Noir L.A. – Hollywood and Headlines with Special Guest Joan Renner

Historian Joan Renner (Author of The First with the Latest!: Aggie Underwood, the Los Angeles Herald, and the Sordid Crimes of a City) discusses the news media, the relationship between the Press and the Police in Los Angeles in the 1940s, and three women who not only wrote the headlines, but also made them – with Hollywood & Crime host, Tracy Pattin.

Featured stories include Aggie Underwood, ace reporter and first female City Editor of a major newspaper; Florabel Muir, a journalist specializing in the Mob and Hollywood; and famous mystery writer/screenwriter/columnist Craig Rice, AKA Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig.

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