Old Hollywood Blind Item #5 - Mr. X
This A/B-list actress and comedienne rarely if never talked about her teen years to interviewers. When she was growing up in New York City, and still very much underage, drunken friends of her father (who was a bouncer at several mob-controlled saloons) would rape her. One man gave her an STD. Considering her public persona, it was something that was too painful to discuss.
Ethel Merman?
ReplyDeleteBorn and raised in NYC(Queens)
ReplyDeleteMarion Davies
ReplyDeleteOr Fanny Brice.
ReplyDeleteI think if it was Merman, Enty would have mentioned that she sang
To be different, Joan Rivers?
ReplyDeleteAccording to Merman's bio (a written and heavily researched book, not Wiki), her father was a lifelong bookkeeper and accountant, and a devout Episcopalian. And I figure the blind would have called her a Broadway star or legend as opposed to a comedienne.
ReplyDeleteMae West
ReplyDeleteMay West---she was considered a promiscuous persona, she was raised in NY and
ReplyDelete"Her father was a prizefighter known as "Battlin' Jack West" who later worked as a "special policeman", and later had his own private investigations agency" according to Wikipedia...
Merman would be listed as Broadway star, she was mainly known for her singing also.
ReplyDeleteMary Tyler Moore
ReplyDeleteBarbara Stanwyck
ReplyDeleteMae West
ReplyDeleteRita Hayworth. Similar blind item was just revealed.
ReplyDeleteNah - her father was a doctor, not a bouncer
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