The Body Merchant - the story of Earl Carroll - by Ken Murray - First Edition

The Body Merchant: the story of Earl Carroll
by Ken Murray

First Edition

hardcover in good used condition

"This is the story of the sensational and sensual career of Earl Carroll, the most notorious connoisseur of female flesh in the history of Show business. As a master publicist, it is safe to say that Earl Carroll became Flo Ziegfeld’s closest rival during the peak of the Broadway beauty trust. Starting as a Bible salesman in China, Earl Carroll's inventive career took him to Tin Pan Alley and his obsession with sex took him to the pinnacle of Broadway and Hollywood success, with a short stay in a federal penitentiary. To Earl Carroll, nothing was ever lost. There was no such thing as defeat, and life itself could be a perpetual triumph. Though Earl spent most of his life surrounded by beautiful women, there was one raven-haired beauty, Beryl Wallace, who became the most important. "