The Fixers: Eddie Mannix, Howard Strickling and the MGM Publicity Machine
"Eddie Mannix and Howard Strickling are virtually unknown outside of Hollywood and little remembered even there, but as general manager and head of publicity for MGM, they were lords of the star-studded universe of Hollywood's golden age from the 1920s through the 1940s. When MGM stars found themselves in trouble, it was Eddie and Howard who solved their problems, hid their crimes, and kept their secrets. They were "the Fixers."" "Through a complex web of contacts, Mannix and Strickling...
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"Eddie Mannix and Howard Strickling are virtually unknown outside of Hollywood and little remembered even there, but as general manager and head of publicity for MGM, they were lords of the star-studded universe of Hollywood's golden age from the 1920s through the 1940s. When MGM stars found themselves in trouble, it was Eddie and Howard who solved their problems, hid their crimes, and kept their secrets. They were "the Fixers."" "Through a complex web of contacts, Mannix and Strickling covered up some of the most notorious crimes and scandals in Hollywood history, keeping stars out of jail and their indiscretions out of the papers. They handled problems as diverse as the murder of Paul Bern (husband of Jean Harlow), the studio-directed drug addictions of Judy Garland, the murder of Ted Healy (creator of the Three Stooges) at the hands of Wallace Beery, and the adoption by an unmarried Loretta Young of her own child, fathered by a married Clark Gable." Through exhaustive research and interviews with contemporaries, this dual biography describes how a mob-related New Jersey laborer and the quiet son of a grocer became the most powerful men at the biggest studio in the world.
Prologue - call Mr. Strickling31The movies find Hollywood52Building the Emerald City193Omens, and the twenties end roaring534The 1930s : the golden age of trouble875The 1940s : war inside and out1896The 1950s : relics and the last big secret232Postscript - fade out275
