Rare footage of a gorgeous star
Mary Carlisle is going to be 100 years old soon, and she’s perhaps the last living link to and glamour …
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I want to be a star!
The girl on the cover of our book Beverly Hills Confidential has an ominous message scrawled (or carved?) on her …
“Drunkometer” used in Beverly Hills
Nude as plane crashes
Long before women were allowed to be police officers, they were allowed to be aerial pilots. This one worked in …
Dad’s hot New Year’s Eve date with Lana Turner!
My dad, Francis Louis Ligouri (on the right in uniform) joined the New York Fighting Irish 69th Brigade during World …
A suicide machine, house of heads, and “cartoon” news…
Note the gun lying on its side in this ingeniously designed “Suicide Machine.” We could find no information as to …
Who was this?
We found this old wanted poster in the Beverly Hills police files, but there was no further information attached. We …
Charlie Chaplin: The blistering paternity scandal
So was this child’s father Charlie Chaplin? The mother said yes, the jury said yes, but Chaplin said no. Back …
My run-in with gangster/playboy Johnny Stompanato
Shortly before beautiful actress Lana Turner’s lover, Johnny Stompanato, was knifed to death (read all about it on p. 70 …
“Borrowed Baby” Bank Robbery
That woman on the right? She and her newlywed husband (with the hat) “borrowed” another woman’s toddler, then took the four-year-old …
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