Friday, June 10, 2016

Blind Item #11 - Old Hollywood

The mother of this A/A+ list movie actress who died too young lived her entire life off the money she was paid by her daughter's first husband who wanted to marry the underage actress and was willing to pay a lot and did.

26 comments:

Tricia13 said...

Natalie Wood

Tricia13 said...

Richard Gregson the hubby

sandybrook said...

Jean Harlow/William Powell? but they didnt marry but were engaged

Loopymommy said...

Jean Harlow/Charles McGrew

Ettacettera said...

Jean Harlow? (married in teens) Rita Hayworth?

Kno Won Uno said...

Monroe was 16 when she first got married, but it wasn't to a rich guy and her mother was institutionalized. So, yeah...I don't have a point.

Kno Won Uno said...

He was her second husband

Kno Won Uno said...

Did he have money?

Kno Won Uno said...

Hayworth was 19 when she got married. IDK if that was legal w/o parental permission, but probably was.

Kno Won Uno said...

Veronica Lake married at 18 to an art director/set designer. Her mother lived until 1992.
Veronica died in 1973.

Salaam said...

Robert Wagner was Wood's 1st husband - according to the records, she was 19 when they married. He was 27.

d brown said...

I would say Elizabeth Taylor and Nicky Hilton if I didn't have concerns about the "died too young". None of the names mentioned makes sense. Natalie Wood first married Robert Wagner and Natalie ended up financially supporting her mother - so hardly set for her entire life. Jean Harlow's first marriage was to a reasonably well to do family. However, Harlow also had to financially support her mother (apparently Jean's step father was a spender). Rita Hayworth and Marilyn Monroe didn't marry rich first husbands.

Tricia13 said...

Thx @Salaam:) I had forgotten he married her first- then again after Gregson....thought the marriages were successive . Then maybe Wood/Wagner .Her mother Maria definitely seemed capable as she pimped her out, but dunno if 19 is the age reference ,though still a teen technically

Salaam said...

Harlow's 1st husband, Charles McGrew, was an extremely successful bond broker. She was 16 when they married, and required parental consent. I think this is it.

Salaam said...

NP, Tricia. I've had a thing for Robert Wagner for most of my life, so I kinda recall his history :)

Kno Won Uno said...

exactly

Salaam said...

Jayne Mansfield an A/A+? She also married her 1st husband at 16/17.

bush bunny said...

It sounds like Jean Harlow and her pushy stage mother. Jean's last husband, Paul Bern, was found dead of a gunshot wound a few months after they married. All kinds of money changed hands in all directions to make the murder look like suicide. After Jean died of a phony illness, her mother was taken care of for the rest of her life. Rumors were Bern beat Harlow within an inch of her life and ruptured an organ which became infected and led to her death. This kind of cover-up couldn't happen today. The Internet is all-knowing. As an aside, we are back to September/October of last year with the gossip sites reporting Khloe is now frightened enough by Lamar's 'threats' she is considering an Order of Protection. Remember that from last year? History repeating itself.

Guesser said...

Jean Harlow is probably right,but even though the internet is all knowing, money talks. Besides that ,many murders of ordinary people go unsolved everyday.

bush bunny said...

The operative word in your comment is 'ordinary people.' We're talking about the biggest star in Hollywood at the time. Her eras Marilyn. A death/suicide like Marilyn's could not be covered up today regardless of the money involved. I think we learned our lesson through Marilyn Monroe never to be taken as a patsy again.

sandybrook said...

good catch Loopy!

Loopymommy said...

Thanks, Sandy! *blushing*

Sd auntie said...

I thought Jean Harlow died due to complications from a back street abortion?

bush bunny said...

The story over these many decades has been that she died of uremic poisoning causing her kidneys to fail. Allegedly, she had been beaten up by Bern and did not have the injuries treated because of the bad publicity it would cause. The man she was dating at the time was not a sexual partner. If she was pregnant and had an abortion it was not his child. We will never know what killed her. She was adorable and had incredible comic timing. A big loss to Hollywood.

S.D.AUNTIE said...

I aleays wondered why Jean died so young and would watch her movies while growing up. You have some really interesting comments and look forward to more.☺

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