A history of Hollywood is incomplete without the stories of its actors, and there is no questioning the fact that many of these thousands of coddled, polished, and too often, hollow mannequins have been well paid for their dedication. Unfortunately for them however, there has never been a time in the history of film making when the actors had the most important of job benefits: security. Unlike teachers, Hollywood stars never attain tenure. They work only so long as their performances produce profit. Their fame continues only so long as a great number of moviegoers continue to believe in the radiance of their persona and thus attend the films they appear in. Clearly it is psychologically devastating for an actor to attain star status, even to a minor extent, and then lose it. Following are 265 stories of the Hollywood celebrities that lost that status and couldn't accept their failure; celebrates that were murdered because of their fame; celebrities that couldn't resist the temptation of easily obtainable corporal pleasures such as uninhibited sexual frolicking, careless use of drugs and alcohol; and, of course, those who developed a megalomaniac tendency to allow fame to twist their minds to delusional fantasies of power and omnipotence.Here also is a history of Hollywood, the actors that served in World War Two, the child stars and the Black stars of the early years.