
Charles Boyer- overdose of Seconal; George Sanders- five bottles of Nembutal; Carole Landis- overdose of Seconal; Clara Blandick- overdose of sleeping pills/plastic bag over her head.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 271 | December 6, 2018 9:15 PM |
Clara Blandick would indeed fit the category of "lesser known"
by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 1, 2018 12:31 AM |
Joyce Jameson, one of the "fun girls" always hitting on Barney Fife (but she always called him Bernie!) overdosed.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 3 | December 1, 2018 12:43 AM |
Lesser known to me, Herve Villechaize, in 1993, self-inflicted gunshot wound. Left a suicide note saying he was despondent over longtime health problems.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | December 1, 2018 12:51 AM |
Actress Peg Entwhistle killed herself by jumping off the H of the famous Hollywood sign way back in 1932 when she was only 24. She left a suicide note behind.
One wonders how she got up there in the first place.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 6 | December 1, 2018 12:53 AM |
R6 Should be Peg Entwistle. Made only 1 movie before she killed herself.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 7 | December 1, 2018 12:57 AM |
What would be a lethal prescription type combination to take, seconal etc are impossible to get.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 1, 2018 1:02 AM |
Famous fashion designer Irene (Lentz/Gibbons) rented a room 1129 at the Knickerbocker Hotel and jumped from the window to her death.
She told Doris Day that she was very distraught because Gary Cooper, the only man she had ever loved, had recently died.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 10 | December 1, 2018 1:08 AM |
Paar died of ill health not suicide.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | December 1, 2018 1:13 AM |
[quote] Margot lived at the foot of Canyon Mountain, right outside of Livingston. Like much of Montana, the area was filled with wolves. But instead of fearing them, Margot loved them. She left meat out for the wolves so she could watch them come down the mountain and eat from the safety of her home... She'd asked her closest friends—if they stopped by her place and found her dead—to tell no one, place her naked body in a bedsheet, drag it up Canyon Mountain, and leave her for her other friends, the wolves.[72]
by Anonymous | reply 15 | December 1, 2018 1:28 AM |
[quote]place her naked body in a bedsheet, drag it up Canyon Mountain, and leave her for her other friends, the wolves.
We'll pass.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | December 1, 2018 1:47 AM |
I would do an R10, were I to suicide. Jumping from a considerable height, I mean.
Either that, or I would park my car by the lock n dam, get drunk to the point I could barely move and jump over the side.
Things are great at the moment but I prefer to plan for Worst Case Scenerio.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | December 1, 2018 1:49 AM |
Saoirse Ronan should play Peg Entwistle in the movie.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 19 | December 1, 2018 1:52 AM |
Oops, I meant Dave Garroway.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | December 1, 2018 1:53 AM |
Peg kinda looks like Cynthia Nixon
by Anonymous | reply 23 | December 1, 2018 1:59 AM |
Jessica Savitch's husband, a doctor, committed suicide by hanging in their DC home in 1981. He was only 45. She found him. A little over 2 years later Jessica died in the freak drowning accident.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 24 | December 1, 2018 2:09 AM |
A guy I went to high school with through himself in front of a train. Nobody really knew him all that well.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | December 1, 2018 2:14 AM |
[quote]A guy I went to high school with through himself in front of a train.
Oh, dear!
by Anonymous | reply 26 | December 1, 2018 2:22 AM |
Elizabeth Hartman played the blind girl in A Patch of Blue with Shelley Winters as her abusive mother, Sydney Poitier played her friend.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | December 1, 2018 2:28 AM |
Black actress Dorothy Dandridge had a fairly successful career in Hollywood back in the day then fell on hard times.
She was found dead in her apartment at only age 42. A blood clot was initially thought to have killed her but barbiturate poisoning, 4 times the normal amount, was found in her bloodstream. She was despondent and it may have been suicide or an accidental overdose. Tragic at any rate.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 28 | December 1, 2018 2:28 AM |
Elizabeth Hartman was only 43 when she committed suicide.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | December 1, 2018 2:29 AM |
Keith Andes, asphyxiation
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 30 | December 1, 2018 2:30 AM |
R26 LOL Too many Friday night drinks. Why can't you edit posts on here?
by Anonymous | reply 31 | December 1, 2018 2:35 AM |
Maggie McNamara ("The Moon is Blue," "Three Coins in the Fountain"), barbiturate overdose.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 32 | December 1, 2018 2:43 AM |
Ona Munson, barbiturate oberdose
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 33 | December 1, 2018 2:49 AM |
Dorothy Abbott Gia Allemand Marion Aye Faith Bacon Janet Banzet Barbara Bates Simone Battle Brenda Benet Barbara Bennett Mary Kay Bergman Laurie Bird Clara Blandick Adele Blood Clara Bloodgood Sarah Brackett May Brookyn Marilyn Brown (actress) Carolyn Craig Bella Darvi Dolly Sisters Andrea Feldman Aleta Freel Dorothy Hale Lois Hamilton Elizabeth Hartman Margaux Hemingway Evelyn Hoey Libby Holman Lisa Howard (reporter) Lorraine Huling Maynard Leona Hutton Phyllis Hyman Joyce Jameson Isabel Jewell Jiah Khan Margot Kidder Allyn King Carole Landis Nora Lane Anna Laughlin Pepi Lederer Lisa Lynn Masters Kitty McHugh Maggie McNamara Eve Miller Ona Munson Evelyn Nelson Christine Norman Susan Peters Rosamond Pinchot Dana Plato Dora Knowlton Ranous Marvel Rea Adele Ritchie Stevie Ryan Jean Seberg Lillian Sinnott Vera Sisson Robin Stille Nell Theobald Helen Twelvetrees Kelly Jean Van Dyke Lupe Vélez Marie Walcamp Debbie Weems Kim Winona
by Anonymous | reply 34 | December 1, 2018 2:51 AM |
Dorothy Dandrige is such a tragic story. Breaks my heart.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | December 1, 2018 2:58 AM |
Edward Platt (the Chief on GET SMART)
Ed Flanders (ST. ELSEWHERE)
Brian Keith (FAMILY AFFAIR)
by Anonymous | reply 37 | December 1, 2018 3:08 AM |
I'm getting Kirsten Dunst vibes from the Peg Entwhistle pic in R7.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | December 1, 2018 3:18 AM |
JonBenet Ramsey, talking back to her Christian mother.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | December 1, 2018 3:24 AM |
Peg Entwhistle is a lesser-known suicide?
