• Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

    Directed by Matt Tyrnauer
    US | 98 minutes | The Gay! La His

  • Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

    Directed by Matt Tyrnauer
    US | 98 minutes | The Gay! La His

A fascinating, dishy documentary about the life and times of Scotty Bowers, who, after serving in the Marines in WWII stumbled into a career satisfying the sexual desires of some of the most famous people in Hollywood, both male and female.

film synopsis

After serving as a Marine in World War II, handsome young Midwesterner Scotty Bowers settled in Los Angeles, where he stumbled into a career satisfying the sexual desires of some of the most famous people in Hollywood, both male and female. As documented in his controversial, tell-all 2012 book Full Service, Scotty employed a stable of young men to cater to such closeted luminaries as Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Cole Porter, Rock Hudson, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. As the now 94-year-old legend insists, he just wanted to make people happy. Matt Tyrnauer’s engaging, dishy documentary doesn’t simply rehash the book’s eye-popping revelations. It’s both portrait of Hollywood then and now, and an investigation into the elusive inner life of this affable hedonist, who now lives in a scarily cluttered home in the Hollywood Hills with his wife Lois, who chooses not to know about her husband’s colorful past life.

film details

Director: Matt Tyrnauer
Producers: Matt Tyrnauer, Corey Reeser, Josh Braun
Cinematographers: Chris J. Dapkins
Editor: Bob Eisenhardt
Music: Jane Antonia Cornish
Country: US
Language: English
Year: 2017
Running Time: 98 minutes
Website: http://www.altimeterfilms.com/scotty/

2018 Film Festival