Today's Blind Items - Old Hollywood - Mr. X
#1- This former A list mostly movie actor who was a multiple Academy Award winner/nominee was married multiple times and also had relationships with men. His big thing though was forcing pre-teen girls to have sex with him while on film sets. They were all usually daughters of actresses or studio employees and if the parents complained or threatened to go to the police, the studios would pay them off.
#2 - This still alive and still cranky foreign born actor who is still considered the best in his franchise's history but got his Academy Award win/nomination for something else has a great story. He fought a mobster on the set of a movie while cameras were rolling. The mobster pulled a gun on the actor because the actor was having sex with the mobster's actress girlfriend. The actress has one of the greatest discovery stories ever and was an Academy Award winner/nominee. Oh, and the daughter of the actress ended up killing the mobster.
#3 - 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.
35 comments:
1)Chaplin or Flynn
2, Sean Connery
2-Connery
3. clara bow
2)Sean Connery
3Meyna Loy
1. Richard Burton
it was Clara Bow not Myrna Loy
3)Louise Brooks
Clara Bow - Biography - IMDb
www.imdb.com/name/nm0001966/bio
Clara Gordon Bow, destined to become THE flapper of the 1920's, was born and ... married cowboy star Rex Bell at age 26 and retired from the screen at age 28.
2. Sean Connery/Lana Turner/Cheryl Crane
and Johnny Stompanato
+1. Nicely done.
Errol Flynn, Sean Connery, Clara Bow.
The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian ...
https://books.google.ca/books?isbn=0674018621
Dane Kennedy - 2005 - Biography & Autobiography
Richard Burton and the Victorian World Dane Kennedy ... advanced the view in The Devil Drives (1967) that Burton had bisexual or homosexual proclivities, ... famed for its bayaderes, dancing girls who often served as prostitutes.15 The profusion of ... travels leaves little doubt that he enjoyed their favors wherever he could.
1. Clark Gable
2. Sean Connery, Johnny Stompanato, Lana Turner, Cheryl Crane
When I lived in Hollywood way back in the 80's, I my landlord was a retired wardrobe person who worked for several studios in the "old days" (as she called them.)
Anyway, she once told me about Errol Flynn's reputation for cruising by Hollywood High on his days off, looking for his next sexual conquest.
At the time, I thought she was just retelling gossip, but since then, I think it was more true than not.
Clara wasn't forced to retire. She was mentally ill. That isn't karma for anyone.
There was some actor that corroborated it and said Errol took him on a cruise past the local high school.
Uh, you do realize this refers to Richard Burton, the 19th century explorer, not Richard Burton, the 20th century actor?
+ 1 ... though don't understand why this is a blind. Lots of rumors around Johnny's death. Or they were.
Look at Enty tweeting about MLK! :-)
+1
Ugh flynns own autobiography is disgustingly creepy
I've heard about Flynn's habit of sleeping with underage girls. I think his studio had to pay off several parents.
LMAO!!!!!!
David Niven, iirc.
#2 isn't a blind. That story has been around for years, and openly talked about.
How come I immediately thought Brando for #1 ?
Yes, thank you.
#1 Not Errol Flynn. Flynn never got an AA nod, much less won.
Oh no Derek Harvey was hacked again by sugarbreadmaker she just won't stop!
aha! i KNEW you'd pop in & know these right off the bat @bean! : )
(i'm just catching up on the last few days myself or I would've noticed you earlier)
Yep.
http://web.archive.org/web/20040826081024/http://www.total-movies.com/content_pages/000710_a.asp
That same year the 27-year-old former Tommy Connery (he renamed himself Sean after his favorite movie character Shane), was making Another Time, Another Place (1958) in London with Lana Turner, ten years his senior. There was a strong rumor that Sean and Lana were having an affair on the set. Word got back to Turner's mobster boyfriend Johnny Stompanato who confronted her. 'Its not true and don't come to the studio while we are shooting.' Stompanato ignored her plea and witnessed the filming of a scene where Connery and Turner were embracing on a couch. After several retakes the enraged thug walked into the frame with a handgun and pointed it at Connery, telling him to take his hands off her. But the Scotsman, who grew up getting into fights with gang members in Edinburgh, simply grabbed the gun out of Stompanato's hand, twisted his wrist and sent him running off, yelping in pain. All the while the cameraman kept filming. 'Should I cut yet?' he asked the stunned director.
Soon afterward Connery went to Los Angeles to make Darby O'Gill And The Little People (1959) for Walt Disney. He was shocked to hear that Stompanato was stabbed to death in Turner's rented Beverly Hills home, apparently by her fifteen-year-old daughter Cheryl.
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