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Ctn: This story ntas d spoilers for the first episo of “Hollywood.”Ryan Murphy’s limed seri “Hollywood” is a mixture of fictn and fact, wh s fictnal characters set agast actual events and people the movie dtry durg the years after World War II. And bee of the way the Netflix limed seri approach s story, n be tricky to tell the tth om the fantasy, particularly sce the whole ia of “Hollywood” is to tell a story of what uld have been, not what that alternative history real history as a jumpg-off pot, so viewers are bound to wonr about some of the events and settgs picted the miseri — particularly the first few episos, before the story veers to obv of the prime settgs for the seri is a Hollywood gas statn n by a suave operator named Ernie Wt (Dylan McDermott). Ernie has hired an array of good-lookg young men to not only pump gas, but also supply sexual servic to both women and men who e to the statn and say they’d like to go to “dreamland.”And the gas-statn scen are certa to get viewers askg if an rt service was really n out of a gas statn that tered to the Hollywood answer to that pends on whether or not you believe Stty Bowers, who is clearly the mol for the Ernie Read: Hollywood Gets a Rewre Trailer for Ryan Murphy's New Netflix Seri (Vio)Bowers was an Illois-born former WWII serviceman who moved to Los Angel after the war – and his 2012 memoir, “Full Service,” and the 2017 documentary “Stty and the Secret History of Hollywood,” he said he lnched what would be a 30-to-40-year reer as a genial Tseltown flh-peddler when Walter Pidgeon me to a gas statn where Bowers was workg and offered him $20 if they uld spend the afternoon together.A naked swim Pidgeon’s Beverly Hills pool turned to a torrid sexual threome wh Pidgeon and a iend. For years after that, Bowers said, he did ed n an rt service out of a gas statn on Hollywood Blvd., supplyg men to women, men to men, women to women and women to men. (He didn’t take a cut — money only passed between Stty’s employe and his ctomers.) Bowers said the sexual enunters sometim took place at the ctomers’ hom, sometim a trailer loted the back of the gas statn, both of which are picted the miseri,“Over the years more Hollywood personali secretly ngregated at that ltle gas statn than anywhere else town,” Bowers wrote. “It was a scene that saw as much fur actn as the bit stud back lot. The place beme a mag for those qut of rnal thrills and pism of every kd. A val of movie stars and others were attracted to the statn like the proverbial moth to a flame. I beme the go-to guy town for arrangg whatever people sired. And everybody’s needs were met. Whatever folks wanted, I had . I uld make all their fantasi e te. No matter how outrageo or offbeat people’s tast, I was the one who knew how to get them exactly what they were after. Straight, gay, or bi; male or female; young or old – I had somethg for everyone.”Also Read: 'Hollywood': Netflix Shar First Look at Ryan Murphy Limed Seri (Photos)Bowers’ book, which is full of gossip about the sexualy of long-ad ins like Cary Grant, Rock Hudson (a major character “Hollywood”), Charl Lghton, Kathare Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, was greeted upon s publitn wh some skepticism, particularly for the way which Bowers claims to have sex wh or supplied sexual partners to so many famo his stori have also been backed up by a number of people who were around Hollywood at the time. Several Hollywood bgraphi, cludg on on Vivien Leigh and Kathare Hepburn, scribe the Richfield statn more or ls the same way Bowers do. Matt Tyrner, who directed “Stty and the Secret History of Hollywood,” said he found at least anecdotal nfirmatn for “almost everythg” Bowers said. “It all adds up,” Tyrner told the New York Robert Hofler, a journalist whose book “The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson” chronicl s of gay life Hollywood, had many nversatns wh Bowers and found him credible. “Stty knocked down more legends than he nfirmed,” he “Hollywood,” the Ernie character retas some of Bowers’ own bgraphil tails, but he is fictnalized several ways. For one thg, Bowers was his early-to-mid 20s durg the time when the film is set, while McDermott is more than 30 years olr than that. And Ernie’s life go a directn very different than the real Bowers, who beme a bartenr after he left the gas statn, and who died last Read: Stty Bowers, Sex Procurer for Gay Stars Old Hollywood, Di at 96The miseri also chang the name and lotn of the gas statn, llg Goln Top Gas and lotg at the rner of “Normandie and Cs” – an tersectn that don’t actually exist, sce Cs and Normandie are north-south streets that never tth, the gas statn where Bowers says he ran his rt service was a Richfield statn, and was loted at 5777 Hollywood Blvd., at the rner of Hollywood and Van Ns.A fire statn occupi the property now – and cintally, if you look south om the statn you’ll be starg at the big, new Netflix buildg, which ss directly across the Hollywood eeway, about a third of a e origal story ‘Hollywood’ Fact Check: Was a Gas Statn Really the Front for a Hollywood Esrt Service? At TheWrap