Her leap off the Hollywood sign is fucking legend and the ultimate metaphor for failure and despondency in a cutthroat entertainment industry.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | December 1, 2018 3:32 AM |
At age 72 actor David Carradine was found dead by hanging in the closet of his hotel room overseas. Was it suicide or autoerotic kink?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 42 | December 1, 2018 3:36 AM |
R41 It's Peg ENTWISTLE! No 'h'.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 43 | December 1, 2018 3:40 AM |
A list of people (mostly teenagers) who have committed suicide due to bullying.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 44 | December 1, 2018 3:48 AM |
Charles Boyer committed suicide?
by Anonymous | reply 45 | December 1, 2018 3:57 AM |
Marilyn Monroe. Was it suicide? An accidental overdose? Or a sinister political plot to silence her?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 46 | December 1, 2018 4:00 AM |
Marilyn Monroe was murdered.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | December 1, 2018 4:03 AM |
Not to be the thread police, but I would hardly call MM's death "lesser known," and the debate over her cause of death seems like a topic for a whole other thread
by Anonymous | reply 48 | December 1, 2018 4:03 AM |
If in 2018 you still believe that Monroe was murdered..then you really know absolutely nothing about her except what you've read in tawdry grocery store tabloids.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | December 1, 2018 4:07 AM |
Demi Moore's suicide started with The Scarlet Letter followed by a string other bombs.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 50 | December 1, 2018 4:08 AM |
She was a druggie and drinker and suffered from depression and anxiety. Doesn’t mean she wasn’t murdered.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | December 1, 2018 4:09 AM |
Demi Moore's life force began to leave her once Ashton's cock was no longer plugging up her hole of loneliness and despair.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | December 1, 2018 4:13 AM |
After reading this thread, I’m curious what DL’s idea of a “widely-known suicide” would be.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | December 1, 2018 4:14 AM |
Marlon Brando's tragic daughter Cheyenne who hung herself at only age 25. So many family problems and Brando was a lousy father with too many children.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | December 1, 2018 4:18 AM |
Is Donny Hathaway lesser known?
by Anonymous | reply 55 | December 1, 2018 4:27 AM |
[quote]Saoirse Ronan should play Peg Entwistle in the movie.
What movie?
by Anonymous | reply 56 | December 1, 2018 4:27 AM |
What a cheery little thread for a Friday evening!
And my contribution is Capucine. And Brando's daughter HANGED herself. She wasn't hung as her father reputedly was.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | December 1, 2018 4:45 AM |
Maggie McNamara's suicide was especially shocking, and a waste. Also Jon Hall.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | December 1, 2018 4:55 AM |
David Carradine's suicide (whether intentional or not) was tragic. It was made worse when joked about at the following Academy Awards. I thought it was probably one of the most tasteless moments during an Oscar telecast.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | December 1, 2018 4:58 AM |
Wow, R34, Dorothy Winona had a LOT of middle names!
by Anonymous | reply 61 | December 1, 2018 4:58 AM |
[54] Marlon Brando's tragic daughter Cheyenne who hung herself at only age 25. It's who HANGED herself.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | December 1, 2018 5:24 AM |
Helena Belmonte, Filipina-American model and socialite, jumped from the 28th floor of the Renaissance Tower in Ortigas Center.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 63 | December 1, 2018 6:23 AM |
David Strickland, actor on the 90s sitcom Suddenly Susan.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 64 | December 1, 2018 6:36 AM |
Barbara Bates, the actress who played Phoebe, the devious teenage fan girl in the last scenes of "All About Eve," battled lifelong depression. She was despondent over the death of her husband and died of carbon monoxide poisoning in 1969. She was 43 years old.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | December 1, 2018 6:39 AM |
Brian Keith was the stepson of Peg Entwhistle. There was an access road that led up to the Hollywood sign but it's been closed for many years.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | December 1, 2018 6:45 AM |
Carroll O'Conner's son Hugh.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 69 | December 1, 2018 6:46 AM |
Sylvia Plath's son Nicholas hanged himself.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 70 | December 1, 2018 6:48 AM |
It's rumored that Jackie Onassis was an assisted suicide. Does that count?
by Anonymous | reply 71 | December 1, 2018 6:49 AM |
Well, the Datalounge sure seems to know a lot about this topic.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | December 1, 2018 6:50 AM |
I think Jean Seberg's ex husband, Romain Gary, also killed himself. And eventually so did their son.
R45, Boyer took poison after his wife of many years died. His character in "All This and Heaven Too," which was based on an actual 19th-century French scandal, did the same. Some years earlier Boyer's only child shot himself fatally.
Louis Jourdan's only son
Jennifer Jones' daughter
One of Gregory Peck's sons?
At least one of Bing Crosby's sons with Dixie Lee
Kirk Douglas' son (Eric?)
by Anonymous | reply 73 | December 1, 2018 7:16 AM |
Ray Milland's son
One of Judy Garland's sisters
Actor Carlos Thompson, widower of Lili Palmer
Billy Haines' widower (Jimmy Shields?)
by Anonymous | reply 75 | December 1, 2018 7:47 AM |
Florence Lawrence, the Biograph Girl (ant paste)
by Anonymous | reply 76 | December 1, 2018 10:03 AM |
Is Michael Hutchence a lesser known person? He did the suicide or was it auto-erotic asphyxiation thing like David Carradine.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | December 1, 2018 10:28 AM |
R55 Donny Hathaway was a schizophrenic who gradually deteriorated. I don’t think he really knew what he was doing.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | December 1, 2018 11:32 AM |
Actor/producer Richard Kollmar committed suicide five years after the mysterious death of his wife, DL fave Dorothy Kilgallen.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | December 1, 2018 11:41 AM |
Mercedes McCambridge's son killed his wife, two daughters and himself in 1987.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | December 1, 2018 11:46 AM |
"At least one of Bing Crosby's sons with Dixie Lee "
I thought they all killed themselves eventually?
Der Bingle, what a piece of work he was...
by Anonymous | reply 81 | December 1, 2018 12:59 PM |
Bing Crosby's sons Dennis and Lindsay both committed suicide, while Phillip and Gary died in their 60s of cancer.
His kids with Kathryn are all still alive, probably because he was too old by then to be the psychotic bastard he had been to his first four children and their mother.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | December 1, 2018 3:14 PM |
stand-up comic Richard Jeni
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 83 | December 1, 2018 3:19 PM |
Is that really true about Keith Andes? What a shame. He was so hot.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | December 1, 2018 3:26 PM |
R84 yes, he was suffering from cancer.
