When he was 16 and she was 36, they went to a restaurant for dinner. Christian pleaded guilty and spent five years in prison. Sep 11, 2013 - Explore alice andersen's board "Tragic endings :’(" on Pinterest. He married two 16-year-old girls (Mildred Harris in 1918, after a pregnancy scare, then Lita Grey in 1924). Even the U.S. Senate got involved, with a Colorado senator going so far as to denounce her behavior and call her "a powerful influence for evil." She was hurt by the scandal, she felt she paid such a high price for it but eventually it was resolved. Decades before #MeToo, Hollywood was a playground for men who lorded their power over vulnerable women. Copyright © The Delite, All Rights Reserved. Good tried to make a comeback, and strangely, discovered a young comedian named Bob Hope before dying of a heart attack at 46 years old. There was no evidence of sexual assault, and she was fully dressed when she was found. Old Hollywood From Bombshell Bigger Than Marilyn To A Tragic End At 34, The Rise And Fall Of Jayne Mansfield 117.2k readers Entertainment Why Did Bette Davis And Joan Crawford Have A Legendary Feud? Mannix was known for making problems disappear — is that what he did with Reeves? All the components for a great Hollywood movie. Her 1981 death was initially ruled as accidental, but after new evidence about an argument between Wood and Wagner the night she died came to light, the case was reopened. On January 4, 1991, with one word— guilty— the long and tragic path of Brando and his family hit the bottom. McGranery subsequently banned Chaplin from re-entering the country following his 1952 visit to the U.K. to promote his final movie, “Limelight.” Chaplin eventually surrendered his permit for re-entry, settled in Switzerland and refused to return to the United States until he received an honorary Academy Award in 1972. A jury found him not guilty, potentially swayed by Flynn’s star power. The former Glee star died in July 2020, following a boating incident where she went missing. But of the estimated $4 million he earned from them, his parents refused to give him a cent. He was one of the comedic greats, the first star to be worth a million dollars, known as the king of slapstick. “It left me shattered.” Taylor and Reynolds went several years without speaking to each other, but salvaged their friendship after meeting by chance on the Queen Elizabeth ocean liner in 1966. So what really happened? It wasn't until she was an 85-year-old watching Larry King Live that she was introduced to the idea of date rape and asked her daughter-in-law to explain what it meant. But in 1924 his new studio was failing, bankruptcy was looming, and he set out on a cruise in honor of birthday number 42. Clark Gable was more of a creation than an actor. Her wrist shattered, but her mother — and the director — kept filming to get the shot before allowing her to be saved. See the tragic stories behind these old Hollywood pairs that were never told. Meanwhile, Young was such a devout Catholic that she insisted on a swear jar for on-set expletives, to which Spencer Tracy reportedly said, "Here's a twenty, sister. In November 1924, movie pioneer Thomas Ince attended a party on business mogul William Randolph Hearst’s private yacht. In a jealous rage, Hearst tried to kill Chaplin, missed, and killed Ince instead. (It worked: Natalie's sister is Lana Wood, the Bond girl of Diamonds Are Forever.) Her Knight in Noir Armor. In 1966, Young finally told not-so-little Judy the truth: her father was Clark Gable. Once quoted as saying, “I like my whiskey old and my women young,” “The Adventures of Robin Hood” actor Errol Flynn was accused of having sex with two 17-year-old girls, charges which he denied. 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