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Nov 19, 2012 · Billy Wilkerson was nervous. It was July 1946, and The Hollywood Reporter owner, editor and publisher was preparing to embark on a landmark campaign that would expose communists working in Hollywood.
Jun 23, 2017 · Billy Wilkerson was a gambling addict–this insight into the gambler’s mind might be one of the reasons for his visionary take on a casino. This photograph was taken in 2008. Matthias Ott via ...
May 26, 2018 · The construction of Billy Wilkerson’s Flamingo resort, Las Vegas, 1945. Most people think the development of the Las Vegas strip started with the Bugsy Siegel building the Flamingo Resort. While the Flamingo was the first luxury resort there, it was in face Billy Wilkerson, the owner of the Hollywood Reporter who first had the idea.
Feb 14, 2019 · The man responsible for this new, faster Strip was Billy Wilkerson, a knockabout Southerner from Tennessee who had hit pay dirt when he stared the influential The Hollywood Reporter in 1933.
Sep 4, 2018 · Billy’s son, William R. Wilkerson III, has done tremendous research on his father, interviewing over decades everyone who knew him best, and portrays him beautifully (and damningly) in this book. Genres Biography History Nonfiction Film True Crime Biography Memoir
Billy Wilkerson was the most powerful man in Hollywood during the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. He was owner and publisher of the Hollywood Reporter, the film industry newspaper that became known as "Hollywood's bible," and he built the CafÉ Trocadero and other legendary nightspots of the Sunset Strip.
Dec 7, 1997 · Wilkerson was born into an Irish Catholic family in Nashville, Tenn., in 1890, the son of a professional gambler who housed his family in plantations and shacks--depending on how the cards, the ...
