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Latest HollywoodEssays.com mini-documentary: The Mysterious Death of Ted Healy
On December 21, 1937, Hollywood actor, rogue and the creator of the Three Stooges, Ted Healy, went out on a night out on the town to celebrate the birth of his first child. Just 36 hours later he would be found dead. What role did Albert “Cubby” Broccoli (creator of the Bond movie franchise) and […]
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In 1938, George Burns’ career was nearly crushed by incredible allegations that had Hollywood holding it’s breath and all of America in shock. Alicia Mayer, grand-niece of MGM studio boss, Louis B. Mayer, introduces you to the story, which she covers in full at http://www.HollywoodEssays.com. Read the forgotten stories about our most loved entertainment icons.
Not Harlow. Mary Dees, the actress who filmed Jean Harlow’s unfinished scenes in Saratoga.
“Backstage at the Shubert Theatre, the stage manager hesitates to pop his head into in the star dressing room. He’s not sure he can take looking at the young woman one more time. That’s not something he’s ever thought about a gorgeous woman before. His motto – You can look at a buffet all you […]
Judy Garland – the tragic arc of the child star.
Like any starry-eyed teenager, the young singer was ready to experience the glamorous world of the movie star. Instead, Garland was sent to MGM school where she met Mickey Rooney and the other kid talents of the time, most of whom were true beauties, like Ava Gardner and Elizabeth Taylor. She was not in their […]
RIP Louis B Mayer – 55th anniversary of his death
RIP ~ Louis B Mayer ~ July 12, 1884 – October 29, 1957 On the 29th of October, 2012 it was the 55th anniversary of the death of my great-uncle Louis B Mayer from leukemia, which also claimed his nephew Leonard M Cummings, the youngest child of my great-grandmother Ida Mayer Cummings. In my earlier […]
The tailor’s son takes a wife…
When Popa mentioned he had also done this on windy, precipitous mountain roads, I had a vision of a wiry, redheaded kid with a huge smile and a constellation of freckles across his face, loving the fresh mountain breeze through the windows and Death not able to catch up with him. In my previous post, […]