Which leads me to Richard Farnsworth (The Straight Story, Anne of Green Gables), who shot himself because of his incurable cancer just months after he lost the Oscar to Kevin Spacey.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | December 1, 2018 3:38 PM |
Director suicides:
Tony Scott (Top Gun, True Romance, Crimson Tide)
James Whale (Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Invisible Man, Showboat)
W.S. Van Dyke (The Thin Man, Tarzan, San Francisco)
Richard Quine (Bell Book & Candle, Suzie Wong, How to Murder Your Wife)
by Anonymous | reply 86 | December 1, 2018 3:39 PM |
I tried... but then I died anyway.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 87 | December 1, 2018 3:45 PM |
I guess Gig Young's wasn't a lesser known suicide... but I'll mention it anyway because I just happened to be walking down 57th street when they were taking his body away.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | December 1, 2018 3:45 PM |
I had no idea WS Van Dyke killed himself. Looked it up and apparently he was a Christian Scientist who refused treatment for cancer, and when things got grim he offed himself.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | December 1, 2018 3:47 PM |
So Robert Young tried to kill himself with car exhaust after calling a tow truck company to come help him with his car? Seems inefficient somehow.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | December 1, 2018 3:48 PM |
I think Keith Andes was in his mid 80s.
Pedro Armendariz, one of the unlucky people involved in "The Conqueror," which was filmed in irradiated Nevada, committed suicide after his cancer was diagnosed.
R88, wow! Gig Young was a beautiful young man.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | December 1, 2018 3:50 PM |
Re Gig Young: It as a murder/suicide. He killed his new wife first less than a month after the wedding, then shot himself.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | December 1, 2018 3:52 PM |
Frank Sinatra got punched in the face by Rex Harrison for implying he was responsible for Carole Landis’ death. Then when he took the punch and laughed, Harrison punched him again,
by Anonymous | reply 93 | December 1, 2018 3:54 PM |
Rex Harrison behaved so suspiciously after Landis's death that, even though Sinatra was an utter bastard, he may not have been wrong.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | December 1, 2018 4:00 PM |
Inger Stevens, who shared a sexy hair cutting scene with Harry Belafonte in the post-apocalyptic THE WORLD THE FLESH AND THE DEVIL, ODed on barbiturates.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 95 | December 1, 2018 4:00 PM |
Albert Salmi, who was in the original "Bus Stop," with Kim Stanley, and was married for several years to Peggy Ann Garner, shot his estranged second wife, then himself. He had chronic depression.
R93, quite soon after Landis' death, Harrison and Llili Palmer, his wife, made a movie called "The Long Dark Hall," about a married man who is falsely accused of murdering his mistress. Seems hard to believe that, so maybe that's not exact
by Anonymous | reply 96 | December 1, 2018 4:02 PM |
John F Kennedy. He suffered a lot of guilt after shaking his son to death (covered up of course) and he had a tiny ear bomb planted in his hair and when it exploded they blamed Oswald (again a cover up).
by Anonymous | reply 97 | December 1, 2018 4:12 PM |
No, Mary Tyler Moore's son, Richie Meeker, did not commit suicide. He died when a gun he was playing with accidentally discharged.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | December 1, 2018 4:15 PM |
English actor Alan Lake, the third husband of Diana Dors (aka the British Marilyn Monroe), shot himself several months after she succumbed to ovarian cancer. They had been married for 16 years.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | December 1, 2018 4:15 PM |
Andrew Koenig played Boner, best friend of Kirk Cameron's character on Growing Pains. Andrew hanged himself.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 100 | December 1, 2018 4:17 PM |
Donald Trump died after falling into a money laundering machine.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | December 1, 2018 4:20 PM |
R30, I had no idea about Keith Andes. Loved him in Clash By Night. His character could have been the rough asshole type but had some complexity to him.
Oh, wait: He killed himself at 85! That's not suicide-suicide, as Whoopi would say. I'll do that probably.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | December 1, 2018 4:21 PM |
R100, his father was Walter Koenig, Chekov in Star Trek.
I think that when the person had a terminal illness, there's a qualitative difference.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | December 1, 2018 4:32 PM |
Sawyer Sweeten, who played twin Geoffrey Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond, killed himself with a gun in 2015 at age 19.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 104 | December 1, 2018 4:42 PM |
Sawyer Sweeten reportedly had financial problems and an aunt said that depression and mental illness runs in the family.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | December 1, 2018 4:51 PM |
Actor Rick Jason ("Combat!").
by Anonymous | reply 107 | December 1, 2018 4:54 PM |
Lee Thompson Young, star of the Disney Channel's THE FAMOUS JETT JACKSON and a lead on RIZZOLI & ISLES, shot himself a few years back. He was bipolar.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | December 1, 2018 5:01 PM |
So many barbiturate over dose deaths in the 50s--60s, hard to tell if they were accidental because the drugs were so strong and folks were not adequately warned or treated for dependency, or if these handy drugs just made it super easy for depressed people to off themselves. (Or to be helped along the OD path by others, in some instances.) I also wonder about falling deaths...there always seems to be room to consider a push rather than a jump.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | December 1, 2018 5:07 PM |
Abbie Hoffman. He suffered from bipolar disorder
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 110 | December 1, 2018 5:11 PM |
Jason Raize played the adult Simba in the Broadway stage musical version of The Lion King. He was just 28 years old when he hanged himself. There were rumors he was using drugs and was depressed. Sad.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 111 | December 1, 2018 5:18 PM |
Did anyone uncover why Tony Scott did it. At the time there was talk of brain cancer which the familty strongly denied.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | December 1, 2018 5:25 PM |
This list contains a lot of "Who's that?" actors.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 113 | December 1, 2018 5:34 PM |
Jeff Loeffelhoz, an actor who chronicled episodes of backstage bullying before he died.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 114 | December 1, 2018 5:38 PM |
Yugoslav hottie Bekim Fehmiu, who shagged DL icon Olivia de Havilland in the infamously bad "The Adventurers" (which started and ended his Hollywood film career).
Shot himself in the head.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 115 | December 1, 2018 5:46 PM |
R94, Rachel Roberts, a former Mrs. Rex Harrison, also committed suicide.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | December 1, 2018 6:13 PM |
R92, His real name was Byron Barr. "Gig Young" was the name of his character in his film debut, "The Gay Sisters". He liked the name and took it as his own.
