Handsome Johnny

Lee Server (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2025
Virgin Books (Verlag)
9780753522318 (ISBN)

Infos

Johnny Rosselli's story is the stuff of a thousand pulp fictions, tabloid headlines and unsolved mysteries. He was the Mob's 'man in Hollywood,' and the last protege of Al Capone. In Handsome Johnny, Lee Server vividly brings to life a man who was involved with the right and wrong people in the powerful world of entertainment, from the glamorous to the business side. He was close with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Jean Harlow and Marilyn Monroe.

Moving from Chicago in the '20's, to Hollywood in the '30's, Havana and Vegas in the '40's, and finally being forced to seek solace in Miami, Johnny Rosselli did not live a quiet life and with Server's creative non-fiction techniques, Handsome Johnny comes to life as vibrantly as the best fiction. From Rosselli's humble origins in Italy to his violent death in Miami some 70 years later, this is a great telling of the lesser known tale of one of America's most notorious gangsters.

Autor

Lee Server is the author of the best-selling and critically acclaimed biographies Robert Mitchum- Baby, I Don't Care (Faber) and Ava Gardner- Love is Nothing (Bloomsbury). Robert Mitchum was named a Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times, 'The film biography of the year' by the Sunday Times and Book of the Year by Uncut magazine. A graduate of New York University film school, Server has worked as a screenwriter, documentary maker and journalist.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.5.2025
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 153 x 234 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• ISBN-13: 9780753522318 / 9780753522318
• Zustand: Neuware