Get Mahoney!: A Hollywood Insider's Memoir

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From Gable to Garland; from the stones to Sinatra: Jim Mahoney's job as a Hollywood press agent was to polish stars and make sure they continued to shine brightly. Eventually, columns gave way to television, and the advent of “60 Minutes,” CNN’s “Larry King Live,” “Entertainment Tonight,”“Extra,” the network morning shows, and, of course, a Barbara Walter’s special was huge. What this book shares is what life of a Public Relations firm was like before the internet and social media as we have come to know it today.

If that doesn't work, there may be a network issue, and you can use our self test page to see what's preventing the page from loading. Charles, from an idle taxi, sees simply Michaela looking like she had abandoned their plans and jumps on into the taxi, driving off from the others.

What’s interesting here is that the kidnappers not only had the FBI on their trail, but they had Sam Giancana, then the head of the Chicago mafia, as well as every thug from Queens to San Diego looking for them. As an example, I had a producer client, Martin (Marty) Ransohoff and his company, Filmways, ( The Americanization of Emily, The Sandpiper). We played golf at Bel Air Country Club and at the Crosby Pro-Am together, and our kids all went to school together.

This should be a collaborative business, but all too often, it’s a competition between the manager, the agent, and the PR people. Laurel quickly acts on her strong feelings towards Charles, thinking he had her late boyfriend, Wes killed. is fun romp through old Hollywood, with names that you'll recognize and untold stories that makes this book hard to put down. If it wasn’t for her backing and support of me and my career, during the ups and downs that naturally flow in any business, I never would have had the guts to go for it and succeed.Many of the people that worked for me over the years went on to very successful careers in the agency, studio, and network businesses. Such a great piece on the entertainment business and a peep into what’s real or not on celebrity’s lives. I say "accidental" in my headline because I had no idea this book existed and just stumbled on it in the book listings.

No matter how big the item, or how far the reach, he couldn’t see beyond the fact that Garner’s name was mentioned first. Mahoney even touched my sister Carrie’s professional life when he was asked by then Fox Studios boss Alan Ladd Jr. My Hollywood career began at the tender age of nine, when I sneaked under the fence of the old Selznick studios in Culver City and sold Cokes to the cast and crew on the set of “Gone With the Wind. For some reason I decided to read all about how someone did public relations for movie stars, wanna-be stars and companies large and small. Uniquely in Frank’s case, he had them to thank for keeping him afloat during what he regarded as “The Dark Ages,” the early 1950s, before From Here to Eternity, when he couldn’t get arrested.He spent 60+ years in public relations, guiding the images of Clark Gable, Frank Sinatra, Steve McQueen, Bob Hope, Johnny Carson, Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Christie Brinkley, Peggy Lee, and hundreds more. His dad, a house painter, somehow wrangled him the job as Clark Gable’s publicist (thru the local priest? was the phrase often used when stars and their handlers knew trouble was brewing and needed to keep their names out of the press.