The Original Version of the Cult Classic from the 70s Back In Print At Last! Scorching, bizarre, and flamboyant, a strikingly beautiful blond hustler, Numie Chase, comes to the searing heat of Tortuga, southernmost point in the Continental US—the end of the line. There, he arouses passions in six decadent but vulnerable people, whose lives mesh together under the blood-red sun. There are those who've suggested that Darwin Porter's Butterflies is a potboiling revision of Sweet Bird of Youth. Nevertheless, I'd walk the waterfront for Numie any day. —Tennessee Williams. We know from the beginning that we're getting into a hotbed that has morbid fascination for potential readers. Butterflies in Heat evolves, in fact, into one massive melee of malevolence, vendetta, and e-v-i-l, stunningly absorbing alone for its sheer and unrelenting exploration of the lower depths. —Bestsellers. How does Darwin Porter's garden grow? Only in the moonlight, and only at midnight, when...

After Betty Grable but before there was Marilyn, America's penchant for popcorn blondes focused on LANA, the movie star who had it all: Looks to die for, money to burn, the romantic adulation of the world, and lovers who included the era's most desirable men: Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, Errol Flynn, Tyrone Power, Howard Hughes, Lex "Tarzan" Barker, Frank Sinatra, and many, many others. Forever known as "the Sweater Girl" because of body movements in an early film that were later denounced by censors as obscene, she played a pivotal role in a murder scandal that rocked the world. LANA TURNER—Hearts and Diamonds Take All is the publishing industry's ultimate overview of the streak of bombshell sex that helped win World War II, LANA TURNER, the ultimate movie star.

Written to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the violent death of a star who lived fast, died young, and became a legend, this book was compiled after fifty years of input from James Dean's friends, lovers (male and female), and enemies. Much of the information within it has never been published before. New, uncensored, and unauthorized, it's the first comprehensive biography of the actor ever published, a groundbreaking, one-of-a-kind overview of the widely marketed yet widely misunderstood symbol of the inarticulated rage of America's rebellious youth.

Before she died, Elizabeth Taylor claimed that previous biographers had revealed "only half of my story, but I can't tell the other half because I'd get sued." In response to that challenge, Blood Moon presents history’s most comprehensive compilation of the unpublished—until now—secrets of Dame Elizabeth. With photos, this meaty and startling book offers a juicy feast of till-now untold tales about the 20th century’s most deadlinegenerating actress, relayed with empathy and brutal candor. ### About the Author New York City resident Darwin Porter has archived information about Dame Elizabeth since he first interviewed her in Miami for his college newspaper. Since then, after a lifetime of analyzing and cross-referencing her every move, he's become a world-class expert in her behind-the-scenes dramas and showbiz ironies. Danforth Prince, formerly associated with The Frommer Guides and The New York Times, is co-author of this guide to the serial embarrassments of the world's most fabulous and sophisticated Dame.

Whereas Humphrey Bogart is always at the top of any list of the Entertainment Industry's most famous actors, very little is known about how he clawed his way to stardom from Broadway to Hollywood. This radical expansion of one of Darwin Porter's pioneering biographies begins with Bogart's origins as the child of wealthy (morphine-addicted) parents in New York City, then examines the scandals, love affairs, breakthrough successes, and failures that launched Bogart on the road to becoming an American icon. Drawn from original interviews with friends and foes who knew a lot about what lay beneath his trenchcoat, this expose covers Bogart's life from his birth in 1899 till his marriage to Lauren Bacall in 1944. It includes details about behind-the-scenes dramas associated with three mysterious marriages, and films such as The Petrified Forest, The Maltese Falcon, High Sierra, and Casablanca. Read all about the debut and formative years of the actor who influenced many generations. . .