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NETFLIX’S HOLLYWOOD: THE TE STORY OF STTY BOWERS, REAL-LIFE L.A. PIMPRYAN MURPHY’S NEW NETFLIX SERI IS SET LARGELY AT A GAS STATN BASED ON THE REAL-LIFE ONE N BY HOLLYWOOD PIMP STTY BOWERS.BY JULIE MILLERAPRIL 30, 2020STTY BOWERS AT THE ABBEY WT HOLLYWOOD ON JULY 25, 2018.BY TASIA WELLS/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETWO YEARS AGO, STTY BOWERS—THE LOS ANGEL HTLER WHO CLAIMED TO HAVE HOOKED OLD HOLLYWOOD’S BIGGT STARS UP WH WILLG SEXUAL PARTNERS, GAY AND STRAIGHT—WAS THE SUBJECT OF A FASCATG DOCUMENTARY, STTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD. IN , THE WORLD WAR II VETERAN TURNED PIMP DISHED ON THE ALLEGED SECRET SEX LIV OF KATHARE HEPBURN, SPENCER TRACY, CARY GRANT, ROCK HUDSON, CHARL LGHTON, RAYMOND BURR, VCENT PRICE, COLE PORTER, AND VIVIEN LEIGH, AS WELL AS THE LEGENDARY GAS STATN—ON THE RNER OF NORTH VAN NS AVENUE AND HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD—WHERE HE AND HIS LIBERATED IENDS, MALE AND FEMALE, SERVICED MANY OF THEIR A-LIST CLIENTELE. RYAN MURPHY’S LATT NETFLIX SERI, HOLLYWOOD, A FICTNALIZED HOMAGE TO 1940S HOLLYWOOD, PAYS TRIBUTE TO BOWERS BY FEATURG S OWN GAS STATN AND CHARISMATIC PIMP (ERNIE, PLAYED BY DYLAN MCDERMOTT).THE REAL-LIFE BOWERS CLAIMED HE WAS WORKG AS A GAS STATN ATTENDANT AT AGE 23, SHORTLY AFTER THE WAR, WHEN ACTOR WALTER PIDGEON PULLED UP AND ASKED BOWERS TO HOP TO HIS R. IN HIS MEMOIR, FULL SERVICE: MY ADVENTUR HOLLYWOOD AND THE SECRET SEX LIV OF THE STARS, BOWERS RATNALIZED THAT HOOKG UP WH CELEBRI FOR $20 WAS EASY, LUCRATIVE WORK. AS PIDGEON SPREAD WORD ABOUT HIS REPUTATN, BOWERS SAID, THE PIMP EXPAND HIS OPERATN—SETTG UP TWO KG BEDS A PARKED TRAILER AND ENLISTG GOOD-LOOKG MEN AND WOMEN TO HELP HIS SECRETIVE E. AMONG BOWERS’S RACIT CLAIMS: THAT HE TRODUCED KATHARE HEPBURN TO 150 WOMEN OVER SEVERAL S; THAT HE SET UP CARY GRANT WH AN EARLY-REER ROCK HUDSON; AND THAT HE PROCURED SEXUAL PARTNERS FOR WALLIS SIMPSON AND EDWARD VIII. BOWERS ALSO SAID HE SLEPT WH BOTH SPENCER TRACY AND VIVIEN LEIGH; HAD A THREE-WAY WH AVA GARDNER AND LANA TURNER; HAD A THREOME WH CARY GRANT AND HIS ALLEGED LOVER, RANDOLPH STT; AND CLAIMED THAT HIS SEX LIFE WAS SO UNHIBED THAT SURPRISED EVEN SEXOLOGIST ALED KSEY.IN HIS 2012 MEMOIR, WRTEN WH LNEL FRIEDBERG, BOWERS WROTE, “I WAS SETTG UP AN AVERAGE OF 15-20 TRICKS A DAY. THIS WAS A 24/7 OPERATN, EXTENDG OVER A PERD OF, SAY, 30 TO 40 YEARS. AS FOR TRICKS THAT I PERFORMED PERSONALLY, I WAS OFTEN SEEG TWO OR THREE PEOPLE A DAY.”PRR TO HIS MEMOIR, BOWERS WAS FASTIDLY DISCREET. HE NEVER KEPT A BLACK BOOK OF CLIENT NAM, REFG TO SPEAK ABOUT HIS FAMO CLIENTS UNTIL AFTER THEY DIED. HOMOSEXUALY WAS NOT LEGALIZED CALIFORNIA UNTIL THE 1970S; BOWERS’S OPERATN ALLEGEDLY HELPED UNTLS MEN AND WOMEN DULGE SEXUALLY WHOUT ENDANGERG THEIR REERS, REPUTATNS, OR, SOME S, MARRIAG.