s entertainment industry and our culture in general.