There were so many blinds and reveals yesterday, but still didn't get to them all, so here are a few more until the next Old Hollywood day.
#1 This murder victim of one of Hollywood's most notorious unsolved murders was no innocent starlet. She was a high priced call girl with her madam being the ex girlfriend of an infamous mobster. She also had several famous men as her clientele. In the weeks leading up to her death she slept with two Oscar winning/nominated triple threats (actor-director-writer), two B-list actors turned criminals, a newspaper editor turned nightclub owner, studio heads and the aforementioned mobster. He had her killed so she wouldn't talk and had a local surgeon who specialized in slicing up cadavers for research labs cut up the starlet's remains and had his goons dump them near the home of his ex girlfriend. Needless so say she wasn't scared and conspired with some of his enemies to have him killed.
#2 - What A-list character actor who started out on Broadway was also one of show biz' biggest racists? He had a rule that he never take a curtain call with a costar who was not white. Needless to say, this rubbed a lot of his colleagues the wrong way and he didn't make many allies. Did I mention he was also gay? He didn't come out during his long career but it was an open secret. He also carried his curtain call rule over to the bedroom.
#3 - This B-list actor who reached almost A-list level had an open secret about his parentage. He was biracial, his mother being a Pacific Islander and his father a white European, but was very light skinned that it was hard to tell. His studio's PR people at various times stated either he was full blooded Pacific Islander or full blooded European. Either way, they made him darken his skin with light brown makeup in almost every movie he was in to make him look more exotic. Basically it was another form of blackface.
