Dying for Publicity: The Doris Dore Story
“The department is sick of attempts in Hollywood to attain newspaper mention by so-called ‘publicity gags’,” said an exasperated Edward Slaughter, LAPD captain, in 1927. The cinema capitol had already dealt with such a torrential deluge of aspirants that it was forced to lasso them in with the establishment of Central Casting in 1925. The […]