Movie Confidential

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Andrew Schanie. Movie Confidential

Table of CONTENTS

THE SCOOP: TALES of Lust, Legends, Weirdness, and Woe

1. Fatty Arbuckle Suffers a Crushing Victory

2. Gable Loves Older Women. Gable Also Loves Married Ladies. Hitler Loves Gable. Dillinger Wouldn’t Miss It

3. Charlie Chaplin Gets the Tramp Stamp

4. The Lost Autobiography

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6. A Shocking and Puzzling Death

7. Peter Jackson Eats Vomit, Wins Oscar

8. The Forbidden Zone

9. Punish! The PTA Sends Santa off With No Cookies

10. Cast and Crew of Titanic Ride the Yellow Submarine

11. The Turkish Film Industry Defies Copyright Laws and All Logic

12. No Redemption

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ELIZABETH SHORT: Actress

MARILYN MONROE: Actress

ALBERT DEKKER: Actor

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24. Celebrities Who Made Sure Their Children Will Be Remembered

31. Olive Thomas: The Flapper Hits the Crapper

32. Winona Ryder and the Five-Finger Discount

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For all my friends and family who are still willing to talk to me.

Mainly for Chandra—after all the years, you still laugh at my jokes. You’re my favorite person to have adventures with, and you smell nice. Really nice.

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Arbuckle was allowed to prove himself all over again. The second trial began introducing all the same scenarios and evidence again. The biggest surprise for the second trial was the amended testimony of Zey Prevon, who initially said Rappe told her, “He hurt me.” This time Zey took the stand and said, “In the first trial I said I heard Virginia Rappe say, ‘I’m dying, I’m dying. He hurt me.’ That wasn’t entirely true. I did hear Virginia say, ‘I’m dying, I’m dying.’ I didn’t hear her say, ‘He hurt me’ or anything like that.” Zey Prevon continued, “Now you want to know why I lied? Well, Mr. Brady tried to force me to sign that little bit about ‘He hurt me.’ I didn’t want to. They locked me in a cell and said I’d never come out until I signed the statement.” First Delmont, now Prevon—prosecutors were losing all their star witnesses. “I had visions of spending the rest of my life in jail,” Prevon continued. “After I signed, they sent me home and guarded my house so I couldn’t leave. The days of the trial, they had me in the District Attorney’s office learning a script they had prepared for me.”

Prevon was told charges of perjury would be brought against her but they never were.

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