Blind Item #2 - Old Hollywood - The Curse
This foreign born mostly movie actor was B+ listish. He was also closeted. He used several actresses as beards, including a bisexual Broadway star who was also A-/B+ list and considered a curse to those who slept with her. Our actor was sleeping with the closeted gay husband of the Broadway star. The closeted gay husband was an heir to millions of dollars. They arranged a lavender marriage to hide from his conservative southern family that he was gay. When the gay husband threatened to leave his wife and move in with the actor, our actress claimed she was pregnant. She wasn't. She then called up some of her mafia connections, including Bugsy Siegel, to put a hit out on her husband, who was murdered. On a side note, she then started sleeping with the younger brother of the husband she had murdered. He later died of a drug overdose. As for our actor? He was killed in an accident. She was quite the curse.
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne?
ReplyDeleteNevermind. doesn't fit.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Barbara McNair and Rick Manzie (who was murdered allegedly by mobsters? And Horace Manzie being the brother?
I don't know. This is way before my time
Libby Holman and RJReynolds of the tobacco family. I read a book on Holman and she led a wild life. Very good read if you like scandal and families with money. First time poster.
ReplyDeleteWhat was the book called? I've been looking for a good read
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Deleteand Montgomery Clift as the actor?
ReplyDeleteLibby Holman does seem to have left quite a string of bodies in her wake. Yikes.
oh wait, Clift was American.
ReplyDeleteAgree on Libby Holmes though
The question I would like answered is: Just HOW OLD is Enty?! From his recent blinds he ain't a toddler, that's foh sure!
ReplyDeleteEnty knows "Old Hollywood" people or people who know OH people.
DeleteIf this IS Libby Holman, then it seems like Enty has mixed a lot of facts about her life up. Her second husband, Ralph Holmes, was the younger brother of a man she dated named Philips Holmes. Philips died in a combat plane collision and Ralph is the one who died of an overdose. Her first husband, Zachary Reynolds is the husband who was shot after a pregnancy announcement. The only actor seems to be who @Carolyn came up with (Montgomery Clift), who isn't foreign born, lol. https://nursemyra.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/statue-of-libby/
ReplyDelete@Boo Hearne: I believe it's the Himmmm quartet whom are no spring chickens :)
ReplyDeletePS: To all the bellyachers, I myself have no intention of killing the "goose that lays the golden eggs". Face it, there is a curiosity in the unknown, so chill out.
Not related at all, but has anyone seen Enty’s Twitter? He’s adding to The Web blind tomorrow...
ReplyDeleteMontgomery Clift doesn't fit. He was American and he did not die in his car accident.
ReplyDeleteIn the old days stories like these would die off. Now they'll live on until this blog is deleted. This is what I imagine palace gossip is like.
ReplyDeleteImagine all the gossip that went missing. From what little I've read Ben Franklin's antics could fill a blog; he was Clinton-like in his horndogginess. None of the juicy stuff survived, afaik.
In the end it's all about people, which is why it's so interesting. People's stories, no matter how terrible, are always interesting.
James dean for the actor that died in an accident??
ReplyDeleteBugsy Siegel died in 1947, so the hit had to go down before then.
ReplyDeleteI am looking for connection to James Dean also.
ReplyDeleteNot Dean either, he was born in the USA.
ReplyDeleteSo was Bruce Springsteen. ;)
DeleteLesley Howard, Tallulah Bankhead?
ReplyDeleteMy first thought was James Dean too, but when I went back and looked again at the clue, it doesn't say the actor died in a car accident, just an accident. That opens up a whole lot of other possibilities: accident on set, horseback riding accident, diving accident, etc.
ReplyDeleteUhhh....just because people have heard gossip from 1930 or 1955 doesn't mean they're 75 years old. Seriously, people? Come on. Some of us, believe it or not, have studied history from thousands of years ago, and we're not actually that old! BOOM, mind blown.
ReplyDeleteLibby Holman would be my guess for the female, she had a hard life. She had an estate in Stanwich (that area right on the Stamford/Greenwich border in Connecticut). The house is beautiful, inside and out. The grounds were open once a year for a daffodil festival, and people for that one day could tour the outdoor area of the estate. She committed suicide in the seventies. The estate is called Treetops, and allegedly Richard Burton proposed to Elizabeth Taylor there. After her death, the estate was owned by (among others) Champion International, a paper company headquartered in Stamford. While they owned it,they continued the daffodil festival. Champion sold it to a man who managed hedge funds, who owns it to this day. Here;s an article regarding Libby Holman:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.elsewhere.co.nz/weneedtotalkabout/5460/we-need-to-talk-about-libby-holman-sex-scandal-shooting-and-suicide/
In the post above, I made a mistake. Mike Todd proposed to Elizabeth Taylor in the library at Treetops, not Richard Burton.
ReplyDeleteBroadway Star: Libby Holman
ReplyDeleteCloseted gay husband:Zachary Smith Reynolds, of Reynolds Tobacco fame
His actor bf:?
She actually was pregnant though. There was a big scandal because she was drunk at her husband's family's estate in North Carolina when she told him she was pregnant. There was a gunshot and Holman ran into the room saying that Reynolds had killed himself. There was a huge court trial, and Holman's female lover, a member of the Dupont family,showed up dressed as a man. The Reynolds eventually dropped the case, and Holman and her son inherited $7.5 million.
Holmans second husband was was Ralph Holmes, younger brother of a man named Philip Holmes whom Holman had dated. He was in the Canadian RAF and was killed in 1942. Ralph Holmes died of a barbituate overdose in 1945.
Libby Holmes WAS pregnant when Smith Reynolds died and the child was born prematurely. Later, as a teenager, the son died in a mountain climbing accident.
ReplyDeleteLeslie Howard as the movie actor? Died in mysterious plane crash.
ReplyDeleteI read the book years ago. Dreams That Money Can Buy. I had never heard of her but the book looked interesting and it turned out to be a great read.
ReplyDeleteThis has been a tough nut to crack! Even the hubs, who considers the site and H'wood trash a big waste of time got hooked on this one.
ReplyDeleteBugs may be the key here. Long before Mr. Bugs came a calling in Hollywood, he was a bright eyed young hoodlum whacking people in old New York. By the ripe age of 20, he was a seasoned Hitman.
After the repeal of prohibition in 1933, Bugs began to branch out in his skill set, getting away from the paid rubs on this and that. So, this blind could be way older than we thought!
The bi Broadway star is not Marilyn Miller and it's not Jeanne Eagles. Maybe I should look more into other Ziegfeld girls turned actress?