Tinseltown Gangsters - The Rise and Decline of the Mob in Hollywood

Like sharks to blood in the water, the mob arrived in Hollywood greedy and ready to tear away huge chunks of cash. Opportunistic mobsters saw labor unions as the means for muscling into the movie industry and extorting millions of dollars from studio bosses.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. The First Shark: Joseph Kennedy
Chapter 2. Dream City Gangster
Chapter 3. Little Tough Guy
Chapter 4. Willie Bioff: Solid Gold Extortionist
Chapter 5. Handsome Johnny Rosselli: Smooth as Silk
Chapter 6. Harry Cohn: White Fang
Chapter 7. The Death of the Ice Cream Blonde
Chapter 8. Sidney Korshak: The Outfit's Fixer in Hollywood
Chapter 9. The Cotton Club Murders
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

By Jeffrey Sussman

Summary

Like sharks to blood in the water, the mob arrived in Hollywood greedy and ready to tear away huge chunks of cash. Opportunistic mobsters saw labor unions as the means for muscling into the movie industry and extorting millions of dollars from studio bosses.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey Sussman, Sussman Jeffrey
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2024
• EAN: 9781538173565
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-7356-5
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Los Angeles, True Crime, California, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, 20th Century, TRUE CRIME / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Organized crime, History of the Americas