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Alexander Pantages ‘The Beast’ of Hollywood’s Casting Couch


Citations and Footnotes from Episode 1, “The Beast” 

BOOKS 

Anger, Kenneth, Hollywood Babylon II, New American Library, 1984 

Beauchamp, Cari, Joseph P. Kennedy Presents His Hollywood Years, Penguin Random House, 2009 

Lagos, Taso G., American Zeus, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition. 

Tygiel, Jules, The Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil, Stocks, and Scandal During the Roaring Twenties, University of California Press, Jan 1, 1996 

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VARIETY

VAUDEVILLE JUDGMENT AGAINST PANTAGES THOUGH HE REPUDIATES AGENTS, Variety, March 12, 1915  

Savings of 4 Mil If Kennedy Merges FBO Pathe First National, Variety, Aug. 15, 1928 

Pantages Very Nasty Mess, Variety, 19290814 

Sentiment Swings to Pantages, Variety, October 30, 1929  

Pantages Sentenced to 50 Years, Variety, November 13, 1929 

Applications for Parole Denied, Variety, February 5, 1930 

New Trial Granted, Variety, September 27, 1930  

Pantages, Vet Vaudevill Showman; Dies at 65, Had a Colorful Career,” Variety, p. 63, Feb. 19, 1936 

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PANTAGES – OTHER PERIODICALS  

Pantages Driver Held Speeding Reckless Driving, Los Angeles Times, Feb. 22, 1924 

Pantages Chauffeur Fined Speeding Reckless Driving, Los Angeles Times, March 24, 1924 

Pantages in Fight with Actress Husband, Los Angeles Times, July 18, 1924 

Pantages Gives Details of Sale, Los Angeles Times, March 17, 1929  

Pantages RKO Deal Near, Los Angeles Times, June 7, 1929 

Mrs. Pantages Arrested, Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1929 

Warners Buys DLTLA Pantages 3 Mil, Los Angeles Times, Aug. 9, 1929 

Pantages Placed in Jail, Los Angeles Times,  Aug. 10, 1929 

Pantages out on Bail – Pringles Sue for $500k, Los Angeles Times, 19290811 

Opening Statements Pantages Trial, Los Angeles Times, Jan. 4, 1929 

Eunice Tearfully Testifies, Los Angeles Times, Jan. 5, 1929 

Eunice’s Dress; Her Rescuer Testifies, Los Angeles Times, Jan. 8, 1929 

Pantages Testifies, Los Angeles Times, Jan. 23, 1929 

Closing Arguments, Los Angeles Times, Jan. 25, 1929 

Pantages Found Guilty, Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 1929 

Pringle Girl Returns to the Stand, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 24, 1931 

Pantages Jury Sent to Hotel, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 25, 1931 

Jury Acquits Pantages, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 25, 1931 

Dancer Glad Its Over, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 28 1931 

Pringle Hist Pantages Freedom, United  Press, Nov. 28, 1931 

Fate Showed No Pity for Victim of Barroom Gang Rape, Syracuse Post Standard, Jan. 3, 1987 

Rasmussen, Cecilia, Giesler’s Rise to Glory in LA Courts, Los Angeles Times, Oct. 4, 1998 

D.A. Fitts Was Good Match for Scandalous ë30s, LAT,  Sept. 19, 1999 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-sep-19-me-12084-story.html  

Parrish, Michael, A Myth Maker’s Clarification, Los Angeles Times, June 16, 2002 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jun-16-tm-45939-story.html 

Klondkie Kate Mined Life to Its Fullest, Los Angeles Times, April 25, 2004 

California Supreme Court Historical Society Review, A Legal Cudgel for the (Pant)Ages, p. 15, Fall/Winter 2019 https://www.cschs.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2019-CSCHS-Review-Fall.pdf 

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ADDITIONAL WEBSITES 

Alexander Pantages, (No author cited), https://web.stanford.edu/~ichriss/Pantages.htm 

Warner Brothers Downtown, Los Angeles Theatres Blog, https://losangelestheatres.blogspot.com/2017/09/warner-downtown.html 

Spitzzeri, Paul R.,The Sexual Assault Trial of Alexander Pantages, Los Angeles, October 1929, Homestead Museum Website, October 10, 2018, Https://homesteadmuseum.wordpress.com/2018/10/10/the-sexual-assault-trial-of-alexander-pantages-los-angeles-october-1929/ 

Dunaev – Man Who Could Bend Dimes, HOUSEHISTORYMAN BLOG, March 16, 2013, https://househistoryman.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-man-who-could-bend-dime-with-his.html 

Joseph P. Kennedy, biography.com, April 2, 2014, https://www.biography.com/history-culture/joseph-p-kennedy 

How Joseph Kennedy Made His Fortune, history.com, Oct. 28, 2019, https://www.history.com/news/joseph-kennedy-wealth-alcohol-prohibition 



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