BTW, "The Gay Sisters" starred Barbara Stanwyck.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | December 1, 2018 6:18 PM |
Soap actor Nick Santino took an overdose of sleeping pills. He was despondent over euthanizing his beloved pitbull terrier, Rocco. "Today, I betrayed my best friend," his suicide note read. "Rocco trusted me and I failed him."
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 118 | December 1, 2018 6:23 PM |
R118, Does Eric Braeden own a dog?
by Anonymous | reply 119 | December 1, 2018 6:34 PM |
MM, accidental death brought about by an out of control, unprofessional quack, Dr Greenson, and her crazed bizarre housekeeper. What throws everybody off the track is Marilyn had several other brushes of taking too many sleeping pills,. What people never understand is MM had an encylopedic knowlege of prescription meds and knew precisely her tolerance, past episodes were bids for sympathy and attn. On the fatal night she wasnt aware of the interraction between nembutal and chloral hydrate and Eunice Murray may have given too high doseage of the chloral hydrate. MM had been taking a steady dose of nembutal thruout the day ( apparently not known to Greenson) to block out medicate the extreme unpleasantness of having told Murray it was her last day on the job and having told Greenson she was terminating therapy. It was a very complicated last few days in the life of MM and those around her failed her.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | December 1, 2018 7:31 PM |
Some of the former NFL player suicides before Aaron Hernandez were lesser known.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 122 | December 1, 2018 7:54 PM |
Gwyneth Paltrow, died of ODing on fried chicken skin.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | December 1, 2018 7:58 PM |
r118 So another death by pit bull...
by Anonymous | reply 124 | December 2, 2018 2:33 AM |
Model/actress Lucy Gordon, she was one of the faces of Cover Girl in the late 90s
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 125 | December 2, 2018 3:46 AM |
Then there are all the people who made "unsuccessful" suicide attempts. And some of,those were half hearted. When they weren't half hearted, it was because of the intervention of others that the attempt was unsuccessful. So those were almost-suicides.
Susan Hayward
Judy Garland
Alan Ladd the first time?
Other than Phil Hartman's wife, isn't it usually the male partner who causes the murder-suicide?
by Anonymous | reply 126 | December 2, 2018 3:57 AM |
Ray Combs, Former Host of 'Family Feud,' Dead of Suicide... June 03, 1996
by Anonymous | reply 127 | December 2, 2018 4:14 AM |
R89 Apparently Jean Seberg's son with Romain Gary (Alexandre Diego Gary) is still alive.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 128 | December 2, 2018 4:17 AM |
^ Oops, I meant to reply to R73.
by Anonymous | reply 129 | December 2, 2018 4:18 AM |
[quote] Peg Entwhistle is a lesser-known suicide?
[quote] Her leap off the Hollywood sign is fucking legend and the ultimate metaphor for failure and despondency in a cutthroat entertainment industry.
r41, meet irony.
Irony, meet r41.
by Anonymous | reply 130 | December 2, 2018 4:18 AM |
R130, Bette Davis often said that it was seeing Peg Entwistle in a play that convinced her to become an actress.
by Anonymous | reply 131 | December 2, 2018 12:37 PM |
Peg Entwistle was once the stepmother of Brian Keith, who also committed suicide.
by Anonymous | reply 132 | December 2, 2018 12:38 PM |
In 1979, actress Laurie Bird committed suicide by taking an overdose of Valium in the apartment she shared with Art Garfunkel in New York.
by Anonymous | reply 133 | December 2, 2018 1:42 PM |
Dorothy Hale, Ziegfeld showgirl, jumped in 1938 from her luxury NYC suite wearing her favorite black dress. Clare Booth Luce asked Frida Kahlo to do a portrait to give to her mother, she painted the actual event and Clare was horrified and hid the painting for decades.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 134 | December 2, 2018 3:09 PM |
That Frida! What a caution!
by Anonymous | reply 135 | December 2, 2018 3:10 PM |
Marie Osmond's son, Michael, jumped to his death at the age of 18.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 136 | December 2, 2018 3:14 PM |
[quote] "Re Gig Young: It as a murder/suicide. He killed his new wife first less than a month after the wedding, then shot himself. —Anonymous" R92
Boy, did I dodge a bullet.
by Anonymous | reply 137 | December 2, 2018 3:46 PM |
Anderson Cooper's brother killed himself. Maybe not lesser known; rather well known.
Flipside: Judee Sill, a 70s singer whom Brian Eno said wrote a perfect song ("The Kiss"), is considered to have killed herself but it's disputed. It could have been an accidental overdose. What was taken to be a suicide note could have been lyrics and not a goodbye, cruel world.
by Anonymous | reply 138 | December 2, 2018 3:52 PM |
Songwriter Bob Merrill (who collaborated on Funny Girl with Jule Styne but sometimes wrote the music as well as the lyrics) killed himself because of a terminal debilitating illness.
As I understand it, he drove into the Hollywood hills and used a shotgun.
by Anonymous | reply 139 | December 2, 2018 3:52 PM |
Wow, R134, that’s a fascinating story — thank you for sharing!
by Anonymous | reply 140 | December 2, 2018 3:55 PM |
^^^Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that Merrill wrote some of the Funny Girl music. His music-and-lyrics shows include New Girl In Town, Take Me Along, The Prince Of Grand Street, the one about Julie Wilson forced to sew for the Nazis, and others.
by Anonymous | reply 141 | December 2, 2018 3:55 PM |
Edgar Rosenberg, second husband of Joan Rivers, overdosed. That was a shocker, if I recall.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 142 | December 2, 2018 4:55 PM |
R141, Carnival, as well, which included "Love Makes the World Go Round"
by Anonymous | reply 143 | December 2, 2018 5:48 PM |
Clara Blandick, who played Auntie Em in The Wizard of Oz, killed herself in 1962. Despondent over her deteriorating health, she committed suicide through asphyxiation.
by Anonymous | reply 144 | December 2, 2018 6:08 PM |
Pete Duel, star of "Alias Smith and Jones" and "Love On A Rooftop". Gun shot.
by Anonymous | reply 145 | December 2, 2018 6:47 PM |
Peter Duel was one of my earliest childhood mancrushes. I remember being so sad that he had killed himself.
by Anonymous | reply 146 | December 2, 2018 6:53 PM |
Ziegfeld Girl, Allyn King, tried to maintain the strict weight and measurement demands as stipulated in her contract, by taking diet pills and nearly starving to death. This led to a two-year stint in a sanitarium. When she was released, she went to live with her aunt in Greenwich Village. Unable to meet her ideal weight, she leapt from her aunt's fifth story apartment and landed in the courtyard, breaking limbs and fracturing her skull. She died two days later in hospital.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 147 | December 2, 2018 7:21 PM |
Rita Hayworth's grandson. Andrew Embiricos? His mother was Yasmin Khan.
