Thursday, January 12, 2006 1:13 PM
LA Press Club to Host Black Dahlia Author Donald H. Wolfe
On January 15, 1947, the body of young, aspiring Hollywood starlet Elizabeth Short was discovered in a vacant lot in Los Angeles. Within days, the dark-haired beauty who wore a white flower behind her ear became immortalized as The Black Dahlia. The subject of countless books and an upcoming film, The Black Dahlia case is considered the most notorious unsolved murder in Los Angeles history.
On Thursday, January 12, 2006, almost 59 years to the day since The Black Dahlia’s body was found, the Los Angeles Press Club will host a reception for Donald H. White, author of “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder that Transfixed Los Angeles” (ReganBooks, January 2006). The author will discuss the book, the media coverage that has surrounded the murder, and the researching efforts necessary for a 60-year-old case that is one of the most infamous crimes of the 1940s.
According to the publisher, Wolfe was allowed access to the files of the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office and “has discovered evidence hidden from the public for over fifty years.” Wolfe “assembles all the missing pieces of the Black Dahlia murder puzzle and names the notorious psychopathic murderer who once wandered the labyrinthine corridors of power that crisscrossed the shadowy underworld of the City of Angels.”
The reception will begin at 6:30 p.m. at L.A. Press Club headquarters and is being underwritten by LAPC and ReganBooks. The conversation will be moderated by former press club president Ted Johnson, editor of “VLife Magazine.” Following his talk, author Wolfe will take questions from the audience.
The case will be the subject of Universal Pictures’ upcoming film “The Black Dahlia,” directed by Brian de Palma and based on a James Ellroy novel. Hilary Swank, Scarlett Johansson, and Josh Hartnett will star in this fictionalized film noir dramatization of the mystery.
Wolfe has worked as a film editor at Columbia Pictures and Warner Bros. where he was the postproduction supervisor on “All the President’s Men” and a screenwriter for Steven Spielberg. A contributor to the “New York Times” and “Paris-Match,” Wolfe now lives in New Hampshire with his wife and two children.
WHEN: Thursday, January 12 at 6:30 p.m.
WHERE: Los Angeles Press Club, 4773 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood.
PARKING: Free, behind the building.
COST: FREE
CO-SPONSORED: By REGANBOOKS and PR NEWSWIRE.
RSVP: to rsvp@lapressclub.org.
