Detour: A Hollywood Story
New York: Arbor House/ Morrow, 1988. lt. Hardcover. Generally fine (though with some light foxing to the edges of the text block) in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Thirst printing. 334 pp. In one of Hollywood's most shocking and scandalous tragedies---the Good Friday, 1958 slaying of screen goddess Lana Turner's mobster boyfriend Johnny Stompanato by Turner's 14-year old daughter, Cheryl Crane. It wasn't until this book was published, thirty years later, that Cheryl finally revealed what really happened that terrible night. In this autobiographical account, Crane vivdly recalls the pleasures and pains of growing up as a Hollywood "star baby" in the 1940s and 50s when the glamour factories were at a peak. She remembers playing in the backyard with Liza Minelli, being serenaded by Frank Sinatra but also recalls the movie-star mother willing to give everything but her time and a series of "uncles" and stepfathers, some of whom ignored her, others who lied to her---and one who repeatedly raped her. Near Fine / fine. Item #E35597
ISBN: 9780877959380
Price: $12.50