OT early in her career, Allyn King replaced in a Ziegfeld show Justine Johnson, who went on to have a career as a medical researcher and helped to invent the ubiquitous slow-drip IV and to discover a cure for syphilis. And was the first wife of Walter Wanger, who shot the maybe-lover of his wife Joan Bennett.
by Anonymous | reply 148 | December 2, 2018 8:09 PM |
Richard Belzer's father and brother both committed suicide. That must take a brutal toll on him.
by Anonymous | reply 149 | December 2, 2018 9:20 PM |
Bella Darvi, who was given her stage name by her mentors, DARryl Zanuck and his wife, VIrginia, committed suicide by turning on the gas on her stovetop in her Monte Carlo apartment. Her decomposed body was discovered ten days later.
A colorful personality, Bella lived with the Zanucks, and was for a time Virginia Zanuck's best friend and confidante until the missus discovered that Darvi and Zanuck were canoodling behind her back. Virginia threw her out and threatened that her former galpal would never work in Hollywood again. Darvi fled to France and Zanuck followed, but a year later, he would dump her over her indiscreet affairs with women. However, he would continue to bail her out of her gambling debts, until he had had enough and refused. She killed herself immediately afterwards.
Speaking about Darvi, whose most famous role was as the courtesan Nefer in "The Egyptian," co-star Jean Simmons reportedly sneered, "Now there was an actress who nefer was."
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 150 | December 2, 2018 9:27 PM |
Capucine jumped off 8th floor apartment.
by Anonymous | reply 151 | December 2, 2018 10:21 PM |
R149, If they looked like him, it's understandable.
by Anonymous | reply 152 | December 3, 2018 12:50 AM |
I had no idea about Lee Thompson Young, R108. He was cute.
by Anonymous | reply 153 | December 3, 2018 1:02 AM |
Actor David Strickland was on Suddenly Susan, flew to Las Vegas and partied for days with Andy Dick. Hired a prostitute, drank six beers and then hung himself with a bed sheet. Brooke Shields hired the detective who discovered his body. Always thought he was a cutie.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 154 | December 3, 2018 2:39 AM |
^A male or female prostitute?
by Anonymous | reply 155 | December 3, 2018 8:12 PM |
Brian Keith from Family Affair
by Anonymous | reply 156 | December 3, 2018 10:26 PM |
A huge loss in the world of cult/underground punk music, wild rebellious vocalist Mutsumi ”623” Takahashi of the all-female funk metal/noise/avante-garde band SUPER JUNKY MONKEY. It’s such a shame, she was so beautiful and fierce and unlike any other female performer before or since. She was only just 30 years old when she died and left her bandmates/friends totally heartbroken and in shock, with no one having any idea to this day why she committed suicide.
From the wiki:
[quote] On February 5, 1999, Mutsumi Fukuhara (nee Takahashi) committed suicide by leaping from the balcony of her apartment in Osaka, leaving behind her husband and one-year-old son. The other band members decided not to continue without her and instead moved on to other projects.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 157 | December 3, 2018 11:08 PM |
Leslie Cheung, very popular and cute bi/gay actor/singer, jumped after an affair ended. Was in Happy Together with Tony Leung.
by Anonymous | reply 158 | December 4, 2018 12:02 AM |
James Leo Herlihy, the author of the novel "Midnight Cowboy." He was gay and a close friend of playwright Tennessee Williams, who served as his mentor. He took an overdose of pills at age 36.
by Anonymous | reply 159 | December 4, 2018 12:12 AM |
Lupe Velez is one of my fave suicide stories. Took an overdose of sleeping pills, woke up feeling nauseated, ran to throw up in the toilet, and drowned there.
by Anonymous | reply 160 | December 4, 2018 12:12 AM |
The drowning part has pretty much been disproved as urban myth. But she did die. She was a hot one. Had an affair with young Gaary Cooper and makeup had to cover the scratches she left. The two of them made a film called "Wolf Song. " There's a nude shot of him (but he's partially obscured by shrubs) in that.
by Anonymous | reply 161 | December 4, 2018 12:18 AM |
She was also with Johnny Weissmuller (sp?) and he might have been the one with the scratches.
by Anonymous | reply 162 | December 4, 2018 1:34 AM |
That was one of the bullshit stories that was in "Hollywood Babylon", that Lupe Velez, violently sick from ingesting a bottle of sleeping pills after eating a spicy last supper, ran to to the bathroom, slipped, and died with her head in the toilet bow. I wonder how Kenneth Anger thought that one up?
by Anonymous | reply 163 | December 4, 2018 1:47 AM |
Correction: James Leo Herlihy died at 66, not 36. I guess more people have seen the movie than read the book, but the novel "Midnight Cowboy" is truly a memorable piece of work.
by Anonymous | reply 164 | December 4, 2018 1:51 AM |
It was a big story at the time, but I don't know if many people today are aware of suicide of Pete Duel. He was only 31 when he killed himself with a gunshot to the head. It really was a shock, this handsome, talented, successful young actor destroying himself. Nobody knew that he really was a hot mess; alcoholic, prone to depression, and suffering epileptic seizures. He was trying to control his drinking but on the night he killed himself he was blind drunk, which I guess made him fool around with the gun. Pete Duel; so talented, so good looking, so doomed.
by Anonymous | reply 165 | December 4, 2018 1:58 AM |
Actress Margaret Sullavan... barbituate (sp) overdose
by Anonymous | reply 166 | December 4, 2018 1:59 AM |
Silent film actress Florence Lawrence, dubbed "The First Film Star," committed suicide by ingesting ant paste.
by Anonymous | reply 167 | December 4, 2018 2:15 AM |
R166, In a New Haven hotel room during out of town previews of the play Sweet Love Remember'd. She was replaced by DL fave Arlene Francis, the wife of the play's co-producer, Martin Gabel.
by Anonymous | reply 168 | December 4, 2018 2:37 AM |
By what means will Pete Davidson join this list?
