Jul 18
Do you ever think about how, if Bobbie Harron's death by self-inflicted gunshot wound (maybe accidental, maybe not) hadn't happened on the same day that Olive Thomas ingested bichloride of mercury in a Parisian hotel room, he'd be so much better known, if only as Hollywood's first big suicide scandal (probably in a Kenneth Anger-bastardized Hollywood Babylon version, like poor Olive)?
....
No?
That's just a thing I think about?
Literally Just Me?
Okay.
#sorry i'm in my “making esoteric pop culture posts about 1920” zone#congratulations if you have any idea what i'm talking about lmao#otherwise i'm sorry#robert harron#bobbie harron#olive thomas#movie fans must have been going cuckoo bananas in september 1920#i know i would have been#ofc even if there had been more of a gap between these events#olive still would have dominated the news cycle if only bc of the pickford connection#but bobbie might have gotten a bit more of a Moment