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Hollywood's Most Wanted(TM): The Top Ten Book of Lucky Breaks, Prima Donnas, Box Office Bombs, and Other Oddities [Paperback]

Floyd Conner (Author)
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Most Wanted(TM) September 1, 2002
Warren Beatty’s first job was as a rat catcher in a Washington, D.C., theater. When Jack Nicholson first arrived in Hollywood, he sorted fan mail for the cartoon characters Tom and Jerry. Alan Ladd was discovered operating a hotdog stand outside a studio. For his fifty-fifth birthday, John Barrymore was given a naked woman wrapped in cellophane. George Hamilton used to throw away his socks after wearing them only once. Tough guy Charles Bronson was so poor as a kid that he wore his sister’s hand-me-down dresses. Judy Garland was turned down for a role in the Our Gang comedies. Ronald Reagan rejected the role of Rick in Casablanca, later made famous by Humphrey Bogart. Jean Acker locked “the Great Lover,” Rudolph Valentino, out of their honeymoon suite on their wedding night. Errol Flynn had a trick chair in his house with a cushion that when touched became a giant inflatable penis.

The history of Hollywood is filled with the strange, bizarre, and the unbelievable. The seventy lists in Hollywood's Most Wanted™describe in amusing detail Hollywood’s top-ten worst movies, most dreadful performances, biggest bombs, funniest real names, sexiest blonde bombshells, most intriguing mysteries, most audacious publicity stunts, oddest couples, most inauspicious debuts, weirdest pre-acting jobs, most scandalous behavior, strangest deaths, and more.

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Floyd Conner is the author of numerous popular sports books, including Baseball's Most Wanted™, Football's Most Wanted™, and Golf!, which sold more than 150,000 copies. He has been interviewed many times for radio, newspaper, and television and lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.; First Edition edition (September 1, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1574884808
  • ISBN-13: 978-1574884807
  • Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,555,325 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Mistaken fact about Hayley Mills in this book, October 14, 2002
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This review is from: Hollywood's Most Wanted(TM): The Top Ten Book of Lucky Breaks, Prima Donnas, Box Office Bombs, and Other Oddities (Paperback)
On page 138 of this book it claims that British movie star Hayley Mills was 18 in 1966. Wrong! In 1966 Hayley Mills was 19 and then 20. Hayley in fact was born in 1946. For the book's statement to be true she would have to have been born in 1947 or 1948.
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