“THERE ALWAYS WILL BE SECRET LIFE HAPPENG,” BOWERS TOLD THE GUARDIAN 2018. “PEOPLE SHOULD DO WHAT PLEAS THEM AND THE OTHER PERSON—SOME PEOPLE JT PLEASE MORE THAN A FEW.”IN AN TERVIEW WH VANY FAIR, DYLAN MCDERMOTT SAID THAT HIS CHARACTER WAS CERTALY SPIRED BY BOWERS—BUT ALSO BY CLARK GABLE’S CHARACTER THE 1961 FILM THE MISFS. “I HAVE A POSTER OF THE MISFS STG MY BATHROOM AND LOOK AT EVERY DAY,” MCDERMOTT SAID, CG GABLE’S MTACHED AGG PLAYBOY AS A “ME” FOR ERNIE. “THERE WAS A CERTA QUALY HIM I WANTED. HIS HAIR, HIS MTACHE, THE WAY HE RRIED HIMSELF, AND HIS OPTIMISM, IF YOU WILL. IF STTY BOWERS AND CLARK GABLE HAD A LOVE CHILD, WOULD BE ERNIE.”DYLAN MCDERMOTT (LEFT) HOLLYWOOD MOLED THE CHARACTER'S LOOK AFTER CLARK GABLE'S THE MISFS (SET).LEFT, URTY OF NETFLIX; RIGHT, OM THE EVERETT COLLECTN.MCDERMOTT SAID THAT HE LOVED THE NTRADICTNS OF HIS CHARACTER. SURE, ERNIE IS A PIMP—BUT HE’S ALSO A SEXUALLY LIBERATED AND TOLERANT GUY WHO TAK RE OF HIS WORKERS AND FACILAT SATISFYG SEX FOR HIS CLIENTS A REPRSED ERA. “YOU’RE EXPECTG ERNIE TO EXPLO THE GUYS…BUT THE GREAT TWIST ON THE CHARACTER IS THAT HE’S NOT EXPLOG THEM. HE ACTUALLY LOV THE GUYS AND TAK RE OF THEM,” THE ACTOR POTED OUT.DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER MATT TYRNER—WHO IS ALSO A FORMER VANY FAIR WRER AND EDOR—HAS SCRIBED BOWERS G SIAR TERMS. AFTER SPEAKG TO SOME OF THE MEN WHO WORKED FOR BOWERS, TYRNER TOLD BUZZFEED THAT THEY SEEMED TO BE “HAPPY HOOKERS.… IT SEEMED TO BE VERY OL WH EVERYBODY WHO I TALKED TO.… THIS SEEMED TO BE HIGHLY NSENSUAL. AND NO ONE SEEMED TO HAVE A PROBLEM, WHETHER THEY WERE GAY, STRAIGHT, OR OTHERWISE, WH WHAT STTY WAS ASKG.”SPEAKG TO VANY FAIR EARLIER THIS YEAR, MURPHY SAID HE ED THE GAS STATN AS THE BACKDROP OF HIS SERI BEE HE WAS FASCATED BY THE FACT THAT “THERE WAS A MOMENT WHERE PEOPLE HAD TO GO TO THIS GAS STATN TO BE THEMSELV, TO BE ABLE TO EXPRS THEIR SEXUALY, TO BE ABLE TO EXPRS THEIR FANTASY.” AND THAT’S APPARENTLY JT WHAT BOWERS TEND. 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In the new documentary Stty and the Secret History of Hollywood, former V.F. edor Matt Tyrner sh a light on the sexual fixer who tered to secretly gay Goln Age stars * gay hollywood gas station *

