Get Mahoney!: A Hollywood Insider's Memoir

by Jim Mahoney

Overview

It's not easy being in the public eye. There's always someone watching, waiting for you to mess up. That's where Jim Mahoney comes in. For over 40 years, he's been the go-to guy for Hollywood's elite when they need to clean up a scandal or avoid one altogether. He knows all the tricks of the trade and he's finally spilling the beans in his new book, Get Mahoney!. From Gable to Garland, Sinatra to The Stones, Jim has helped some of the biggest names in Hollywood keep their image squeaky clean. He's seen it all and he's not afraid to share the juiciest details. Get Mahoney! is a tell-all book like no other, packed with insider knowledge and hilarious stories that will keep you entertained from beginning to end. If you want to know what really goes on behind the scenes in Hollywood, this is the book for you. Order your copy today!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781667879314
Publisher:	BookBaby
Publication date:	12/24/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	369,551
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

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. He earned a reputation as one of the best "supress" agents in the business. He is 95 and lives in LaQuinta, CA

Editorial Reviews

2023-04-10
A former Hollywood public relations executive tells of a life working among film legends in this debut memoir.

Mahoney grew up in Culver City, California, in the late 1930s, in the shadow of the MGM film studios. Industrious from a young age, he would sneak onto film sets to sell colas to cast and crew members, netting a profit of 2 cents per bottle. He gained a reputation as a “troublemaker” at school but got a break when his father, a painter, took him to a house that he was working on. There, Mahoney met the actor Clark Gable and his friend and film publicist Howard Strickling. The latter later offered the author a job in the MGM publicity department, where he rubbed shoulders with celebrities and ran errands as Gable’s personal gofer. He also gained firsthand knowledge of how the Hollywood establishment dealt with celebrity scandals. After returning from a tour of duty in Korea in 1952,Mahoney built a notable career for himself as a “media fixer”; at one point, he was tasked with advising Frank Sinatra after his 19-year-old son, Francis Wayne “Frank Jr.” Sinatra, was kidnapped. Throughout his career, Mahoney and his company represented many “high profilers,” including Judy Garland and Steve McQueen. Mahoney has an affably efficient descriptive style; regarding MGM studio executive Eddie Mannix, for instance, he writes: “He was good at greasing palms and burying bones, too.” Fans of Sinatra will take particular interest in Mahoney’s behind-the-scenes perspective. Once, the singer/actor asked the author to “get rid of” a drunken gambler who was bothering him. Characteristically, Mahoney’s take is dryly humorous: “I was a war hero, he thought of me as a tough guy. Nothing could have been further from the truth. My specialty was typewriters and bullshit.” This energetic memoir is bursting with other celebrity anecdotes, as when he describes the MGM commissary: “There were Elizabeth Taylor and Peter Lawford and Van Johnson at one table…Marilyn Monroe, Jane Powell, and Ann Miller sat behind them.”

A must-read remembrance for anyone interested in the golden age of Hollywood and beyond.

Kirkus Reviews