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Post by RiP, IMDb on Jul 18, 2018 4:04:12 GMT
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Post by petrolino on Jul 20, 2018 23:55:08 GMT
For b-movie fans, the wonderful Yvette Vickers, singer, model and actress. She was born into a jazz family in Kansas City, Missouri in 1928. Made some great movies in the 1950s, turned out for occasional films from the 1960s - 1990s, and worked in musical theatre. Recorded an album in the jazz album in the 1990s and was still present at film events in the 2000s, but then retreated quietly into solitude. Then she was gone.
'From Wikipedia : Vickers was last seen alive in 2010. She had withdrawn from her extended family, and her mummified body was discovered by actress and neighbor Susan Savage on April 27, 2011, in her 10021 Westwanda Drive, Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles, home. The date of her death is unknown, but forensic scientists concluded that she may have been dead for as long as a year before her body was discovered. There were no signs of foul play. Vickers was autopsied by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, who ruled her cause of death to be heart failure resulting from coronary artery disease. Her remains were cremated.'
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Post by Aj_June on Jul 21, 2018 0:38:03 GMT
I read this about her:
Wow.....that's very strange.
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Post by marshamae on Jul 21, 2018 4:35:42 GMT
Jean Arthur.
Theda Bara.
Clara Bow.
Hedy Lamarr.
Mary Pickford. These ladies might have died in obscurity (and you could add Claudette Colbert, Myrna Loy, and Loretta Young to the list), but their fame endures to this day. I can’t see Claudette Colbert , Myrna Loy or Loretta Young on this list. All three continued working well into old age. Colbert retired to an island in The Caribbean ( Barbados?)and didn’t generally see anyone but she had plenty of money and a lovely home. Myrna Loy received an Oscar for career achievement just 2 years before she died. Loretta Young’s retirement was for thirty years but she remained very active in Catholic charities with old friends Irene Dunne, Rosalind Russel and others . She also had family ,to whom she turned when she was diagnosed with cancer. Now two sad ladies who really did die in obscurity were Betty Hutton and Veronica Lake. Lake had become an alcoholic and was working as a waitress. Even she though, returned to tv afilm and stage work before dying of Cirrhosis. Betty Hutton suffered from depression and addiction, but with help she recovered enough to take over the role of Miss Hannigan in Annie. Real stability and connection continued to elude her but she was no more forgotten than a lot of older people. As most people age our lives gets narrower. Generally you don’t have The energy for constan5 contacts with people. Most of us don’t age like Angela Lansbury and Maggie Smith.
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Post by koskiewicz on Jul 21, 2018 21:35:26 GMT
Peg Entwistle - though she took a nose dive off of the "Hollywood land" sign to commit suicide in dramatic fashion, who remembers her?
And Albert Dekker...another suicide and obscure actor who appeared as Dr Cyclops...
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jul 21, 2018 21:56:18 GMT
And Albert Dekker...another suicide and obscure actor who appeared as Dr Cyclops... I remember him.
So many suicides.
Imogen Hassall (various B movies like the Long Duel and When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth) was a sad one. Her father died of a heart attack while running to catch her in a recital as a child. Later she tried to reinvigorate her career but it didn't work out and she killed herself.
Michael Gothard (Lifeforce, the Devils) hanged himself I think.
Milton Reid (a couple of James Bond movies among other things) disappeared in India or something.
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Post by forca84 on Jul 23, 2018 23:31:16 GMT
Carolyn Craig who played Nora Manning in "House on Haunted Hill". She died at age 36 from suicide.
Richard Long who was also in "House on Haunted Hill". He died at age 47 of a heart attack dying young like his Father. (And also his neighbor who was also under contract at the same studio.)
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Post by london777 on Jul 27, 2018 0:41:13 GMT
Greta Gynt (1916–2000) was a famous name in the UK just when I started going to "the pictures" with my parents, but I now see that she never appeared in a top rank film. Her career nose-dived when she went to Hollywood to become the next Greta Garbo. She was actually Norwegian, not Swedish, but whose counting? IMDb says: After retiring from the screen she lived in a luxury Kensington property known simply as 'Mrs Moore' and her career was sadly forgotten when she died in 2000. No television news show covered her passing nor was she honoured at the BAFTA Film awards during the annual tribute to film stars passed away, which was a shame for someone so famous during the 1940s and 50s.Well, at least she did not die in poverty like so many fallen stars. I recently watched her in Dear Murderer dir: Arthur Crabtree and Take My Life dir: Ronald Neame (both 1947), probably her two best roles. She was a femme fatale in the former and a sleuthing wife in the latter, but played both the same way, cool and dominant. I imagine she was somewhat inflexible and hard to cast. Pity she never starred for Hitchcock. He liked that type.
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Post by london777 on Jul 27, 2018 0:59:50 GMT
And Albert Dekker...another suicide and obscure actor who appeared as Dr Cyclops... Nothing obscure about Albert Dekker. He had key parts in some of the best American films ever made: The Wild Bunch (1969) dir: Sam Peckinpah Kiss Me Deadly (1955) dir: Robert Aldrich East of Eden (1955) dir: Elia Kazan The Killers (1946) dir: Robert Siodmak Dr Who? He was also a very eminent stage actor before his film career and after it had peaked. Also the coroner's verdict was that he did not commit suicide. Which brings me to another point. A lot of the actors who lived, and sometimes died, miserably were of unorthodox sexual orientation, at a time when "coming out" would have ended their careers and maybe invited prosecution.
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