Picture a 1940s gas statn that doubl as a pickup spot, plete wh clanste hetero and homosexual enunters, a trailer out back for secret renz-vo, and young, strappg men offerg their “servic” for $20 apiece. Well, not if you’ve heard of Stty the Goln Age of Hollywood, Bowers, an Illois native, arranged sexual assignatns (both gay and straight) for some of the world’s biggt stars. In the years followg World War II, was a crime to be gay.

Hollywood, once an epicenter of sexual eedom, participated “straightwashg, ” or erasg gay sir and narrativ om s history and prent. This forced gay men and women, pecially those the public eye, unrground and th brought about Stty Bowers. He garnered even more notoriety due to his iendship wh director Gee Cor, also featured Hollywood for his famed parti, rampant wh gay affairs.

Two years ago, Stty Bowers—the Los Angel htler who claimed to have hooked Old Hollywood’s biggt stars up wh willg sexual partners, gay and straight—was the subject of a fascatg documentary, Stty and the Secret History of Hollywood.

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Homosexualy was not legalized California until the 1970s; Bowers’s operatn allegedly helped untls men and women dulge sexually whout endangerg their reers, reputatns, or, some s, marriag. And no one seemed to have a problem, whether they were gay, straight, or otherwise, wh what Stty was askg. Tyrner tells Vany Fair that Stty’s brothel was equented by stars who were secretly gay or bisexual.

At the time of his ath, Matt Tyrner, who ma a documentary about Bowers, said of him to The Hollywood Reporter: "Stty was a central figure the gay unrground of Hollywood and served as a tsted protector of his iends' and associat' liv when they had no alternative but to live the shadows. In David Bret's bgraphy of Gone Wh the Wd star Clark Gable, for example, he alleg that the star was "gay for pay, " while other bgraphi of the star scribe him as a "stage gigolo" who had a number of affairs wh rich olr women. In other words, Bowers provid a space for actors to keep their homosexualy on the DL.

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Labelled "male madame to the stars, " a "sex fixer, " and a go-to "hook-up provir, " his servic were an open secret amongst the actg ele—specifilly for closeted gay, lbian, and bisexual stars.

John Sprger Collectn//Getty ImagIn addn to arrangg liaisons for Rock Hudson—who lived as a closeted gay man until he died of AIDS 1985—Bowers claims to have both slept wh and arranged hook-ups wh the era's biggt nam. This was when most of the untry still thought of homosexualy as a mental disorr.

