Hollywood's Hellfire Club

They carried on like pirates, pranked like the Marx Brothers, and had dark sides worthy of Dracula. They were the Bundy Drive Boys-hard-drinking, brilliantly talented, world-famous men of golden-age Hollywood. John Barrymore, W.C. Fields, and Errol Flynn all roistered at the Bundy Drive studio of the profane artist John Decker. All were hell-bent on scaring away film industry boogeymen even while creating sordid monsters of their own. Heroes with Hangovers tells the uncensored and ultimately moving story of these lost-soul geniuses. Their group meetings inspired and emboldened them to greater heights of folly, fun, lunacy, and even criminal behavior. The partying and antics of the Rat Pack seem tame in comparison. Illustrated with many rare, never-before-seen photos and material from the private archives of Barrymore, Decker, Gene Fowler, and Fields, Heroes with Hangovers provides the full-blooded saga of these blessed and cursed men, their legacy and their ghosts. At night they were heroes of the theater, but in the morning they were Heroes with Hangovers.