by Anonymous | reply 169 | December 4, 2018 3:46 AM |
Chester Morris, hunky leading man in the 30s, and later star of the "Boston Blackie" series, killed himself when facing a terminal illness.
by Anonymous | reply 170 | December 4, 2018 3:57 AM |
[quote]Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.
by Anonymous | reply 171 | December 4, 2018 4:30 AM |
Roger Ailes, by means of a swan-dive through the French doors in his second-story bathroom, clad only in a monogrammed terrycloth bathrobe, his large skull splitting like an overripe cantaloupe on the brightly painted Spanish tiles around the pool
by Anonymous | reply 172 | December 4, 2018 4:39 AM |
Don't do it, George. You're an Oscar° winner!
by Anonymous | reply 173 | December 4, 2018 4:39 AM |
R172, I’ve heard that... I wonder if it’s true. It would not surprise me at all.
by Anonymous | reply 174 | December 4, 2018 4:44 AM |
Silent movie star Max Linder (41), the first international superstar, in a supposed suicide pact with his young wife Hélène (19). They drank Veronal, injected morphine, and slashed their wrists. However, some believe that it was actually a murder-suicide, with Linder either murdering his young bride or coercing her into suicide.
by Anonymous | reply 175 | December 4, 2018 4:50 AM |
R165 Pete Duel, a real cutie, shot and killed himself on December 31st, the last day of the year - I guess he went out with a bang (Ouch).
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 176 | December 4, 2018 4:53 AM |
JFK Jr. Lesser known suicides, OP said.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 178 | December 4, 2018 5:09 AM |
Adele Ritchie, former vaudeville star and one-time rival of Lillian Russell, was apparently incensed that her friend and companion, socialite Doris Miller received an invitation to a social event, and Ritchie did not. Ritchie shot poor Doris in the back, killing her, before turning the gun on herself.
by Anonymous | reply 180 | December 4, 2018 5:12 AM |
A real bitchy Ritchie got twitchy, did she?1
by Anonymous | reply 181 | December 4, 2018 5:16 AM |
So sorry because we've been through it but just 😂 at R118.
by Anonymous | reply 182 | December 4, 2018 5:25 AM |
Jerzy Kosinski who wrote The Painted Bird and Being There. He took a lethal dose of booze and pills then wrapped a plastic bag around his head.
by Anonymous | reply 183 | December 4, 2018 5:28 AM |
Billy Bixbie's ex-wife, Brenda Benet. On April 7, 1982, she died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at her home in Los Angeles. She was 36. This was after their only son died in childhood. Very sad.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 185 | December 4, 2018 5:33 AM |
R98
That's what MTM wanted to believe; most thought the son's death was a suicide. MTM also refused to believe that her sister's death which was an OD was suicide. MTM claimed that sis didn't realize she'd taken all of the pills.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 186 | December 4, 2018 5:39 AM |
[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 188 | December 4, 2018 5:42 AM |
Janet Leigh's father committed suicide at age 54 in 1961.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 189 | December 4, 2018 5:43 AM |
Margaret Sullavan committed suicide by ODing on New Years Day 1960 in her suite at the Taft Hotel in New Haven.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 190 | December 4, 2018 5:45 AM |
William Powell's son committed suicide at age 43 in 1968.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 192 | December 4, 2018 5:48 AM |
Ned Doheny, his wife Lucy, and their five children moved into their new home, Greystone Mansion when tragedy struck. On the night of February 16, 1929, Doheny was found dead in a guest bedroom in the east wing of the mansion, alongside his longtime friend and hired assistant, Hugh Plunkett. Murder/ Suicide. They’re buried just feet from each other at Forest Lawn Glendale.
by Anonymous | reply 193 | December 4, 2018 5:49 AM |
Brian Keith, who coincidentally was Peg Entwistle's step-son committed suicide with a gun when he could no longer stand the pain from his cancer.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 194 | December 4, 2018 5:50 AM |
[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 195 | December 4, 2018 5:51 AM |
Charles Boyer's only child, son Michael committed suicide in 1965 at age 21, 13 years before his father did same.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 196 | December 4, 2018 5:53 AM |
Hispanic Björk stalker. Sent her an acid spray package then killed himself. Wore camo makeup and shaved his head. You can find the full end video on certain sites. Disturbing. Richard LopeZ
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 198 | December 4, 2018 5:56 AM |
R198 Damn, I had to check out that video on liveleak and I didn't know he was actually gonna shoot himself in the head at the end. It wasn't really graphic but it's disturbing as fuck.
by Anonymous | reply 201 | December 4, 2018 6:03 AM |
More of a forgotten with time vs. less known but still Freddie Prinze' suicide in 1978 was a big story at the time.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 202 | December 4, 2018 6:03 AM |
Dana Plato's son committed suicide 11 years after she did.
by Anonymous | reply 203 | December 4, 2018 6:25 AM |
Plasmatics, Wendy O Williams. Gunshot.
by Anonymous | reply 204 | December 4, 2018 6:27 AM |
Don Cornelius, the host of Soul Train. Ailing, and in increasing pain as he aged, he shot himself.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 205 | December 4, 2018 6:28 AM |
R199, per wiki, Brenda Frazier died of bone cancer at 60, but had made some 30 suicide attempts.
by Anonymous | reply 206 | December 4, 2018 7:12 AM |
R171... That was George Sanders, I believe..
by Anonymous | reply 207 | December 4, 2018 7:13 AM |
R207, Yes, after having been married to two of the Gabor sisters, Zsa Zsa and Magda.
by Anonymous | reply 208 | December 4, 2018 7:16 AM |
R204... I didn't know that, even though her death was in 1998 (Googled it). One of my bosses back in the 80s was a big fan of the Plasmatics. He was a photographer at their concerts.
by Anonymous | reply 209 | December 4, 2018 7:20 AM |
Ann Woodward, after learning that Truman Capote was about to rehash in Esquire Magazine the shooting death of her husband by her in the 1950s, when she thought he was a "prowler".
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 210 | December 4, 2018 7:22 AM |
She would have died all over again when Dominick Dunne used her story for The Two Mrs. Grenvilles.
by Anonymous | reply 211 | December 4, 2018 8:21 AM |
Michael Mantenuto, up-and-coming young actor/model who worked for D is ney and prior to that a star hockey prodigy in College. Poor guy had been in the Special Forces for several years on leaving the Entertainment business, and came back with major PTSD from which he seemed to be slowly recovering.