We only tly get a feel for Stty's pth of character when we meet some of his former tricks, strappg gay men who were eager for the work and grateful for the kdns of their protector. Straight, gay, or bi; male or female; young or old – I had somethg for everyone.

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And Robert Hofler, a journalist whose book “The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson” chronicl s of gay life Hollywood, had many nversatns wh Bowers and found him credible.

He worked at a gas statn on the rner of North Van Ns Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard, out of which, he says, he and a dre of his male and female iends serviced Hollywood celebri—many of them closeted homosexuals. They provid a safety zone for people whose reers would have been ed if the tth about them emerged the s before gay rights and the AIDS crisis.

Fans of Goln Age stars might regnize his name as the man who, while workg at a Los Angel gas statn the 1940s and 1950s, set up gay trysts for a st he claims clud Cary Grant, Randolph Stt, Kathare Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.

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Loosely based on Bowers’s 2012 memoir “Full Service, ” the film tch up wh the thor at var book signgs and parti, terspersg toasts and hugs wh geo shots of Hollywood s airbshed heyday, when overweeng studs, aggrsive vice ps and tsive sndal sheets threw homosexual actors and craftspeople to the shadows. What’s more, they provid a much-need release and moment of honty for people whose liv were margalized and crimalized by homophobia and the mythmakg reflex of celebry of “Stty and the Secret History of Hollywood” is taken up wh Bowers as he putters around his alarmgly cluttered hoe, which he shar wh his voted send wife of 35 years. Ksey sought him out, me out to Los Angel, terviewed Stty multiple tim as part of his data pool for his book, but then found that Stty was a ndu to a vert, sexual world, which was this se the gay and lbian world.

