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Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Directed by
Matt Tyrnauer
Not Rated
2018
1h 37m
Documentary
,
Biography
,
and more
6.7
85%
57%
Watch Free
A portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer to the stars.
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Cast of Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Scotty Bowers
Self / Writer
William Mann
Self
David Kuhn
Self
Stephen Fry
Self
Peter Bart
Self
Lois Bowers
Self
Matthew Hoffman
Self
Paul Teetor
Self
Jack Kimberling
Self
Michael Childers
Self
Lee Shook
Self
Robert Hofler
Self
Dian Hanson
Self
Tony Charmoli
Self
Paul LaMastra
Self
Phyllis Bowers
Sef (voice)
Dale Bowers
Self (voice)
Liz Smith
Self
Myke Dodge Weiskopf
Self
Randolph Scott
Self (archive footage)
Laurence Olivier
Self (archive footage)
Ramon Novarro
Self (archive footage)
Orry-Kelly
Self (archive footage)
Vivien Leigh
Self (archive footage)
Elsa Lanchester
Self (archive footage)
Rock Hudson
Self (archive footage)
J. Edgar Hoover
Self (archive footage)
Katharine Hepburn
Self (archive footage)
William Holden
Self (archive footage)
Cary Grant
Self (archive footage)
Whoopi Goldberg
Self (archive footage)
Ava Gardner
Self (archive footage)
Greta Garbo
Self (archive footage)
Tom Ewell
Self (archive footage)
Beach Dickerson
Self (archive footage)
Bette Davis
Self (archive footage)
George Cukor
Self (archive footage)
Joseph Breen
Self (archive footage)
Lauren Bacall
Self (archive footage)
Jennifer Aniston
Self (archive footage)
Judith Anderson
Self (archive footage)
Walter Pidgeon
Self (archive footage)
Cole Porter
Self (archive footage)
Elvis Presley
Self (archive footage)
Sherri Shepherd
Self (archive footage)
Spencer Tracy
Self (archive footage)
Lana Turner
Self (archive footage)
Barbara Walters
Self (archive footage)
Edwin B. Willis
Self (archive footage)
Wallis Simpson
Self (archive footage)
Matt Tyrnauer
Director
Lionel Friedberg
Writer
Josh Braun
Producer
Corey Reeser
Producer
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood Ratings & Reviews
Entertainment Weekly
Chris Nashawaty
If you've already pored over Bowers' book, there's a bit of redundancy and repetitiveness to the gentleman hustler's revelations. But honestly, who tires of hearing gossip about A-list gang bangs, fetishes, and hook-ups?
Rolling Stone
David Fear
We get a lot of opaque Scottys, all semi-attached to an alternate "history" that feels maddeningly incomplete and barely surface-scratched.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
A living rebuke to the imagined America of Hollywood's golden age.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Equal parts gossipy tell-all and poignant portrait of a man whose life is revealed to be rather more complicated than the sunny sex romp Bowers describes.
Austin Chronicle
Richard Whittaker
When Tyrnauer concentrates on the life of consensual pleasure - often told with Bowers' salty tongue from his giggly recollections - then Scotty is more fun than a sock hop.
Boston Globe
Mark Feeney
Hearing about all this TLC will make watching TCM a very different experience.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
In Matt Tyrnauer's touching documentary "Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood," Bowers is cast not only as a name-dropping Zelig but a free-living, free-loving, fascinatingly contradictory pioneer.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
There's more to the film than lurid stories, though there are an awful lot of lurid stories.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Wondering what's real and what's just a carefully crafted crock doesn't make "Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood" a better experience. It makes it a little pointless and frustrating.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Mr. Tyrnauer surreptitiously hoses away the layers of dirt to reveal the fragility of his subject's anything-goes hedonism.
Village Voice
Ren Jender
Scotty offers more than just salaciousness.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
The power of Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood is cumulative.
The Young Folks
Kristen Lopez
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood is a mixed bag. It's an intriguing look at an unseen Hollywood player who you either love to hate or believe wholeheartedly.
What the Flick?!
Christy Lemire
[Scotty Bowers] is sort of a fascinating jumble of contradictions.
RogerEbert.com
Godfrey Cheshire
The film does a good job of placing all this Tinseltown rutting in the context of Hollywood's industrial need to keep secrets and maintain squeaky-clean images for its most famous denizens.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
[Director Matt Tyrnauer's] new doc, which was based on Mr. Bowers's memoir, "Full Service," combines tell-all appeal with a seriously significant story of prejudice and hypocrisy on a literally mythic scale.
NPR
Andrew Lapin
We are constantly rewriting our collective history, but few of us can do it with as much devilish glee as Scotty Bowers.
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
As a candid and involving socio-sexual time capsule of postwar to pre-AIDS Hollywood and how one free-thinking pioneer made a secret society of legendary artists and performers undeniably happy, "Scotty" definitely succeeds.
Slate
Inkoo Kang
An important corrective to many contemporary and historical accounts of Hollywood, reinstating the queerness that has too often been straight-washed out of them, as well as a fascinating chronicle of an apparently nonexploitative model of sex work.
Variety
Peter Debruge
No one tells stories like Scotty Bowers.
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