Black Sunset: Hollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal and Raging Egos

This a hilarious memoir of Clancy Sigal's escapades as a young Hollywood agent on the Sunset Strip, peddling writers and actors in a blacklist-crazed "golden age" movie industry of the 1950s. Atom bomb tests light up the night sky, and everyone is either naming names or getting named in the McCarthy witch hunt. By day a fast-talking salesman, at night he's the point person of a small circle of anarchistic oddballs. He's dogged by two FBI agents who want to be set up with starlets and have a screen test. They trail him as he goes from studio to studio hustling clients like Humphrey Bogart, Donna Reed, Jack Palance, Peter Lorre and Stanwyck. Barred from a studio he brazenly uses a bolt cutter to break through the chainlink fence to make a deal.

Black Sunset's riproaring ribald style belongs to a hardboiled school that includes Elmore Leonard and Raymond Chandler. He is one of the few remaining witnesses and reporters of this absurd and terrifying time.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Soft Skull
Published: 12/13/2016
ISBN: 9781593766573
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2016
Booklist 12/01/2016 pg. 8