Hollywood Sirens: Golden Age Novel by Cami Oster

The glittering lights of Hollywood attracts both the ambitious and the talented, but reality is far from what’s portrayed on the silver screen. Lorraine George arrives to pursue her dream of making it as an actress, with good training and a family history in the performing arts. For others, like Mavis Howard, it means to use her beauty to escape the grinding poverty of the Okie shantytowns. Opposed to what the young hopefuls that turn up at Majestic Studios in droves, looking to fulfil their dreams, success doesn’t necessarily lead to happiness. As Mac Darren, one of the studio’s most illustrious stars, has learned, having everything you want is meaningless until you find someone to share it with, and the studio often has its own ideas of what actors should conduct their personal lives. Being owned by a studio does present its compromises.