Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars

Scotty Bowers · Lionel Friedberg

Feb 2012 · Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

About this ebook

The legendary hustler of Old Hollywood reveals thirty years of scandalous secrets in this tell-all memoir of Tinseltown’s X-rated underworld.

Newly discharged from the Marines after World War II, Scotty Bowers arrived in Hollywood in 1946. Young, charismatic, and strikingly handsome, he quickly caught the eye of many of the town’s stars and starlets. He began sleeping with some himself, and connecting others with his coterie of sexually free-spirited friends. For decades, he kept their explosive secrets under wraps—but now he tells all in Full Service.

Scotty’s own lovers included Edith Piaf, Spencer Tracy, Vivien Leigh, Cary Grant, and the abdicated King of England Edward VIII. He arranged tricks or otherwise crossed paths with Tennessee Williams, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price, Katharine Hepburn, Rita Hayworth, Errol Flynn, Gloria Swanson, Noël Coward, Mae West, James Dean, Rock Hudson and J. Edgar Hoover, to name but a few.

A fascinating chronicle of Hollywood’s sexual underground, Full Service also exposes the hypocrisy of the studio system that propagate a myth of a conformist, sexually innocent America. Scotty Bowers provides a vital lost chapter in the history of the sexual revolution.

Ratings and reviews

This guy is a sociopath. The book demonstrates why "regular" people should never take their cues from movie and television stars in terms of politics and social mores and attitudes.

I really enjoyed reading about the real life of many Hollywood stars and the things that happen that aren't published in Enquirer magazine. It's an exciting and enjoyable book and I would love to meet Mr. Scotty, what a great guy I bet he is!

This is the worst so called biography I ever read. Bad writing and story telling and I'm sure almost everything is a lie.

About the author

Scotty Bowers, now 95, still works as a bartender at private functions in Hollywood.
Lionel Friedberg is an Emmy-winning producer, director and professional writer.