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Newly discharged from the Marines after World War II, Scotty Bowers arrived in Hollywood in 1946. Young, charismatic, and strikingly handsome, he quickly caught the eye of many of the town's stars and starlets. He began sleeping with some himself, and connecting others with his coterie of young, attractive, and sexually free-spirited friends. His own lovers included Edith Piaf, Spencer Tracy, Vivien Leigh, Cary Grant, and the abdicated King of England Edward VIII, and he arranged tricks or otherwise crossed paths with Tennessee Williams, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price, Katharine Hepburn, Rita Hayworth, Errol Flynn, Gloria Swanson, Noël Coward, Mae West, James Dean, Rock Hudson and J. Edgar Hoover, to name but a few. Full Service is not only a fascinating chronicle of Hollywood's sexual underground, but also exposes the hypocrisy of the major studios, who used actors to propagate a myth of a conformist, sexually innocent America, knowing full well that their stars' personal lives differed dramatically from this family-friendly mold. As revelation-filled as Hollywood Babylon, Full Service provides a lost chapter in the history of the sexual revolution and is a testament to a man who provided sex, support, and affection to countless people.

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"A startling memoir.-- ""Gore Vidal"" ""A jaw-dropping firsthand account of closeted life in Hollywood during the '40s and '50s. The wholesome image of the postwar American family was acted, written, directed, and designed by people for whom such a life was never possible and Bowers writes about their pain and brilliance with the childlike wonder of Chauncey Gardiner."" -- ""Griffin Dunne, American actor, film producer, and director"" ""A ribald memoir...Full Service at the very least highlights how sharply the rules of engagement for reporting celebrity gossip have changed...It's much harder to keep details as salacious as the ones Mr. Bowers outlines under wraps."" -- ""New York Times"" ""I have known Scotty Bowers for the better part of a century. I'm so pleased that he has finally decided to tell his story to the world...Scotty doesn't lie--the stars sometimes do--and he knows everybody."" -- ""Gore Vidal"""

A startling memoir.-- ""Gore Vidal"" ""A jaw-dropping firsthand account of closeted life in Hollywood during the '40s and '50s. The wholesome image of the postwar American family was acted, written, directed, and designed by people for whom such a life was never possible and Bowers writes about their pain and brilliance with the childlike wonder of Chauncey Gardiner."" -- ""Griffin Dunne, American actor, film producer, and director"" ""A ribald memoir...Full Service at the very least highlights how sharply the rules of engagement for reporting celebrity gossip have changed...It's much harder to keep details as salacious as the ones Mr. Bowers outlines under wraps."" -- ""New York Times"" ""I have known Scotty Bowers for the better part of a century. I'm so pleased that he has finally decided to tell his story to the world...Scotty doesn't lie--the stars sometimes do--and he knows everybody."" -- ""Gore Vidal""

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Scotty Bowers is an ex-Marine who served in the Pacific Theater, including Iwo Jima, during World War II. He settled in Hollywood in 1945, where his first job was in a gas station before he became a bartender. He still works today as a bartender for private functions in Hollywood and lives in the Hollywood Hills. Lionel Friedberg is an award-winning documentary film director who has written or produced films for Animal Planet, CBS, PBS, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel and National Geographic. He has 18 credits as Director of Photography, and has worked all over the world on both dramatic and nonfiction productions. Lionel Friedberg is an award-winning documentary film director who has written or produced films for Animal Planet, CBS, PBS, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel and National Geographic. He has 18 credits as Director of Photography, and has worked all over the world on both dramatic and nonfiction productions. Johnny Heller, winner of numerous Earphones and Audie Awards, was named a ""Golden Voice"" by AudioFile magazine in 2019. He has been a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award winner from 2008 through 2013 and he has been named a top voice of 2008 and 2009 and selected as one of the Top 50 Narrators of the Twentieth Century by AudioFile magazine.

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