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stars"</a> Stty Bowers.<em><br /></em></li><li>The gas statn, which is central to the show, existed. Here's the wild te story.</li></ul><style data-emotn="css 18pb4rg">{borr:0;borr-bottom:th solid black;marg:1.875rem 0;clear:both;}</style><hr data-no-id="1" class="css-18pb4rg et3p2gv0" /><style data-emotn="css 18vfmjb">{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.6;} em{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-style:alic;} strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;}</style><p data-no-id="2" class="body-text css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Ryan Murphy's new Netflix drama <em>Hollywood</em> is a dream for those obssed wh the Goln Era of Tseltown. It's sure to set you on a Googlg enzy, searchg for tails of the tortured liv of stars like Rock Hudson, Anna May Wong, and Hattie McDaniel<em></em>.</p><p data-no-id="3" class="body-text css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">But what may be one of the most trigug piec of history the show unearths, is an unassumg gas statn that served as an unrground hookup spot. And we're troduced to the very first episo when a naive, broke Jack (<a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="David Corenswet" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">David Corenswet</a>) is reced by Ernie (Dylan McDermott) to work as a statn attendant who also doubl as an rt for the Hollywood ele. And as we were surprised to fd out, this storyle isn't some fictnal scenar oked up by Murphy. </p><p data-no-id="4" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><em>Hollywood</em>'s Ernie is spired by a very real man named Stty Bowers, who died at the age of 96 October 2019. And y, he did fact create a work of gas statn sex workers the 1940s.</p><hr data-no-id="6" class="css-18pb4rg et3p2gv0" /><style data-emotn="css 1m6q79k">{font-fay:Juana,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:normal;letter-spacg:-0.005em;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.875rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(max-width: 64rem){{font-size:2.125rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{marg-top:1.875rem;marg-bottom:1.875rem;font-size:2.375rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:2.625rem;le-height:1.1;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><h2 data-no-id="7" class="body-h2 css-1m6q79k et3p2gv0">Dylan McDermott's Ernie is based on the real life Stty Bowers.</h2><style data-emotn="css 1736von">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;clear:both;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="8" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><style data-emotn="css uwraif">{width:100%;display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;-webk-flex-directn:lumn;-ms-flex-directn:lumn;flex-directn:lumn;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;}</style><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="cy of wt hollywood honors hollywood legend stty bowers" tle="Cy Of Wt Hollywood Honors Hollywood Legend Stty Bowers" loadg="lazy" width="3011" height="3655" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><style data-emotn="css swqnqv">@media(m-width: 20rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}</style><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><style data-emotn="css 1am3yn9">{paddg-left:0rem;le-height:1;}</style><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><style data-emotn="css bdkd9">{lor:#6F6F6F;paddg-right:0.3125rem;font-fay:Gilroy,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.2;letter-spacg:0.05em;text-transform:upperse;}</style><span class="css-bdkd9 e6iqd2">Tasia Wells</span><style data-emotn="css 1vsj591">{paddg:0 0.3rem;lor:#6F6F6F;paddg-right:0.3125rem;font-fay:Gilroy,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.2;letter-spacg:0.05em;text-transform:upperse;}</style><span class="css-1vsj591 e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-bdkd9 e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="9" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Amidst the release of his 2012 tell-all book <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Full " data-vars-ga-product-id="427f3e30-75cd-49b6-bc18-2115f49aae12" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"31518d15-56f8-4a3f-8799-8066452d82","se_id":"10a25939-3448-4c42-8343-9bfdfc32076b","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand data-vars-ga-product-price="$9.99" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="943ebbba-0094-4187-bf82-7be51fb176e0" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Movie Directors" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-lk product-lks css-9cezh6 ebsw2pb0"><em>Full</em> </a><em><a href=" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Service: My Adventur Hollywood and the Secret Sex Liv of the Stars" data-vars-ga-product-id="427f3e30-75cd-49b6-bc18-2115f49aae12" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"31518d15-56f8-4a3f-8799-8066452d82","se_id":"10a25939-3448-4c42-8343-9bfdfc32076b","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand data-vars-ga-product-price="$9.99" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="943ebbba-0094-4187-bf82-7be51fb176e0" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Movie Directors" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-lk product-lks css-9cezh6 ebsw2pb0">Service: My Adventur Hollywood and the Secret Sex Liv of the Stars</a></em>, Bowers revealed himself to be one of postwar Hollywood's biggt facilators of sexual trysts for A-listers. <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Labelled "male madame to the stars,"" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">Labelled "male madame to the stars,"</a> a "sex fixer,"<em><em> </em></em>and <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="a go-to "hook-up provir,"" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">a go-to "hook-up provir,"</a> his servic were an open secret amongst the actg ele—specifilly for closeted gay, lbian, and bisexual stars. There's even a 2017 documentary about his story lled <em><a href=" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Stty and the Secret History of Hollywood" data-vars-ga-product-id="ba96b4-1eed-4a47-9b23-87b08dbd443a" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"31518d15-56f8-4a3f-8799-8066452d82","se_id":"10a25939-3448-4c42-8343-9bfdfc32076b","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand data-vars-ga-product-price="$0.00" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="0b7c092e-d573-4c1b-bf5d-3558393116f2" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-lk product-lks css-9cezh6 ebsw2pb0">Stty and the Secret History of Hollywood</a>, </em>directed by Matt Tyrner. And as 's shown <em>Hollywood</em>, Bowers claims that Rock Hudson was one of his equent ctomers. </p><p data-no-id="10" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">“He was the gentleman fixer for generatns of people Hollywood who were forced by the morals cls stud ntracts to live double liv," <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Tyrner told The New York Tim" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">Tyrner told <em>The New York Tim</em></a>, "<em></em>and to hi their te inti orr to nform to what Gore Vidal, a close iend of Stty’s, lled ‘the heterosexual dictatorship.’”