CASE INDEX
Browse Hollywood Case File investigations and their source notes.
CASE HCF-004
One rumor has followed Clara Bow for nearly a century. We traced it through print: a 1927 tea party, fan-magazine jokes, her secretary's 1931 trial, a prosecuted tabloid, and the earliest explicitly sexual version we found, in 1965.
CASE HCF-003
Sweat stains, a reported $12 sale, a $310,000 bid in 2010 and a top that was never worn: what the record shows about Monroe's pink gown after Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and where it stops.
CASE HCF-002
How three scenes from an unacquired play led to an injunction against MGM's Letty Lynton, a profit accounting, and decades outside authorized circulation.
CASE HCF-001
How Olivia de Havilland challenged Warner Bros. over unpaid suspension time and California's seven-year limit on studio contracts.