Scotty bowers, male madame to the stars, is dead at 96. My adventures in hollywood and the secret sex live of the stars bowers, scotty, friedberg, lionel on. My adventures in hollywood and the secret sex lives. After serving in the marines during world war ii, he headed for hollywood and landed a job as a gas station attendant which is where he met director george cukor, who invited bowers to his home. He says at one point he wrote the book to show that some of these. Bowers makes many claims about the sex lives of many people, most of whom were associated with the hollywood movie industry during that. Tyrnauer continued to hear about this enigmatic gas station on hollywood boulevard from others, and he tucked it away in his brain as a good story to pursue someday. Scotty bowers, 88, at his hollywood hills bungalow, where he lives with his wife. A sexual underground surfaces in scotty and the secret. Bowers colorful life saw him work as a marine and gas station attendant before meeting the oscarnominated actor walter pidgeon, who paved the way for the young bowers to become a sexual. The book, 360 pages hardbound, is a nostalgic look at a century plus of gas stations. He came upon references to bowers in arcane books about hollywood from the 1970s, or contemporaneous accounts that would match specific details from a story bowers had told him. Pcm is pleased to announce the impending release of one hundred years of gas stations by wayne henderson.
At a certain point, anyone who reads bowers book or sees this film has to. The man who sold sex to the stars the documentary about scotty bowers, who procured samesex lovers for many of hollywood s biggest stars, skimps on. Scotty bowers, sexual matchmaker in the golden age of. In 1950 bowers stopped working at the service station and began working as a party bartender, while continuing his sexual services. Starkweathers first victim was gas station attendant robert colvert on november 30, 1957. The gas station was the portal that eventually took me into an exclusive world where highclass sex was everything, bowers wrote in full service. My adventures in hollywood and the secret sex lives of the stars, written with lionel friedberg, is valentine. He found work in 1946 at a gas station on hollywood boulevard, and later contended. A new documentary shines a light on the man who claims he ran a gas station on hollywood boulevard and van ness as a brothel for closeted hollywood stars.
Sex fixer to the stars lifts lid on scandal in hollywood s golden age. Marine, gas station attendant and bartender, bowers known as hollywood s male madame claimed to have slept with. Seen by millions across the globe in an iconic photograph of a hollywood legend. The film follows bower, a former sex worker, as he describes his wild life running a brothel out of a gas station during hollywood s golden age. As well as a titillating catalogue of sexual intrigue, the book is designed to. My adventures in hollywood and the secret sex live of the stars. Colvert refused to sell him a stuffed toy for his girlfriend, caril ann fugate. Bowers quickly found work as an attendant in 1946 at the richfield oil gas station at 5777 hollywood. If you were sexually adventurous in 1940s hollywood, you needed to know gas station attendant scotty bowers. Carl enjoys passing the time by discussing movie trivia with his coworkers and even his customers. Shortly after i first got here i worked there as a young pump attendant. My adventures in hollywood and the secret sex lives of the stars. S cotty bowers was a 23yearold petrol station attendant on hollywood boulevard when the actor walter pidgeon pulled up to the pump and asked the dimpled blond to jump in his lincoln.
Bowers got a job pumping gas at the corner of van ness avenue. Bowers makes many claims about the sex lives of many people, most of whom were associated with the hollywood movie industry during that period. If youre looking for an unvarnished account of the closeted shenanigans of hollywood s golden ageand a good trashy read at the same timethen full service is the full enchilada. The date would look like just another gas station attendant, who would appear to be getting inside the car only to clean the inside of the windshield. The story behind scotty and the secret history of hollywood. He was a gas station attendant in hollywood after returning from world war ii. He is surprised when madec, a wealthy lawyer, asks him to be his guide in a hunting trip in the desert. According to his memoir, his sexual career began in 1946 while he was working as an attendant at the richfield oil gas station located at 5777 hollywood boulevard, at the corner of van ness avenue. Secret history doc explores a hollywood gigolos double life.
Hollywood fixer opens his little black book the new york. He has an interest in sexy women and movies featuring sexy women. They were broke and bored, and had little to lose, and soon, as bowers writes in his book, full service. But regardless of whether the people hes outed were actually gaybiliked hookups with a gas station attendant, the book is actually quite boring. Vidal started to describe a gas station on hollywood boulevard when tyrnauer realized he had heard about scotty before. My adventures in hollywood and the secret sex lives of the stars is a tellall book about the sex lives of hollywood stars from the late 1940s to the early 1980s by scotty bowers, with lionel friedberg as a contributing author. Kane brown mourns drummer, kenny dixon, who died in a car accident after his time in the marines, he moved to hollywood. Anne sebba on duchess of windsor, scotty bowers on himself.
My adventures in hollywood and the secret sex live of the stars bowers, scotty, friedberg. Scottys, the infamous gas station brothel of 1940s. Only one man shakes his confidence, an anonymous night gas station attendant, who like socrates, keeps questioning every assumption in his life. Scotty bowers, whose geewhiz, scurrilous hollywood memoir, written with lionel friedberg, is called full service, performed tireless sexual services while working as a gas station attendant. My adventures in hollywood and the secret sex live of. With the possible exception of the gas station attendants. Scotty and the secret history of hollywood 2017 is a. From the first official station in 19 and even some pre stations all the way through the present, the gas station in every form is included. Now 95, scotty bowers was procurer to the stars, operating out of a richfield gas station on hollywood. Enraged, starkweather shot him before robbing the gas station and whatever cash could be found on colvert. Full service is not only a fascinating chronicle of hollywoods sexual.
Set between the big movie studios and the luxe homes where the stars lived, a richfield gas station on hollywood boulevard was a hopping tinseltown place in the postwar years of the 40s and 50s. Scotty and the secret history of hollywood spills the. When madec accidentally shoots a prospector, he is fearful. A sexual underground surfaces in scotty and the secret history of hollywood scotty bowers, now 95, facilitated the sexual proclivities of major film actors during hollywood s golden age and. Handsome, polite and reliable, the freshly discharged marine, then in his 20s, was the u. It seems that, disguised in a bandanna and dark glasses, marilyn monroe and one of her pals stopped at a gas station. They both used a handsome young gas station attendant for sex. Earlier this year, i read and enjoyed scotty bowers memoir full service, wherein he recounts his time working at a gas station attendant in hollywood and doubling as a. Inside the shocking and captivating new documentary about. Carl is the manager of the local gas station and convenience store, the quahog minimart.
The secret history of gay hollywood finally gets its movie. One was as a gas station attendant at richfield oil station at the intersection of hollywood boulevard and van ness. Scotty looks at gas station owner behind gay hookups in. Apply to gas station attendant, gas attendant and more. The destination for fans and followers worldwide as if on pilgrimages to a religious site. He began working as a gas station attendant on hollywood boulevard at the age of 23, and almost immediately, his new role as a hollywood sexual fixer took off. My adventures in hollywood and the secret sex lives of the stars, my gas station became. My adventures in hollywood and the secret sex lives of the stars is a tellall. Ben campbell, a twentytwoyearold gas station attendant in a small desert town, is looking to make some extra money. Director matt tyrnauer, left, with scotty bowers, star of scotty and the secret history of hollywood which details the story of scotty bowers, who says he ran a gay and bisexual prostitution. Marine and gas station attendant turned erotic fixer to the stars. Sex fixer to the stars lifts lid on scandal in hollywoods. Why gore vidal loved scotty bowers, hollywoods bestknown. He found work in 1946 at a gas station on hollywood boulevard, and later.