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Synopsis
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.
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About the Author
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 and '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. His earlier published works include the popular histories of hardboiled literature; Danger is My Business and Over My Dead Body, and a study of film noir, The Book of Noir, and his writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the Guardian, the Telegraph, and Sight and Sound.
Review
Praise for Ava Gardner:
Super. ―USA Today
Irresistible and finally heartbreaking. ―The Newark Star-Ledger
Gardner's career, hard drinking and screen-worthy love affairs are all chronicled in Server's page-turner prose, doing justice to one of cinema's most beautiful faces. ―Publishers Weekly
A no-holds-barred view of a larger-than-life star. ―Booklist
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- PublisherEbury Press
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 0753522314
- ISBN 13 9780753522318
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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