Tom Neal was a middling movie actor from the late 1930s to the 1950s who was more known for his off-screen escapades than for his acting. Neal’s best role was in the curious film-noir, Detour. It’s non-copyrighted; check it out. As a young man, Neal was an amateur boxer with a good string of wins.… Continue reading Death Behind Flagstone: Tom Neal, Palm Springs, and Studio City
Category: This Happened Here
Farny: Mysterious Drop-Dead Death of Bette Davis’ Husband
An overactive imagination could come up with a scenario where Bette Davis kills her second husband, Arthur Farnsworth. After all, pick any Bette Davis movie at random, and she’s probably killing someone. Just the other night, I caught a very random Bette Davis movie: a weird 1964 late-late-film noir called Dead Ringer where Bette Davis… Continue reading Farny: Mysterious Drop-Dead Death of Bette Davis’ Husband
Hi, 1587 35th Avenue, San Francisco, Meet the JFK Assassination
The Belasco Theater in New York at 111 West 44th Street was built over a century ago for Broadway theater impresario David Belasco. The Belasco is still there and thriving. Anyone who loves Broadway theater has undoubtedly been to the Belasco Theater at one point or another. The Belasco name would, strangely enough, surface during the… Continue reading Hi, 1587 35th Avenue, San Francisco, Meet the JFK Assassination
Everything In Me Exploded: 1830 Verdugo Vista Dr., Glendale, CA
Few homes from the 1930s still exist in such exquisite state as the one located at 1830 Verdugo Vista Dr., Glendale, California. Yet it does, in perfect California Spanish-Mediterranean style. On November 9, 1937, Paul Wright, aviation manager at the Union Air Terminal, found his wife, Evelyn Wright, locked in steamy sexual embrace with his… Continue reading Everything In Me Exploded: 1830 Verdugo Vista Dr., Glendale, CA