The dishy tales of Scotty Bowers, a former Marine who lands in Hollywood after World War II and becomes the legendary escort and sexual procurer to many of the key players in the '40s-'50s Hollywood-movie colony. Several years in the making, the stories are deliciously scandalous, and sordid, and Scotty's firsthand accounts reveal a different side of the Dream Factory from the one the studios so carefully manufactured in their heyday, with Bowers at the epicenter as a kind of benevolent matchmaker. Matt Tyrnauer’s (Valentino: The Last Emperor) cinema vérité documentary is a secret history of Hollywood in the pre-Stonewall era, and a bittersweet portrait of a hoarder and compulsive workaholic who flew under the radar for most of his 95 years. (2017, 98 min, DCP)
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The dishy tales of Scotty Bowers, a former Marine who lands in Hollywood after World War II and becomes the legendary escort and sexual procurer to many of the key players in the '40s-'50s Hollywood-movie colony. Several years in the making, the stories are deliciously scandalous, and sordid, and Scotty's firsthand accounts reveal a different side of the Dream Factory from the one the studios so carefully manufactured in their heyday, with Bowers at the epicenter as a kind of benevolent matchmaker. Matt Tyrnauer’s (Valentino: The Last Emperor) cinema vérité documentary is a secret history of Hollywood in the pre-Stonewall era, and a bittersweet portrait of a hoarder and compulsive workaholic who flew under the radar for most of his 95 years. (2017, 98 min, DCP)
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