Was there really a prostitution ring run out of a gas station? Was really Cole Porter gay? We break it all down.
, Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s soapy, gleefully ahistorical Netflix miniseries about postwar Hollywood, is not so much a work of historical fiction as it is an exercise in wish fulfilment. Murphy and Brennan have imagined an alternate history in which first the film industry, then the entire country set off on a radically different course in 1947, inspired by a single film studio’s embrace of diversity during the making of a single film.
than a realistic treatment of golden age Hollywood, but it does touch on plenty of real people, places, and things. Here’s a breakdown of what’s real and what’s invented inis named “Ernie,” but many of his biographical details come from the life of Scotty Bowers, whose 2012 memoir’s primary sources. Bowers was a Marine who moved to Hollywood after World War II and started turning tricks while working at the Richfield Oil station at Hollywood and Van Ness.
Bowers claims he didn’t take a cut from the people he arranged liaisons for. Also unlike Ernie, Bowers didn’t have lung cancer: He lived to see his memoir adapted intoPhoto illustration by Slate. Photos by the United States Library of Congress and Netflix. Legendary songwriter Cole Porter was legendarily gay and, according to Scotty Bowers, one of his frequent clients. Although Bowers says he was usually asked to send men to the house Porter was renting, the trailer in the back of the service station shown onwas also real: a friend of Bowers’ made the mistake of renting space to park his custom trailer in a field behind Richfield Oil and the further mistake of giving Bowers a key.
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