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The Man Who Seduced Hollywood

The Life and Loves of Greg Bautzer, Tinseltown's Most Powerful Lawyer

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In Hollywood history, no other lawyer has achieved the movie star–like fame and glamour that Greg Bautzer enjoyed. This revealing biography tells, for the first time, the amazing story of a self-made man who for 50 years used his irresistible charm and prodigious legal talent to dominate the courtrooms, boardrooms, and bedrooms of Hollywood. Columnists of the 1930s through 1950s dubbed him "Hollywood Bachelor Number One," and for good reason. His long-term relationships and momentary conquests were a who's who of leading ladies. Through exclusive interviews with those who knew him best, the book uncovers the inner workings of not only Bautzer the high-powered Hollywood lawyer—whose clients included billionaire Howard Hughes—but Bautzer the man.

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      April 15, 2013
      Greg Bautzer was freshly graduated from law school in 1936, when he decided he wanted to become a Hollywood celebrity lawyer (at a time when there weren't four or five celebrity attorneys for every actual celebrity). He did it, too, almost immediately forging a profitable relationship with Twentieth CenturyFox chairman Joe Schenk. As Gladstone tells it in this unusual take on Hollywood's golden age, Bautzer cultivated an image as a dashing, eligible bachelor, an image designed to gain him maximum exposure in the high-flying circles where he hoped to find clients. The strategy worked, as over the years, he numbered some of show business' biggest players among his clients, not to mention the world's most famous recluse, Howard Hughes. Bautzer got so big that he is widely considered to have single-handedly masterminded Kirk Kerkorian's hostile takeover of MGM in the late 1960s. In his time, he was as famous, as widely photographed, and as talked about as many big-name celebrities. This is a very good book about a very famous man who is now, sadly, almost entirely forgotten.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2013, American Library Association.)

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