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The Fixers - Eddie Mannix, Howard Strickling and the MGM Publicity Machine (Paperback)
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The Fixers - Eddie Mannix, Howard Strickling and the MGM Publicity Machine (Paperback)
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Eddie Mannix and Howard Strickling are virtually unknown outside of
Hollywood and little-remembered even there, but as General Manager
and Head of Publicity for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, they lorded
over all the stars in Hollywood's golden age from the 1920s through
the 1940s - including legends like Garbo, Dietrich, Gable and
Garland. When MGM stars found themselves in trouble, it was Eddie
and Howard who took care of them - solved their problems, hid their
crimes, and kept their secrets. They were ""the Fixers."" At a time
when image meant everything and the stars were worth millions to
the studios that owned them, Mannix and Strickling were the most
important men at MGM. Through a complex web of contacts in every
arena, from reporters and doctors to corrupt police and district
attorneys, they covered up some of the most notorious crimes and
scandals in Hollywood history, keeping stars out of jail and, more
importantly, their names out of the papers. They handled problems
as diverse as the murder of Paul Bern (husband of MGM's biggest
star, Jean Harlow), the studio-directed drug addictions of Judy
Garland, the murder of Ted Healy (creator of The Three Stooges) at
the hands of Wallace Beery, and arranging for an unmarried Loretta
Young to adopt her own child - a child fathered by a married Clark
Gable. Through exhaustive research and interviews with
contemporaries, this is the never-before-told story of Eddie Mannix
and Howard Strickling. The dual biography describes how a
mob-related New Jersey laborer and the quiet son of a grocer became
the most powerful men at the biggest studio in the world.
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