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Hollywood's dark side from historian Scott Michaels & filmmaker Mike Dorsey
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Wednesday Jan 23, 2019
Wednesday Jan 23, 2019
Scott and Mike discuss The Addams Family and the deaths of cast members Carolyn Jones, Jackie Coogan, Ted Cassidy, and Ken Weatherwax. We also talk a little about Carol Channing, the Manson Family, the famous Hollywood Forever Cemetery, and more!
Video: Watch a short video of Dearly Departed Tours and Museum's Sharon Tate Birthday Party, with their newly acquired personal effects (Link)
Link: Check out LA Woman Tours!
Article: Read about Manson follower Bobby Beausoleil getting recommended for parole (Link)
Video: There used to be a recording online of Beausoleil and fellow former Manson follower Clem Grogan playing in a band together in prison (probably Beausoleil's "Freedom Orchestra" band) where we're pretty sure Beausoleil called Grogan out by name, but the link appears to have been taken down. However, this live video of the band from 1978 appears to show the two of them performing together (Link)
Link: Support Justice for Homicide Victims
Buy: In Morticia's Shadow: The Life & Career of Carolyn Jones
...and Addams Chronicles: An Altogether Ooky Look at the Addams Family by Stephen Cox
Some of the cremains of Ken Weatherwax (Pugsley)
on display at Dearly Departed Tours and Museum in Hollywood
Link: Check out the Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Article: Judy Garland's remains moved to LA (Link)
Article: Read about the man buried in the crypt over Marilyn Monroe (Link)
Video: Amazing newsreel footage about the lynching of the accused murderers of Jackie Coogan's college friend, Brooke Hart (Link)
Jackie Coogan's roadster after the crash that killed both his father
and his best friend, fellow actor Junior Durkin
Article: An interesting blog post about the crash and Coogan's friendship with Durkin (Link)
Dearly Departed Podcast co-host Mike Dorsey with Batman series actor Burt Ward (Robin) in 2012
Wednesday Jan 02, 2019
Wednesday Jan 02, 2019
In this episode we discuss the bizarre murder of B-movie actress Susan Cabot, AKA Roger Corman's The Wasp Woman!
Covered in this Episode:
IN THE NEWS
Article: People Magazine's 1987 write-up on the missed interview between Molly Ringwald and Lillian Gish (Link)
Article: Ringwald's defense of the missed interview (Link)
"Early in my career I was asked to do an interview with Lillian Gish and I was really excited. But then everything got screwed up, I smashed my finger in a door, the taxi took me to the wrong end of town, it was the middle of winter, I couldn't get another taxi, and I was heart-broken because they said she didn't want to do it anymore. So I got flowers and wrote her a note and said how sorry I was, and they just wrote this sort of... like... horrible piece on how I stood up this sweet old woman who had a plate of cookies waiting for me. I mean they couldn't have written it to be worse. They got a much better article out of me that way than if I'd showed up, and it started this feeling that I was a bratty actress who didn't care and left people waiting. I've never been the kind of person who would do that."
MAIN FEATURE
:: The Wasp Woman ::
The Wasp Woman (1959)
Article: JFK files: CIA lined up actress for date with Jordan's King Hussein during visit to United States (Link)
Jordan's King Hussein (1957)
Timothy Scott Roman, Susan Cabot's son
Article: Scott's write-up on the death of Susan Cabot at FindADeath.com!
Susan Cabot's house and the scene of her murder
Bold laundry detergent - murder weapon hiding spot
Susan Cabot's grave marker, made possible by Scott Michaels and friends
WRAP-UP
Article: Death Tour Owner Makes Sure Forgotten Actors Get a Headstone (Link)
Actor Johnny Arthur's grave marker, made possible by Scott Michaels and friends
Article: Scott's write-up on the death of actor Herve Villechaize at FindADeath.com!
Bullet hole from gun that killed actor Herve Villechaize
Video: My Dinner with Herve trailer (Link)
Link: Zak Bagans' The Haunted Museum in Las Vegas
Saturday Dec 22, 2018
Saturday Dec 22, 2018
The Dearly Departed Podcast explores the dark side of Hollywood history. It is led by famed Hollywood historian Scott Michaels -- who operates LA's Dearly Departed Tours and FindADeath.com, and who has been featured as an expert on E! Entertainment multiple times, as well as in his own documentaries like The Six Degrees of Helter Skelter -- and co-hosted by filmmaker Mike Dorsey (The Six Degrees of Helter Skelter, Murder Rap: Inside the Biggie and Tupac Murders, Demon House). Every two weeks we will explore a different Hollywood death or other dark and fascinating story from Tinseltown's sordid history!
Covered in this Episode:
IN THE NEWS
Penny Marshall, left, and Cindy Williams as the title characters in the ABC sitcom “Laverne & Shirley.”
Ms. Marshall’s success on the show paved the way for her directing career. Credit ABC
Please Support: LA Conservancy and Hollywood Heritage
Article: Owner who demolished Neutra house ordered to build exact replica (Link)
Article: Neutra House in Palm Springs Destroyed (Link)
MAIN FEATURE
:: Death of Santa Claus ::
Article: Ho Ho Ho! Read bout Leroy Scholtz aka Santa Claus at FindADeath.com!
:: Dean Martin ::
Dean Martin (Getty Images)
Video: Watch the Martin and Lews Reunion from 1976!
Article: FindADeath's writeup on the death of Dean Martin
The old Hamburger Hamlet that Deano used to hang out at
Scott's Dean Martin beer bottle
:: Tiny Tim ::
Video: Watch Tiny Tim perform his hit Tiptoe Through the Tulips
Article: Tiny Tim on FindADeath
WRAP-UP
Article: Kevin Smith survives 'massive' heart attack: 'I would've died tonight' (Link)
Download: Scott's FindADeah Death A Day App!
