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Actress Anna May Wong conferring with Los Angeles County District Attorney Buron Fitts. Anna had received extortion letters in 1937 threatening her family unless she paid 20,000.00. Mrs. David O. Selznick and retired chiropractor Dr. A. M. Foote were also recipients of extortion letters.
September 18, 1940: Left to right - Allie “Tick-Tock” Tannenbaum, Abe Reles, and District Attorney Buron Fitts. Allie and Abe offered what they knew about Benjamin Siegel and the Thanksgiving Eve murder of Harry Schachter (AKA Harry “Big Greenie” Greenberg).
Girl # 27 - Patricia Douglas PT 1.
Girl # 27 – Patricia Douglas PT 1.
This story will be in two parts. It is a tale of a young woman’s quest for justice in an era and a place where greedy and powerful men determined who was entitled to fair treatment and who was not. Ptricia Douglas was a ‘nobody’, one of thousands of young hopefuls living and working in Hollywood, California. Like most of her peers she trusted the studios, especially the ‘biggies’ such as…
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Paul Bern ( 1889 - 1932 ) - An exercise in character assassination.
Paul Bern ( 1889 – 1932 ) – An exercise in character assassination.
Irene Selznick, the wife of producer David O, once described Paul Bern as ‘the single most beloved person in Hollywood’. He was a writer at MGM, 45 years old, short and bald, yet his new wife, Jean Harlow, clearly seemed to be in love with him. It was probably not a ‘match made in heaven’, but there seemed to be considerable trust and real friendship between them, qualities not overly abundant…
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Thelma Todd's death - maybe murder after all?
Thelma Todd’s death – maybe murder after all?
I wrote a month or two ago about the death of actress Thelma Todd in 1935. Based on police and coroner’s reports, I chose to believe she died by accident. Since then, however, I have delved into the case more closely and I am now ready to accept that a monumental cover-up may have taken place. My change of opinion centres on two vital issues: a) the official time of death, and b) the…
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The Herald-Examiner stages a recreation of the shooting of Los Angeles District Attorney Buron Fitts and illustrates it with this mixed media depiction. 1937.
