HOLLYWOOD WOW WOW: THE PICTURES

A book of two hundred original movie stills, glass slides, lobby cards and other images illustrating the true Hollywood love story, "HOLLYWOOD WOW WOW" also on NOOK. These beautiful and captivating pictures show the viewing audience Shirley Mason and Bernard Durning's--"Hollywood's Most-Devoted Couple"-- silent movie experience. Along with Shirley's sister, Viola Dana, Buster Keaton, Lon Chaney, Dustin Farnum, and other stars in scenes from awesome movies of the silent era when they spoke with their expressions. Readers se for themselves why Bernard Durning was "The First John Wayne" and why William Wellman based "A STAR IS BORN" on him. It's a personal discovery by the author of his grand uncle in Hollywood who walked on the wings of airplanes for Douglas Fairbanks, knocked the heck out of Jack Dempsey, and captured the heart of Hollywood. Also featured are his older brother Harry M. Durning who started the NY GIANTS, sold RKO to Howard Hughes, and overruled Josph P. Kennedy on Greta Garbo-- as Colector of Customs for the Port of New York in the Roosevelt Administration. The photographs of Shirley Mason and Viola Dana are especially amazing as they each starred in a hundred movies each. Their real name was Flugrath and a third sister, Edna Flugrath, was a big star in England at Twickenham Studios where Alfred Hitchcock's wife, Alma, was script girl, so he was informed by Edna's early movies.This book is jut the beginning of a Flugrathian Rennaissance in American Culture!