Crowned Heads Author:Thomas Tryon Here are four supreme film stars - four fabulous interlocking lives that will stand as dramatic revelations of the incredible world whose unreal realities Tryon himself witnessed at first hand in his own years as a Hollywood star. — First, Fedora. "The Perfect Work of Art." — Her enigma unriddled-the greatest, the most beautiful, the longest-reign... more »ing royalty of them all: her career spanning the 20's. the 30's, the 40's, the 50's, her glorious face untouched by time.....
Lorna. "The All-American Cookie"-sexy, appealing, climbing from cheapie gangster flicks to major roles; and slipping, most recently TV's Perkies Girl. Many jobs behind her, many ment, much trouble. Now she has come to a secluded resort to find-to heal-herself...
Bobbitt. For 10 years "America's Fantasy Child," the adorable kiddie star of Bobbitt's Flying Carpetn, Bobbitt's Lucky Day, etc., etc.--Top Box Office nationwide. Now he is in his thirties, still adorable. But today the Bobbitt movies don't even turn up on TV for matinees. And Bobbitt himself-does he exist at all?
Willie. For decades a worldwide symbol of elegance and wit. Now he is alone in his showplace Hollywood villa-his precious "Bee" dead, her ashes in a golden urn on the mantel-mourning the past. Until suddenly, fatally, with a knock on the door, the future breaks in.« less