He was found in his car with a suicide note and a gun loaded with two bullets parked in a Washington Park lot, with a gunshot wound to the head. He left behind a wife and a young daughter, his battalion (he was a Sergeant) and a ton of grieving friends & former costars. He was only 35 when he died.
We had a slow DL thread about him a few years ago.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 212 | December 4, 2018 11:06 AM |
Hey, has any one mentioned Brian Keith???
by Anonymous | reply 213 | December 4, 2018 1:16 PM |
WTF has happened to Datalounge...half the thread is about Brian Keith and Peg Entwistle....yet no mention of Nick Adams?
by Anonymous | reply 216 | December 4, 2018 1:26 PM |
That wasn't deemed suicide, iirc. Either accident or murder.
by Anonymous | reply 217 | December 4, 2018 2:13 PM |
Fred Herko in 1964. Part of the avant grade Andy Warhol crows. Drug adducted ballet dancer who in his shirt life did mange to start a ballet company. Leaped out of a window whilst rehearsing a dance in a friend' apartment. The leap was part of the dance, heck the "Fred Herko danced out of a window" quips about his suicide. Andy Warhol was said to lament that he wasn't there to film "the leap".
by Anonymous | reply 218 | December 4, 2018 2:44 PM |
Helen Twelvetrees, popular film actress of the early 30s. An overdose in the 50s. Health problems,
by Anonymous | reply 219 | December 4, 2018 2:44 PM |
Former CEO of the Red Robin restaurant chain:
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 220 | December 4, 2018 5:09 PM |
Morbid question but I’ll ask; I wonder why - with some exceptions - the preferred methods of suicidal women are overwhelmingly ‘jumping from high places’ or poisoning/ODing, while men seem to favor shooting or stabbing themselves?
by Anonymous | reply 221 | December 4, 2018 6:21 PM |
[quote]while men seem to favor shooting or stabbing themselves?
The hardcore one in that regard is Charles Rocket...he slit his own throat.
by Anonymous | reply 222 | December 4, 2018 7:52 PM |
Speaking of Brian Keith, I just realized he died a year before the release of THE PARENT TRAP remake starring Lindsay Lohan. I wonder what he would've thought?
by Anonymous | reply 223 | December 4, 2018 7:55 PM |
Per wiki, his frequent co-star and roommate at the time of his death was smokin' Michael Forest.
by Anonymous | reply 225 | December 5, 2018 2:17 AM |
NASCAR driver Dick Trickle. Called 911 and told them there was going to be a dead body, when dispatch asked whose body he replied, "mine".
He should be a DL icon just because of his name.
by Anonymous | reply 226 | December 5, 2018 2:45 AM |
Margaret Ray, the woman who stalked David Letterman in the 1980s, kneeled in front of an oncoming train.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 227 | December 5, 2018 2:50 AM |
I have a biography of Pete Duel, "Pete Duel" by Paul Green. It's a good biography for anyone interested in him. This thread made me start reading through it again, and it mentioned that he was on an episode of "Mickey", a short lived tv series starring Mickey Rooney. Although Rooney was the star of the show, it featured a Chinese actor named Sammee Tong as Rooney's handyman. He was popular with audiences; he had a loyal fan base from his time on 'Bachelor Father." ABC was seriously leaning towards picking up the remaining six shows of the season when news came that Sammee Tong had committed suicide from an overdose. Heavy gambling debts and connections to the mob were cited as reasons. The show was cancelled. The official reason for the show's cancellation Tong's suicide. ABC said they would have picked up the show had he lived. Interesting that Duel would later end HIS life, and his death spelled the end of a tv series also.
by Anonymous | reply 228 | December 5, 2018 2:58 AM |
Do we know where Dave was at the time, R227?
by Anonymous | reply 229 | December 5, 2018 3:10 AM |
Singer/actress Debbie Weems of ”Captain Kangaroo” leaped to her death in 1978 after being released from a psychiatric ward. She was 27. Debbie’s Captain Kangaroo episodes contunued to air for months after her death.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 230 | December 5, 2018 3:21 AM |
R227, by the time of her suicide, Margaret Ray had moved on from stalking Letterman to stalking astronaut Storey Musgrave.
by Anonymous | reply 231 | December 5, 2018 3:23 AM |
Well she was still crazy about stars...
by Anonymous | reply 232 | December 5, 2018 3:36 AM |
Ray McDonald. Cute and charming supporting performer in MGM musicals of the 40s. Mel Torme who appeared with him in Good News said it was a suicide but McDonald's daughter said it was an accident.
Bobby Harron DW Griffith leading man. Shot himself at the age of 27 when charismatic popular Richard Barthelmess started getting his roles. But did he really or was this another accident?
by Anonymous | reply 233 | December 5, 2018 3:37 AM |
Those of us who grew up in the '70s were told the cautionary tale of Diane Linkletter, who lept to her death while tripping on LSD. However, she may have been despondent and consciously suicidal, according to the last person to see her alive, Edward Durston. But then again, Durston was also the last person to see Carol Wayne alive before she drowned in Manzanillo Bay, so it could have been foul play.
by Anonymous | reply 234 | December 5, 2018 3:39 AM |
R233, I thought Ray had some intestinal obstruction. Boy was he adorable in Good News. Past That Peace Pipe!
by Anonymous | reply 235 | December 5, 2018 3:45 AM |
"Mickey" was a horrible show that had poor ratings.
by Anonymous | reply 236 | December 5, 2018 4:27 AM |
One of Mickey Rooney's wives was the victim of a murder/suicide at the hand of her lover.
by Anonymous | reply 237 | December 5, 2018 4:35 AM |
One time screen hunk Jon Hall ("Hurricane") was sick with bladder cancer when he shot himself in the head at the age 64.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 238 | December 5, 2018 4:57 AM |
Richard Farnsworth shot himself because he had terminal cancer
Jane Fonda's mother cut her own throat
Ted Turner's father shot himself
Katharine Hepburn's brother hanged himself possibly because he was gay
Spalding Gray jumped off the Staten Island Ferry after seeing the film 'Big Fish'. His mother had also committed suicide.
by Anonymous | reply 239 | December 5, 2018 5:42 AM |
Spalding Gray had suffered a serious head injury in a car accident. Traumatic brain injury and suicide are strongly linked.
by Anonymous | reply 240 | December 5, 2018 7:51 AM |
I think he was in poorly treated pain also.
by Anonymous | reply 241 | December 5, 2018 7:53 AM |
R230...I always wondered what happened to Debbie from Captain Kangaroo.
by Anonymous | reply 242 | December 5, 2018 12:04 PM |
I know, R242. Debbie just disappeared from the show. I didn’t know why until a few years ago, thanks to the Internet.
