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The mysterious Montague [a true tale of Hollywood, golf, and armed robbery]
Unabridged.
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- "Unabridged."@en
- "A saga of 1930s Hollywood profiles camera-shy golf legend John Montague, who mingled with Hollywood royalty and earned a reputation as a great golfer until his true identity was revealed as a fugitive wanted for armed robbery in upstate New York."@en
- "He was a 1930s golf legend and Hollywood trickster who adamantly refused to be photographed. He never played professionally, yet sports-writing legend Grantland Rice still heralded him as "the greatest golfer in the world." Then, in 1937, the secrets of John Montague's past were exposed--leading to a sensational trial that captivated the nation. John Montague was a boisterous enigma. He had a bagful of golf tricks, on and off the course. He could chip a ball across a room into a highball glass, and knock a bird off a wire from 170 yards--and when the big man arrived in Hollywood in the early 1930s, he quickly became a celebrity among celebrities. He lived for a time with Oliver Hardy (whom he could lift, one-handed, onto the country club bar) and played golf with everyone from Howard Hughes and W.C. Fields to Babe Ruth and his close friend Bing Crosby, whom he famously beat while playing only with a rake, a shovel, and a bat. Yet strangely Montague never entered a professional tournament, and in a town that thrived on publicity, he never allowed his image to be captured on film."@en
- "A saga of 1930s Hollywood profiles camera-shy golf legend John Montague, who mingled with Hollywood royalty and earned a reputation as a great golfer until his true identity was revealed as a fugitive wanted for armed robbery."@en