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Old Hollywood owes a lot to the circus.
Promotional teams might shave womens heads in busy movie theaters or hire a lewd skywriter to turn heads.
Here are some of the greatest publicity hits from Hollywoods Golden Age.
But hes probably best known for his lion room-service stunt.
But there was no Steinway in that crate, as the poor staffers soon discovered.
The next morning, Reichenbach called to request ten pounds of raw steak for breakfast for his pet lion.
This stunt was well-reported in the New York media, earning plenty of advance buzz for T.R.
Zann or rather, Tarzan.
Draculas Daughter(1936)Like Reichenbach, Joe Weil made a name for himself as an exploitation maestro.
The longtime Universal publicity manhandled many of the studios monster movies, including the 1936queer classicDraculas Daughter.
So Weil hired a woman to pose as one of Zaleskas victims in a Pittsburgh storefront.
The woman was then taken to the movie theater and revived on stage.
It was a perfect preview of the theme parks to come.
Kazan called it the greatest idea since the days of Barnum, but the Catholic Church was less amused.
One of them went all the wayto the Supreme Court.
The Girl in the Kremlin(1957)
In this 50s thriller, Joseph Stalin never died.
But before making his escape, Stalin punishes a young prisoner by shaving off all her hair.