How creepy is it that they kept running her unaired shows after such a horrible death???
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 243 | December 5, 2018 12:41 PM |
BBC radio presenter hanged herself after walking out of studio during her show
Vicki Archer, 41, had told colleagues at BBC Radio Shropshire that she needed "a break" and was feeling "upset"
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 244 | December 5, 2018 11:47 PM |
So "All About Eve" had three suicides in the cast: George Sanders, Barbara Bates, and Marilyn Monroe (maybe).
by Anonymous | reply 245 | December 6, 2018 12:32 AM |
I guess I don't get why it's so weird that they kept airing her show r243, I mean, people die mid movie or mid season all the time, they don't scrap their stuff because of it.
by Anonymous | reply 246 | December 6, 2018 1:19 AM |
R246 maybe because it was a suicide as opposed to a natural death or illness?
by Anonymous | reply 247 | December 6, 2018 1:20 AM |
I hnk it's great that they showed her work.
by Anonymous | reply 248 | December 6, 2018 1:31 AM |
The big ginger bailiff on Judge Mathis, Brendan, jumped from his 24th floor balcony back in 2002 three days after Christmas.
by Anonymous | reply 249 | December 6, 2018 1:41 AM |
George Dyer, Francis Bacon’s rough trade lover and muse, committed suicide days before Bacon’s retrospective opened in Paris. Daniel Craig portrayed him in the movie Love is the Devil.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 250 | December 6, 2018 2:44 AM |
Performance artist, Ana Mendieta went out the window and fell 33 floors to her death. She had been arguing with her husband, sculptor Carl Andre, just prior about him being more famous, and he said she killed herself because of it. He was tried for murder, but acquitted. Accident, suicide or murder?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 251 | December 6, 2018 2:54 AM |
Pier Angeli has been mentioned briefly. A once promising young Italian actress, she dated James Dean for a few weeks and lived for the rest of her life under the delusion that they were Romeo and Juliet, kept apart by her possessive mother. She married Vic Damone, and there was the urban legend that James Dean gunned his motorcycle in front of the church where the wedding was held, but that was never proven. Anyway, she grew dissolute as she grew older and never stopped talking about how James Dean had been the great love of her life: "love is behind me now, love died in a Porsche." But the great love affair was a figment of her imagination. She was a mere footnote in Dean's short life. He contemptuously called her "Miss Pizza." She died of a pill overdose at age 40.
by Anonymous | reply 252 | December 6, 2018 2:56 AM |
Ana Mendieta was murdered. A woman was heard screaming "no, no!" before her fatal fall. Her fat pig of a husband, Carl Andre, had unexplained fresh scratches on his face at the time of her death. Her death was very suspicious, but Andre ended up getting off scot free. He's been called the O. J. Simpson of the art world.
by Anonymous | reply 253 | December 6, 2018 3:00 AM |
Jeanne Hebuterne was painter Amedeo Modigliani’s common law wife and mother of his child. When he died, she jumped out the window eight months pregnant killing herself. The are united forever in Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 254 | December 6, 2018 3:02 AM |
Burlesque dancer Faith Bacon, who claimed to have originated the fan dance that rival Sally Rand popularized, jumped out of her hotel window and died from her injuries later that night. Once a celebrated jazz age personality, Faith died at the age of 46 with only 85 cents to her name.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 255 | December 6, 2018 3:43 AM |
R245, Though not a suicide, Anne Baxter's death was sad. She suffered a stroke while Christmas shopping in NYC. I remember reading that she laid in the street before help arrived, those around her were not aware that she was an Academy Award winning actress. She remained on life support for a few days until her family pulled the plug. She was only 62.
by Anonymous | reply 256 | December 6, 2018 3:53 AM |
Ruslana jumped she was so beautiful.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 258 | December 6, 2018 5:06 PM |
Etiquette maven Amy Vanderbilt
by Anonymous | reply 259 | December 6, 2018 5:12 PM |
Prince Rudolf von Hapsburg
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 260 | December 6, 2018 5:16 PM |
R256: Why should an Oscar winner get special treatment? NB: My dad died after suffering a stroke while Christmas shopping, too, although he was in a store rather than the street.
by Anonymous | reply 261 | December 6, 2018 5:18 PM |
[quote]Edward Platt (the Chief on GET SMART) Ed Flanders (ST. ELSEWHERE) Brian Keith (FAMILY AFFAIR)
Wow! I had no idea.
by Anonymous | reply 262 | December 6, 2018 5:18 PM |
Jackson Browne's first wife. Model Phyllis Major. Pills.
by Anonymous | reply 263 | December 6, 2018 5:27 PM |
Tony Scott, Ridley Scott’s brother jumped off a bridge in Los Angeles.
by Anonymous | reply 264 | December 6, 2018 6:24 PM |
Walter Becker of Steely Dan: In 1978, Becker's girlfriend, Karen Roberta Stanley, died of a drug overdose in his apartment on January 30, resulting in a wrongful death lawsuit against him.
Then there's Brian Keith, but I don't think he knew Becker.
by Anonymous | reply 265 | December 6, 2018 6:34 PM |
R260 ah, Mayerling. Aka the most tragic suicide in musical theater 😭
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 266 | December 6, 2018 6:37 PM |
"Goodbye to all of you who have tried so hard to comfort me in my loss of William Haines, whom I have been with since 1926. I now find it impossible to go it alone, I am much too lonely."
Jimmie Shields' 1974 suicide note after the death from cancer in 1973 of his lover MGM star William Haines who pretty much gave up his movie star career to live openly with Shields.
by Anonymous | reply 267 | December 6, 2018 6:37 PM |
Daniel Von Barger, Kruger on Seinfeld, tried to shoot himself years ago after losing toes to diabetes, finally died of it later.
by Anonymous | reply 268 | December 6, 2018 7:13 PM |
Why do people kill themselves (or attempt to) when their health is declining?
by Anonymous | reply 269 | December 6, 2018 7:31 PM |
Because maybe it's a slow very painful process that can cause untold misery for a long time to come?
For me just bring on that extra bit of morphine.
by Anonymous | reply 270 | December 6, 2018 7:47 PM |
R269, it’s called “suffering.” I do appreciate your innocence, it’s refreshing.
by Anonymous | reply 271 | December 6, 2018 9:15 PM |
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