Darwin Porter: 31 books

Book cover of Humphrey Bogart, The Making of a Legend
by Darwin Porter
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005

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...
Book cover of Howard Hughes Hells Angel: Americas Notorious Bisexual Billionaire
by Darwin Porter
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010

“Set amid descriptions of the unimaginable changes that affected America between Hughes's birth in 1905 and his death in 1976, this book gives an insider's perspective about what money can buy and what it can't. Darwin Porter's access to film industry insiders and other Hughes confidants supplied...
Book cover of J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson: Investigating the Sexual Secrets of America's Most Famous Men and Women

J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson: Investigating the Sexual Secrets of America's Most Famous Men and Women

Investigating the Sexual Secrets of America's Most Famous Men and Women

by Darwin Porter
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012

Blood Moon’s newest book examines the hidden sexual secrets of long-time companions, FBI Directors J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson, and their decades-long obsession with the darkest indiscretions of famous Americans. This is history’s first exposure of J. Edgar’s obsession with voyeuristic...
Book cover of Marilyn At Rainbow's End: Sex, Lies, Murder, and the Great Cover-up
by Darwin Porter
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012

As an insight into the American experience of celebrity death on the 50th anniversary of the murder of the Love Goddess, biographer Darwin Porter has compiled, after decades of research, an intriguing roundup of the conspiracies and dark secrets behind Hollywood’s most notorious mystery: Who Killed...
Book cover of Frank Sinatra, The Boudoir Singer: All the Gossip Unfit to Print from the Glory Days of Ol' Blue Eyes

Frank Sinatra, The Boudoir Singer: All the Gossip Unfit to Print from the Glory Days of Ol' Blue Eyes

All the Gossip Unfit to Print from the Glory Days of Ol' Blue Eyes

by Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011

Every time I sing a song, I'm actually making love on stage. Call me 'The Boudoir Singer,' or so claimed Frank Sinatra. The crooner's career spanned more than half a century, earning him millions of fans. His boudoir conquests involved some of the most stunning women of the 20th century. But exactly...
Book cover of Jacko, His Rise and Fall

Jacko, His Rise and Fall

The Social and Sexual History of Michael Jackson

by Darwin Porter
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2009

From famed celebrity biographer Darwin Porter, this is the most honest and journalistically important biography of Michael Jackson ever published, with a roster of literary reviews that outnumber and outclass any other MJ bio on the market. After its original release in 2007, it was widely reviewed...
Book cover of The Secret Life of Humphrey Bogart

The Secret Life of Humphrey Bogart

The Early Years (1899-1931)

by Darwin Porter
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003

This biography shatters myths with a controversial closeup of Bogart at the debut of his career, pre-Casablanca, pre-Bacall, and pre-African Queen, revealing for the first time what was under the trench coat of history's most famous male movie star. Focusing on those mysterious early years when Bogart,...
Book cover of Rock Hudson Erotic Fire
by Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017

Rock Hudson reigned in the late 1950s and early ‘60s as “Hollywood's greatest ambisexual swordsman,” seducing icons who included Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Errol Flynn, Tyrone Power, Joan Crawford, and Lauren Bacall, as well as hundreds of other lesser-known players willing to share some...
Book cover of Paul Newman, The Man Behind the Baby Blues: His Secret Life Exposed
by Darwin Porter
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2009

This is a pioneering and posthumous biography of a charismatic icon of Tinseltown whose rule over the hearts of American moviegoers lasted for more than half a century. It's loaded with never-before-published revelations that look behind the innocent-looking baby blues that enthralled the movie-going...
Book cover of Donald Trump

Donald Trump

The Man Who Would Be King

by Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016

Blood Moon Productions, a feisty independent press known for its occasionally lurid exposés of celebrity secrets, proudly announces the release, in advance of the presidential elections, of a flamboyantly outspoken personal and political biography of DONALD TRUMP.            ...
Book cover of Midnight in Savannah

Midnight in Savannah

Sexual Indiscretions in the Deep South

by Darwin Porter
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002

Midnight in Savannah is the deliberately more explicit, and more entertaining alternative to the John Berendt / Clint Eastwood Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. For more than a year after its appearance in 2000, it was one of the best-selling GLBT books in the Deep South. Midnight in Savannah...
Book cover of Merv Griffin: A Life in the Closet

Merv Griffin: A Life in the Closet

A Life in the Closet

by Darwin Porter
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009

This is the first post-mortem, unauthorized insight into Merv Griffin, a failed singer and unsuccessful actor who unexpectedly rewrote the rules of America's broadcasting industry. He became the richest man in TV, befriended everyone in media who mattered, bought a casino, and maintained a secret...
Book cover of Damn You, Scarlett O'Hara

Damn You, Scarlett O'Hara

The Private Lives of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier

by Darwin Porter, Roy Moseley
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011

The tempestuous, scandalous love affair of the 20th century's Romeo and Juliet was second in fame and notoriety only to that of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and by many accounts, even more corrupt. Even though the spotlight shone on this famous pair throughout most of their tabloid-fueled careers,...
Book cover of Brando Unzipped

Brando Unzipped

Marlon Brando: Bad Boy, Megastar, Sexual Outlaw

by Darwin Porter
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2006

That ongoing, barely under control drama known as Marlon Brando--Hollywood's Ultimate Bad Boy, Megastar, and Sexual Outlaw--with a special focus on his early rise to fame and his social and sexual associations with the A-list legends of the 40s, 50s, and 60s. Brando Unzipped is the definitive gossip...
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