Palm Springs Was Once Hollywood's Most Powerful Playground. What Happened?

Palm Springs was built by a Hollywood contract clause and turned into the most glamorous desert escape in American history — a playground for movie stars, mobsters, and millionaires. This is the complete story of how a dying tuberculosis resort became the entertainment capital of the California desert, and exactly what unraveled it. From Nellie Coffman's $2,000 land purchase to the Rat Pack era and beyond, every chapter of Palm Springs is stranger than the last.