Hollywood History Goddess

Please sign this petition and help to preserve Hollywood History. This includes the flower shop Joe DiMaggio sent flowers to Marilyn Monroe’s Grave  Save 7500 Sunset Boulevard

A simple story really right? We’ve all heard about it, it was quite the scandal of 1921. Boy decided to celebrate a big movie contract rents 3 rooms at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. Boy meets swarmy Madam then Boy meets Girl, Boy helps Girl who is sick on the toilet and she dies 4 days later...Boy is Arrested for Murder.  Simple Right?  The Beginning Labor Day Weekend September 1921 Roscoe Arbuckle was celebrating Adolph Zucker signing him to a 3 year 1 Million a year contract. ($14 Million a year in today’s economy) Roscoe rented rooms 1219-1221 of the St. Frances Hotel in San Francisco CA  It is unknown if Maude Delmont (AKA Madam Black) was invited or crashed the party with starlet and sometime prostitute Virginia Rappe’.  There were a lot of people at the party and it was during the days of Prohibition and (bathtub gin) everyone got drunk quickly.  Roscoe found Virginia with her head in the toilet he came in to help her when Maude Delmont cam...

February 12, 1976 Sal Mineo was stabbed to death in West Hollywood CA.  February 12,1977 Starlite Christa Helm was stabbed to death in West Hollywood CA. Same man?  In the record books Ms. Helm’s death is still considered unsolved. Here is a 48 hours special on Christa’s life and death.  48 Hours Christa Helm Sal Mineo was a brilliant actor, admired by many and was cut down in his prime at 37. Senseless murder! Stabbed once in the Heart and he died of internal injuries.  Mineo worked with James Dean in 2 of Dean’s 3 movies. Giant and Rebel Without a Cause.  Here is his Wikipedia page Sal Mineo Here is a photo of Beautiful Christa Helm she was only 27 at the time of her murder and left behind a daughter who still idolizes her and is still searching for answers in her mom’s murder.  Who stabbed Christa Helm Christa Helm at Find a Grave

So many myths have been written about Marie. I can tell you that her dog did not begin to eat her after her death. She had little bites on her legs when her body was found but it was determined that her faithful little dog was nipping her to “wake her up” sadly she was gone. I wish I knew what happened to that sweet little pup.  Joan Crawford paid for her Funeral she was cremated and her ashes were combined with her mother’s ashes. The location of the remains are unknown.  A big star a Mack Sennett Bathing Beauty in the Silent Movie Era her career faded in the talking picture era. She died from Alcholism and Malnutrition her estate was valued at $300!  The apartment building where she died still stands I drove past it in 2010.  Marie’s Wikipedia Page Marie Prevost

Ten years ago today Heath Ledger was found dead in his Manhattan Apartment. Truly a loss to the Entertainment Community. He left behind an infant daughter he had with x-girlfriend Michelle Williams.  He won a posthumous Oscar for The Dark Knight for his awesome performance as the joker.  Here is his Wikipedia Page Heath Ledger

In 1919 The most perfect lover Wallace Reid was doing a movie titled “valley of the giants” on route to Oregon Reid’s Train was in the accident he had a bad head wound. He was stitched up and given morphine. He became hooked on morphine and the studio Paramount Studios gave him an ample amount of Morphine to keep him working because he was one of their biggest box office money makers.  In 1923 in an effort to get clean Wally checked himself into a sanitarium to get off the morphine. There is also a story that Paramount cut off his access to morphine because his career declined since he became hooked on the drug. So he had no other choice but to check himself into a sanitarium to get off of the Morphine. In any event, he died in the sanitarium from the effects of withdrawal on January 18, 1923. 95 years ago.  He was cremated and interred in the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Glendale when his Widow died in 1977 she was cremated and her ashes were combined with his.  #...

Jack Pickford Jack Pickford (born John Charles Smith; August 18, 1896 – January 3, 1933) was a Canadian-born American actor, film director and producer. He was the younger brother of actresses Mary and Lottie Pickford. After their father deserted the family, all three Pickford children began working as child actors on the stage. Mary Pickford later became a highly popular silent film actress, producer and early Hollywood pioneer. While Jack also appeared in numerous films as the "All American boy next door" and was a fairly popular performer, his popularity never matched that of his sister's as his off screen antics overshadowed his career. By the late 1920s, his career had begun to decline due to his penchant for partying and frequent use of drugs and alcohol. In 1933, Pickford died in Paris of progressive multiple neuritis, aged 36. Early Life The Family was impoverished Charlotte Smith depended on the Children for Income. The Children performed o...