Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood (73 page)

Despite all her setbacks, Gibby never quite gave up hope, keeping head shots on hand even into middle age, just in case the studios ever called.
COURTESY RAY LONG

Gibby’s last home, hidden behind overgrown foliage in the Hollywood Hills.
COURTESY RAY LONG

Adolph Zukor lived to be 103, never revealing all he had done to contain the scandals of the 1920s.
PHOTOFEST

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CREDITS

Cover photographs: author’s collection;

Photofest (William Desmond Taylor); Los Angeles Public Library (street)

Cover design by Milan Bozic

COPYRIGHT

TINSELTOWN
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ISBN: 978-0-06-224216-7

EPub Edition October 2014 ISBN 9780062242228

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