“Everything’s better at the Destiny Club!”
That’s what aspiring jazz singer Dewey Granderson is told on his first day as a server at Hollywood’s hottest speakeasy.
The mantra is wasted on Dewey, who is set on earning a one-way ticket to the booming jazz scene in Harlem…until starlet
Marion Davies walks into the club. Dewey is instantly smitten, unaware that Marion is the mistress of the most powerful man in town, newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst. Things are further complicated when Dewey gets friendly with the rest of the club’s troublesome regulars: comedy duo Mabel Normand and Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, film director William Desmond Taylor,
and national sex-symbol Rudolph Valentino.
When a young woman named Virginia Rappe is found dead in Roscoe’s hotel suite, Hearst schemes to make a fortune for his newspaper. Scandals, heartbreaks and yellow journalism turn everyone’s words against each other.
In the middle of it all, Dewey wonders if anyone will listen if he determines to speak another way.
A fictionalization of the scandals and myths of 1920s Hollywood.