January 18, 2016
This original It actress let her boyfriend fire the assistant of the actress. He said it was because the assistant was not nice. The truth is she would not sleep with him. When the assistant demanded a severance, our actress got ticked off and went to the police saying the assistant was extorting the actress. Not even close to being true, but the police and district attorney who did favors for the studio arrested the assistant and charged with extortion and 35 counts of theft. A jury found her guilty of one charge and the assistant was sentenced to 18 months in jail. Proving that karma may in fact exist, the actress only made two more movies before being forced to retire at 28.
Clara Bow/Rex Bell/Daisy DeVoe
I know I am the ONLY one but Old Hollywood blinds kinda bore me...I wanna hear about what happened on the set of PASSIONS. Was Tabitha really a bitch? Did Timmy swing both ways...
ReplyDeleteClara Bow had one of the most fascinating, saddest lives I've ever read about. For those, like me, who do love stories of old Hollywood, I highly recommend the Clara Bow biography "Runnin' Wild," by David Stenn.
ReplyDeleteThe thing about old Hollywood is that almost EVERYONE had a sad childhood. I love the old blinds because everything and everyone was as messed up as they are now but it was buried under a shiny and clean f facade.
ReplyDeleteI thought the earlier Sean Connery blind was cool. I would be interested in seeing the real fight footage. With lives on the line.
ReplyDeleteYou are not the only one.
ReplyDeleteHa ha, I LOVED that show when it first started. Got boring later, but it was amazing in the beginning.
ReplyDeleteHa! @Derek Passions! I'd blocked that out of my mind, with perhaps the except of Travis Schuldt. Poor Timmy, RIP.
ReplyDeleteOld Hollywood blinds are fascinating. TY!
ReplyDeleteYou're not the only one. Unfortunately I don't really know a lot of the people in the Old Hollywood blinds...but I don't say anything because I know people enjoy them. I am someone who likes the Teen Mom and reality show blinds though lmao
ReplyDeleteAny show with Juliet Mills and a demon dwarf can't be all bad. ;-p
ReplyDeleteIt's still EXACTLY the same today. Except for those of us who read blind gossip and know the dirt underneath the shine!
ReplyDeleteWow, now that is really OLD Hollywood! I love seeing this kind of stuff, so more Old (Silent) Hollywood blinds, please!
ReplyDeleteClara Bow had severe mental illness and was badly mistreated by her studio and the press. The end of her film career had nothing to do with karma. A blithering idiot must have written this.
ReplyDeleteI adore these old Hollywood blinds! I think that's because the early days of the movie business were so much just a crap shoot. They literally made dozens of movies a week at the beginning with just a group of friends, one camera, and an editing table. Most of the people involved were young vaudeville actors who were taking a risk on the new medium. Even from the beginning, the people in the business were shady and corrupt opportunists or messed-up drug addicts. And it was a much smaller city--just over a half million in population in 1920. Everyone knew everyone.
ReplyDeleteYou know, I'm off to go read "A Cast of Killers" again. It's about the unsolved William Desmond Taylor murder in 1922. Great book.
This reminds me of the quote in "Gosford Park":
ReplyDelete"Listen, you tell Sheehan I think Clara Bow is a really nice person, and she's not coming within ten miles of my picture. I don't want her in the fucking movie."
You Must Remember This is a fun podcast about Old Hollywood for anyone who likes that stuff.
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