Hollywood Mysteries #2 - Olive Thomas, Beautiful but Doomed.

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Kick back and listen to a deep dive into the shocking life of a silent era screen icon, accompanied by the Noir mood of rain on a deserted L.A. sidewalk, deep into the night.
This episode looks at the brief and tragic life of Olive Thomas, who was a major star in the silent era. She is little known today, apart from the scandalous end to her short life. But her surviving films and historical evidence paint a picture of a more complex woman than she has been given credit for.
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@daniellebrothers3688

Such an interesting story--but when she met Ziegfeld I had to mute your narration. The name is pronounced ZIG-feld. It's a pretty famous name..if you were a Barbra fan you'd know 😉

@sarahalbers5555

Side bar: Ziegfeld 's wife, Billie Burke, played Glenda the Good Witch in the Wizard of Oz.

@kmlsikhi-dd6xt

You obviously put in a lot of work into your content (Please take a half an hour to make sure you're pronouncing the names of the people you include before recording).

@aliciahowell9617

In the this story you mention Howard Chandler Christy. My husband’s grandmother was a beautiful flapper of the 1920s who was the niece of Edouard Lippe who was a composer, musician and actor. He was the vocal coach to Nelson Eddy and was in movie with him 1935 Naughty Marietta. When we settled her estate, we inherited a large Christy painting that appears to be a poster for party called The Circus Ball in 1926. It has the typical Christy girl dressed only in a Tutu like skirt and clown hat. I fell in love with it the moment I saw it hanging in her mid century modern home looking out of place. She said 9n,y that it had sentimental value and we never learned how they acquired it. We have it hanging in our bedroom and I can’t help but wonder who the model was and what the story behind it was. They were avid art collectors but their collections were all mid century modern pieces except the Christy piece. I recently went through a few boxes that ended up with my husbands aunt until her passing this year. Inside I found MGM 9 x12 photographs as of William Powell, Jean Harlow and Nelson Eddy and a travel diary of her 2 week trip to LA as her uncles guest for the movie premiere. They attended parties with Powell, Harlow, Eddy and her Uncle Lippe. In them, she describes in detail the people who attended, the beautiful homes and gorgeous fashion she saw. His grandmother Bobbie lived to be 96 and I had the opportunity to know her but her memory had begun to fail by then. It’s been fascinating to read over her old diaries and look through her mementos from this era. I just wish I had know all this about her then and could have asked her questions. She was just a grandmother to my husband but I’ve learned she was daring, beautiful artistic lady who embraced the lifestyle of the 1920s.

@miriamaguilar7977

Olive was a gorgeous woman of her time. RIP Beautiful woman.

@cathyandrews2736

I am pretty sure this is a system generated voice as the pronunciation on many names is wrong. But still very soothing.

@neilmoore7194

The narrator's miss promotions are extremely off-putting. Please in the future have someone go over your scripts and learn the correct pronunciations. I have noticed this on many of your videos. Otherwise, I enjoy your content.

@carolmanning8367

Sorry your voice was sending me off to sleep. No emotion too drawn out

@paden1865able

I love your videos but could you please lower the volume of the rain sound effect? It's a bit distracting and overwhelms your narration at times.

@CarolAnne-wl6zu

She was very pretty.

@marcusashley3428

I love your voice too, I watch these videos at night and it feels like someone is reading me a bedtime story ! I find early Hollywood so fascinating, thank you for posting 😊