The 1940s are revered as a Hollywood golden age when legendary actors Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy, Vivien Leigh and Katharine Hepburn ruled the silver screen.
But Tinseltown in that era was also rife with the same sort of sexual oddities we read about in today’s tabloids, according to a new memoir by Scotty Bowers, a U.S. Marine turned “prostitution ringmaster.”
In his book, “Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars,” the 88-year-old dishes about his bedroom romps with Hollywood’s leading ladies and gentlemen in 1940s Hollywood, the New York Times reports.
“I’ve kept silent all these years because I didn’t want to hurt any of these people,” Bowers told the Times. “And I never saw the fascination. So they liked sex how they liked it. Who cares?”
But now the sexual proclivities of A-listers are fair game, Bowers says, because the players in his X-rated game are long gone.
Bowers reveals that he arranged trysts for legendary actress Katharine Hepburn with over 150 different women, and that he set up Spencer Tracy and Cary Grant with other men.
Also in the book, the Daily Mail reported, are remembrances of his own sexual encounters with Edith Piaf, Vivien Leigh, Grant and Tracy. He also says he had several threesomes with the Duke of Windsor and his wife, Wallis Simpson.
The memoir chronicles how Bowers got into the business. After being discharged from the Marines after his stint in the Pacific during World War II, he got a job pumping gas in Hollywood.
He was first propositioned by Walter Pidgeon, and started selling his services for $20. Bowers continued his services for three decades.
“I think I never got caught partly because I kept everything in my head,” Bowers told the Times. “There was no little black book.”