Monday, December 29, 2014

Mr. X Blind Item #2 - Old Hollywood

Before she was famous, this future A++ list actress and Oscar winner/nominee was hoofing it up on Broadway in the chorus line of a second rate revue. She was also making ends meet by prostituting herself to shady men who lived near the apartment she was renting out. Her pimp was psychically and mentally abusive towards her and one night she had enough. She was determined to get rid of him for good, so she ran him over with her car... killing him. The landlady called the police and our future star spent the night in jail, but was eventually released after she told the cops that he was drunk and she had no other choice but to run him over (phew!) Fast forward a year and she has a new alias and she's under contract to the studio she would call home for a few decades. Magically, her arrest record disappeared after some money exchanged hands.

17 comments:

sandybrook said...

Joan Crawford

Princess Demandy-Pants said...

Lauren Bacall

Tricia13 said...

Shirley McLaine?

MizFabulous said...

Lauren Bacall or Audrey Hepburn

Stephie said...

I agree with Crawford.

Nobias said...

I heard back in the day, Lucille Ball was a call girl.

Tricia13 said...

@ nobias- yes I heard that as well. Thought of her, but she was only nommed/won GG's no AA

Jean said...

Joan Crawford or Barbara Stanwyck

TopperMadison said...

Barbara Stanwyck

Jessica Larson said...

I think Crawford, she was discovered first in a chorus line in Detroit, got to NYC.

Stanwyck, had an older sister who was also a model/actress in NY looking out for her.

Bacall was still underage when she was on Broadway & living with her parents.

The 10th Doctor said...

I think Joan Crawford too.

it took forever said...

old hollywood blinds are soooo juicy. Those asshole stars were STAAAAHS

DropTrow said...

Psychically abusive?

He used his brain powers to abuse her?

Shelly Shell said...

Bacall was a star on Broadway at 17 & lived with her parents, got signed to the studio at 18 and married Bogie. She never really struggled.

Stanwyck's older sister was already established Zeigfeld girl

Think this is Crawford, she clawed her way to the top. She was married breifly when in NYC, some biographies state he was her pimp. She doesn't talk about him or that marriage. Think it was him she killed.

aemish said...

So Joan Crawford was a stage name? Interesting!

Jessica Larson said...

Joan's real name was Lucy LeSueur.

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