Today's Blind Items - Wife Was A Punching Bag - Old Hollywood
There are a lot of a-holes to choose from when you are looking at actors in Old Hollywood. This particular actor was probably at or near the top when it comes to truly awful human beings. It didn't stop him from winning an Academy Award and being nominated for several others. I am utterly shocked his Academy Award nominated wife never was killed during one of his beat downs. It definitely was not for a lack of trying.
Whenever he drank he would beat her. Considering he drank several times each week, this was often a problem when she was filming. If they went out at night and anyone mentioned her previous husbands or boyfriends she would try and make an excuse to not go home because she knew she was going to get beaten.
An ax of the actress threatened the actor's life if he continued to beat the actress but the threat only lasted a few months and then he went back to beating the actress. Our actor would fly all over the world to see his wife just to beat her and make sure she was not cheating on him. There was the time he broke her arm and collarbone and tried to remove her hair with his bare hands. She stayed with him.
The beatings continued until one day our actor almost killed them both. She left and filed for divorce. He then proceeded to spend the next year following her all over the world. He would break in to her hotel rooms or homes and beat her until he passed out. At one point she had her ex hire some men to beat the actor and they did so until the actor almost died. Apparently that finally got the message through and the pair never saw each other again.
