The material was culled from FBI raids and taken by Hoover for his own personal enjoyment. It was especially controversial because at the time pornography was illegal.In an interview with MailOnline, Porter said: Hoover was especially interested in collecting copies of blue movies made by movie stars before they became famous, Joan Crawford being among the most famous instances of this.Hoover was said to have obtained a pirated copy of The Masked Bandit: He Robs P****, a blue movie made by a very young Frank Sinatra (the films masked bandit) in 1934.Sinatra shot this movie when he was down and out on the streets of Manhattan. His parents had kicked him out of their house for not pursuing a regular job. dailymail.co.ukOf particular interest were frontal nudes of male celebrities including Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, a teenage Warren Beatty, Elvis Presley, Charlton Heston and James Dean.The book also details how in the 1930s Hoover used male prostitutes whilst on holiday in Havana at a notorious brothel known as 'Cocktail' whilst disguised in a fake moustache, hat pulled down and dark glasses so nobody would recognise him.
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