Scotty Bowers, "Male Madame" to the Stars, Dies at 96

Hollywood Reporter ^ | 1:22 PM PDT 10/14/2019 by Gary Baum , Chris Gardner

[Red Badger]

The industry's genial sex fixer — who claimed to arrange liaisons for everyone from Rock Hudson to Bette Davis — challenged Golden Age Hollywood's baseline-heterosexual conception of itself. Scotty Bowers, whose explicit, best-selling 2012 memoir revealed a covert realm of Golden Age Hollywood sexuality, died Sunday of natural causes at his home in Laurel Canyon, documentary director Matt Tyrnauer told The Hollywood Reporter. He was 96.

The former U.S. Marine and gas station attendant turned erotic fixer to the stars (including, he said, Katharine Hepburn and Rock Hudson) was the subject of an acclaimed 2017 documentary, Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood.

[lodi90]

Where is his evidence? Did he ever produce any evidence he actually knew these stars? Photos? Phone book with their numbers in it?

[Reily]

Shows the effectiveness of their public relation agents!

[Red Badger]

There were lots of pics and some even left him stuff in their wills.

Why would stars leave a gas station guy stuff?

He even provided a ‘place’ for their illicit trysts...................

[Red Badger]

Scotty’s Black Book was shown in the documentary...................

[lodi90]

Years ago I bought a box of papers at auction from the estate of one of Howard Hughes’s secretaries. Was kind of cool seeing Jean Harlow’s phone number in her phone book and newspaper clipping of her talking about working for him.

[Bernard Marx]

Much of Bowers’ clientele had um, “special tastes”. This was in the buttoned-down 40s and 50s when being gay had both legal and social consequences. Big name stars had to be extra-careful and he specialized in being discreet.

[Amberdawn]

Maybe so, but given that Hollyweird specializes in deviant sex, I still find it hard to believe that these people couldn’t find “partners” among each other.