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August Ames, a Canadian porn star who appeared in over 270 films, died by suicide in December after copping abuse for refusing to shoot a sex scene with a bisexual actor.
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- 10Lucy Gordon
- 9Carole Landis
- 8Capucine
- 7Libby Holman
- 6Jill Bennett
- 5Elizabeth Hartman
- 4Joyce Jameson
- 3Barbara Bates
- 2Lupe Velez
- 1Dalida
From the outside, Lucy Gordon seemed to be on top of the world. She was born in Oxford, England before moving to France for most of her childhood. Gordon made her screen debut in 2001 and went on to star with some of the biggest names in cinema, including John Cusack, Audrey Tautou, and Tobey Maguire. Throughout the 2000s, she found herself in smal...
Born in Wisconsin to a poor family as the youngest of five children, the star-struck and lovely Frances Lillian Mary Ridste spent her childhood dreaming of big things. After saving $100, she took a bus to San Francisco, dyed her hair blonde, and eventually had her name legally changed to Carole Landis. Starting off as a hula dancer, Landis graduall...
Born in Toulon, France, Germaine Lefebvre worked at a bank early in life, but everything changed the day she was noticed by a photographer while riding in a carriage at age 17. This quickly resulted in her becoming a model for brands like Christian Dior and Givenchy, and she later took on the name Capucine. In the 1950s, Capucine decided to travel ...
Born in Ohio in 1904, Holman went on to become the youngest woman at the time to graduate from the University of Cincinnati, after which she moved to New York with hopes of appearing on Broadway. Her first major performance was in 1925 with the Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart musical The Garrick Gaieties, and she continued to appear in famous produ...
Born on a rubber plantation in what is now Malaysia, Jill Bennett may have seemed at the time to have little chance of success in either stage or film. However, she went on to do both. Upon traveling to England, Bennett received an education in the 1940s at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She joined the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre aft...
A delicate-looking redhead who lived in an apartment on East 68th Street, Elizabeth Hartman first jumped into the public eye in 1966 with her performance in the film A Patch of Blue, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. However, she later expressed that the “initial success beat me down,” putting her in “a position where I didn’t belon...
Joyce Jameson was one of the original actresses who perfected the “dumb blonde” persona in films like the Oscar-winning The Apartment and Good Neighbor Sam. Starting off as a chorus girl on Showboat in the early 1950s, she came to be a regular in musicals and comedies, generally cast as the unintelligent, amorous, or superficial beauty. Co-starring...
Born in Denver, Colorado, Bates first came to the public’s attention after the film studio Universal International chose her with nine other girls out of a nationwide search to find beautiful and talented women to act and dance in a movie about Salome. While most of the girls never encountered screen fame, Bates ended up starring with some of the b...
One of the most famous Mexican actresses of all time, Lupe Velez was aptly called “The Hot Pepper” and “The Mexican Spitfire” throughout her fiery career. After moving to California from her country of origin, she went from being a chorus girl to starring in 1927’s The Gauchoall within one year. In the 1920s alone she worked with legends Hal Roach,...
To this day, Dalida is considered one of the most popular singers who ever lived. Born in Cairo as Yolande Christina Giglioti, her rise to fame came quickly when, at the age of 21, she won the title of Miss Egypt and appeared in a film directed by the influential Egyptian filmmaker Niazi Mostafa. She later went to Paris to pursue fame and fortune, ...
Jul 16, 1994 · For the 23-year-old sex video superstar known as Savannah, it was the most outrageous act in a short but outrage-filled public life. It was also the third major suicide in the adult video...
Jul 21, 2022 · Actresses get caught up in the lifestyle and pressures of the business, succumbing to substance abuse. Some, like Judy Garland, have died from an accidental overdose; for others, such as Carrie...
Shocking video has emerged of a woman being publicly executed by Al Qaeda for allegedly committing adultery.
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Jul 16, 1994 · For the 23-year-old sex video superstar known as Savannah, it was the most outrageous act in a short but outrage-filled public life. It was also the third major suicide in Los Angeles’ adult ...
Jan 2, 2019 · After a popular adult film actress shockingly took her own life two years ago, many framed her death as yet another victim being pushed over the edge by cyberbullying. But a new podcast questions this narrative, presenting new facts and details that lay bare troubling new details about the porn star’s life prior to her untimely death.