<br /></p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="11" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="hollywood" tle=" " loadg="lazy" width="2919" height="1946" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-bdkd9 e6iqd2">SAEED ADYANI/NETFLIX</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="12" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">In orr to prepare for the role of Bowers, McDermott turned to the doc. He tells , "The documentary really helped me terms of Stty's ternal world, so I ed some of that. And I ed the me of Clark Gable. So was kd of, put all a big soup, and then Ernie out." </p><p data-no-id="13" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">McDermott adds: "I know if Sttie were alive, he would absolutely love this show. I thk he would jt marvel at and get a good lgh."</p><hr data-no-id="14" class="css-18pb4rg et3p2gv0" /><h2 data-no-id="15" class="body-h2 css-1m6q79k et3p2gv0">Okay, so is the <em>Hollywood</em> gas statn real, too?</h2><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="16" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="hollywood" tle=" " loadg="lazy" width="2974" height="1983" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-bdkd9 e6iqd2">SAEED ADYANI/NETFLIX</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="17" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">If you n believe —and take Bowers' word for —y. After he served the Mare Corps durg World War II, at 23 years old Bowers moved to Los Angel and quickly found a job as an attendant at the Richfield Oil gas statn 1946. <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Acrdg to " class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">Acrdg to </a><em><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="The Hollywood Reporter" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">The Hollywood Reporter</a></em>, the statn—which is now a fire statn—was loted at the rner of Van Ns Avenue at 5777 Hollywood Blvd. It was there where he said he met Osr-wng actor Walter Pidgeon while pumpg his gas. Pidgeon ved him to his home, and that was the begng of a brief affair. As they say, the rt was histor<em>y. </em></p><p data-no-id="18" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">From there, Pidgeon spread news around town of the servic, and more stars would show up to the statn lookg for what Bowers lled his "sexual matchmakg." To keep up wh the mand, acrdg to <em>THR</em>, he soon employed a steady work of male and female sex workers. And as shown <em>Hollywood</em>, there was fact a trailer loted on the property as an optn for clients.<em></em><em></em></p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="19" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="hollywood" tle=" " loadg="lazy" width="3000" height="2000" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-bdkd9 e6iqd2">SAEED ADYANI/NETFLIX</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="20" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">“My operatn—if you want to ll that—was not a prostutn rg,” Bowers wrote his book, <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="acrdg to The New York Tim" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">acrdg to <em>The New York Tim</em></a><em></em>. “I was simply providg a service to those who wanted and, as rerd history has shown, throughout the ag there has always been a need for good, old-fashned, high-qualy sex.”</p><p data-no-id="21" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">He worked the gas statn until 1950, and then beme a handyman and bartenr for-hire at Hollywood's most exclive events. This allowed him to velop more up-close-and-personal relatnships wh celebri, earng their tst for servic that were very much a secret at the time. However, Bowers says that his work end the 1980s durg the height of the AIDS epimic. In his books he wrote, "It was too unsafe a game to play anymore.”</p><hr data-no-id="22" class="css-18pb4rg et3p2gv0" /><h2 data-no-id="23" class="body-h2 css-1m6q79k et3p2gv0">So which celebri did Bowers <em>reportedly</em>... service?</h2><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="24" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="actors spencer tracy and kathare hepburn cuddlg" tle="Actors Spencer Tracy and Kathare Hepburn Cuddlg" loadg="lazy" width="3058" height="4055" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-bdkd9 e6iqd2">John Sprger Collectn</span><span class="css-1vsj591 e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-bdkd9 e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="25" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">In addn to arrangg liaisons for Rock Hudson—who lived as <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="a closeted gay man" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">a closeted gay man</a> until he died of AIDS 1985—Bowers claims to have both slept wh and arranged hook-ups wh the era's biggt nam. </p><p data-no-id="26" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="He alleg" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">He alleg</a> that his clients clud Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy, Cole Porter, Vivien Leigh, <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="the De and Duchs of Wdsor" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">the De and Duchs of Wdsor</a>, Bette Davis, and Kathere Hepburn—for whom he said he arranged more-than 100 trysts wh women. 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