Nita Nolan came to Hollywood in 1921, star-struck, beautiful, and broke, like thousands of other young girls who dreamed of becoming the next Mary Pickford, Mabel Normand, or Theda Bara. Nita made her first screen appearance as a pie-throwing cutie in a comedy two-reeler, but soon, with the help of comedian Billy Bowers, she became a member of the dazzling, glamorous movie-star world she�d only read about.

Nita learned, however, that Hollywood�s glittering surface concealed a morass of depravity and violence unlike anything she�d ever experienced. Drugs, bootleg booze, and sexual permissiveness threatened to destroy both her movie career and the new love she�d found with screen idol Eric Gray.

Sensuality Level: Behind Closed Doors