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The tragic and mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of Elizabeth Short, or the Black Dahlia, and Marilyn Monroe ripped open Hollywood's glitzy façade, exposing the city's ugly underbelly of corruption, crime, and murder. These two spectacular dead bodies, one found dumped and posed in a vacant lot in January 1947, the other found dead in her home in August 1962, bookend this new history of Hollywood. Short and Monroe are just two of the many left for dead after the collapse of the studio system, Hollywood's awkward adolescence when the company town's many competing subcultures-celebrities, moguls, mobsters, gossip mongers, industry wannabes, and desperate transients-came into frequent contact and conflict. Hard-Boiled Hollywood focuses on the lives lost at the crossroads between a dreamed-of Los Angeles and the real thing after the Second World War, where reality was anything but glamorous.";

Crime --- City crime --- Crime and criminals --- Crimes --- Delinquency --- Felonies --- Misdemeanors --- Urban crime --- Social problems --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Criminal law --- Criminals --- Criminology --- Transgression (Ethics) --- History --- Social aspects --- 20th century american history. --- 20th century film industry. --- american actress. --- black dahlia. --- blonde bombshell. --- celebrity. --- collapse of the studio system. --- corruption. --- crime. --- cultural intrigue. --- dead bodies. --- elizabeth short. --- film industry. --- film. --- found murdered. --- graphic nature of the crime. --- history of hollywood. --- hollywood. --- los angeles. --- marilyn monroe. --- mobsters. --- movies. --- murder. --- mutilated and bisected at the waist. --- national attention. --- popular culture icon. --- popular sex symbol. --- postwar los angeles. --- unsolved murder.