Today's Blind Items - Medicine - Old Hollywood

This actor started off in the circus before becoming an A- list actor and winning an Academy Award. In addition to helping kill a man, he also nearly took the life of his wife. His wife was only 16 when she started dating him and they got married the day after her 17th birthday. She regretted it even before they got married. She didn't know if she could endure a lifetime of beatings. Our actress was a multiple nominee/winner of Oscars. Shortly after they got married, our actress got pregnant. The actor wanted nothing to do with children but pretended to his wife that he was excited. He slipped something into a drink one night that caused her to have a spontaneous abortion. It also did a lot of damage to her and she ended up in the hospital for nearly a month. When she found out about what was given to her and by whom, she left him.