In case you just tuned in, I’m doing a little fact-checking as I go through Scotty Bowers’ “Full Service.” This will be fairly tedious except to a research drudge.
Before we go any further, we need to take a little detour. Scotty Bowers is about to describe his first Hollywood encounter – with Walter Pidgeon – so we ought to see what Pidgeon was up to at the time.
Unfortunately, no one appears to have written a book about Pidgeon, so we’re left with doing our own pick and shovel work. This may be all for the best, because the Hollywood biography/autobiography is a notoriously unreliable genre anyway. For example, anyone digging into the life of Carole Landis will only be badly misinformed by Rex Harrison’s autobiography,
Fact-Checking “Full Service”: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10
The photos are Adams in his documentary mode and are not like the bravura images of Half Dome for which he is famous. The pictures document workers leaving the Lockheed plant and people’s daily lives in a trailer park.
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