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Did You Know?
Often, the private lives off the screen of many of the actors featured on this website, was far more interesting and perhaps more tragic than the characters they ever portrayed before the camera.
Here is some trivia we thought you might find of interest regarding the private lives of some of the actors that can be found on this website.
Carole Landis ... another casualty of Hollywood!
 | Like millions of other American girls, Frances Lillian Mary Ridste had a voracious hunger for happiness. Like millions of others, she was certain she knew the definition of that sad and elusive word. It meant being rich and famous. It meant having a big car and fine clothes. It meant having a shapely body, unashamedly shown. It meant being madly in love with a handsome man. It meant applause! It led to tragedy! ... read more! |
Margaret Rutherford ...skeletons in the cupboard!
 | "My father," Rutherford explained,"died under tragic circumstances soon after my mother, and so I became an orphan." It was a tale of misfortune of the sort that often appears at the start of children's novels, the quicker to unburden the plot of parental interference. And barely a word was true, Margaret Rutherford's account of herself was a fiction, created to obfuscate the true story of her inheritance: a secret narrative of madness, suicide and murder! To read more ... click here! Sorry! Link No Longer Available |
All the world loves Marilyn!
 | In May 1956 Marilyn Monroe was on top of the world yet within a few brief years her life would end in tragedy! Read this fascinating article on Marilyn written in 1956 by Time Magazine! ... In Turkey a man went so daft while watching Marilyn wriggle through How To Marry A Millionaire that he slashed his wrists. The communists have angrily denounced her as a capitalist trick to make the US masses forget how miserable they really are. In Moji, Japan her notorious nude photograph was hung in the municiple assembly building in an effort "to rejuvenate the assemblymen." Read more of this article ... click here! |
Joan Bennett ... a shot in the dark!
 | December 1951 In a Hollywood parking lot one evening last week, a jealous husband waited for his wife to return from, a drive with another man. After the big Cadillac convertible pulled to a stop, the attendant heard the woman scream and a man's startled voice: "Don't be silly, Walter. Don't!" Then there were two shots. One bullet from the husband's gun smashed into the Cadillac's tail fin. The other struck the suspected rival in the groin! To read more ... click here! |
Tom Neal ... life immitating art?
| Tom Neal is best remembered for his off-screen exploits, which involved, scandal, violence, mayhem and ultimately murder! The link below leads to a fascinating article from 1951 regarding his violent relationship with the blonde 'B' movie actress Barbara Payton and her soon to be husband actor Franchot Tone! To read the article ... click here!
Breaking News: 29/12/08 Ann Savage, Tom Neal's co-star in the film-noir classic movie 'Detour' [1945] has died at age 87. The actress died in her sleep at a nursing home on Christmas Day following a series of strokes, said her manager Kent Adamson. Ann Savage as Vera In 2007 Time Magazine added Ann Savage's role of Vera in the movie 'Detour' [1945] to the all time list of Top 25 Greatest Movie Villains. Read More!
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