"I used to tend bar for lots of people in Whitley Heights. I still know a few people there. It sure is a pretty neighborhood. Close to where the gas station was, too.” Scotty Bowers tweet in 2018, age 95.

On Sunday May 22nd at 2:00 PM, do join neighbor Trevor Winn for an entertaining interview with Matt Tyrnauer, award-winning journalist and documentarian.

"Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood" is the deliciously scandalous story of Scotty Bowers, a handsome ex-Marine who landed in Hollywood after World War II and became confidante, aide-de-camp and lover to many of Hollywood’s greatest male and femal stars. In the 1940s and ‘50s, Scotty ran a gas station in the shadow of the studio lots, where he would connect his friends with actors and actresses who had to hide their true sexual identities. An unsung Hollywood legend, Bowers would cater to the appetites of celebrities—straight and gay–for decades. While the studio PR machines were promoting their stars as wholesome and monogamous, Bowers was fulfilling the true desires of many of them.

Tyrnauer calls Scotty 'the most natural, unaffected person I’ve ever met. He’s not only street smart, but his kind of sensitivity, his antennae for the way to deal with people and to create happy, soothing situations – no matter what the situation – is like nothing I’ve ever seen before."

Zoom fundraiser to benefit Whitley Heights Civic Association.

Service fee: $20.00

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