By 1982 John Belushi had begun hanging out with a less than reputable group of characters - namely, one Cathy Smith, a former back-up singer for The Band, who had become a strung out addict and ...
Our Gang's Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer Killed over $50 and a Hunting Dog
Carl Switzer was born in Paris, Illinois in 1927. He would later become known as "Alfalfa", a character he played on the Hal Roach produced series of film shorts called "Our Gang." Carl died on January 21, 1959, the victim of a...
Timeline of Events
September 7, 1996 - 8:39pm: Mike Tyson knocks out Bruce Seldon at the MGM Grand Hotel, in Las Vegas; 8:45pm: As Tupac Shakur leaves the MGM Grand, he gets into an altercation with a young black man believed to be Orlando Anderson, member of a rival gang, The Southside ...
Dorothy Stratten was born in Vancouver, British Columbia as Dorothy Hoogstratten. When barely 17, she was spotted in a Canadian Dairy Queen fast-food restaurant by Paul Snider, nine years her elder....
The Seedy World of Bob Crane - TV's Colonel Hogan
Robert Edward Crane was born in Waterbury, Connecticut on July 13th, 1928. By his early teens, he was demonstrating musical talent and had set his sights on becoming a drummer, fantasizing about becoming the...
Warning: The photos below are extremely graphic in nature. So, if you are easily grossed out, don't look! You've been fairly warned!
Having broken into show biz with TV's Seven Brides for Seven Brothers that ran during the 1982-83 season, River Phoenix would follow up with his feature-film debut as a somewhat bookworm-ish kid in Explorers (1985). But it ...
By the age of 20, Freddie Prinze's fame was already through the stratosphere as his television show, Chico and the Man was a top five charter in the U.S. He was a big star, his face graced the covers of numerous magazines such as ...
In Pasadena's early days, before the historic Colorado Street Bridge was built, crossing the Arroyo Seco (a deeply cut canyon linking the San Gabriel Mountains to the Los Angeles River) was an extremely difficult task...
Cocaine, Margaritas, Zoloft and Saturday Night Live's Phil Hartman
Phil Hartman rose to fame with Saturday Night Live
Dana Michelle Plato led quite an interesting life, full of dizzying heights and shattering lows. She came to fame as a child star but found out soon enough that early fame often has its own pitfalls. Best known as Kimberly Drummond
Christopher Crosby Farley, who was born on February 15, 1964, grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. He studied theatre and communications at Marquette University. Upon finishing his degree, Chris was in the cast of...
The Full Throttle Life and Untimely Death of Chris Farley
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After spending a night with a hooker named Heidi, Farley attended a party in Lincoln Park in Chicago. After the party ended, Farley and Heidi would go back to Farley's apartment in the Hancock building in downtown Chicago where the pair continued to smoke some crack and snort more heroin.
Peg Entwistle was born Millicent Lilian Entwistle (many sources incorrectly have it as Lillian Millicent) on July 1, 1908 in Port Talbot,Wales . From an early age, Peg's life was filled with tragedy. After the death of her...
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In the late 1980s, a young actress named Rebecca Lucile Schaeffer was struggling to find her big break into show business. Born in 1967, the only child of a psychologist and a writer, Rebecca was sleek, svelte and beautiful...
On January 15, 1947 a woman walking on the sidewalk in the 3800 block of Norton St., in Liemert Park, Los Angeles caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a department store mannequin lying in the weeds...
Read more: The Black Dahlia Murder - The Death of Elizabeth Short
Brian Keith, who became known to millions of Americans in the late '60s as Uncle Bill, was born on November 14, 1921, in Bayonne, New Jersey. The son of Robert Keith and Helena Shipman, Keith eventually went on...
Herve Jean Pierre Villechaize was born on April 23, 1943 in Paris, France. His father, a doctor and resistance fighter during the German occupation of France during World War II, noticed early on that something wasn't...
Against his wishes and in spite of his best intentions, Brandon Lee will always be known as the son of martial arts movie star Bruce Lee, who starred in more than 20 films, including The Big Boss (1971), Fists of Fury (1971) and...
Natalie Gurdin was born in San Francisco in 1938, to Russian immigrants Nikolai and Maria. When she was just 4 years old she appeared as an extra in her first movie, Happy Land, with her mother. Convinced her daughter...
On November 13, 1974, the peace in the tiny Long Island town of Amityville, New York, an upper-middle-income community of 10,000, was shattered when 23 year-old Ronald DeFeo returned from a night of drinking and shot...
Mary Anissa Jones was born in West Lafayette, Indiana to Purdue students John P. Jones and Mary P. Tweel on March 11, 1958. Pronounced (Uh-nee-suh), her name is Lebanese and means "Little Friend."...
James Dean was arguably one of the freshest young faces on the Hollywood scene in the 1950s. But because he died at such a young age he was probably known more for the films he didn't make, than the ones he did...
John Franklin Candy was born on October 31, 1950 in New Market, Ontario, Canada to Sidney James Candy And Evangeline Candy. Within five years of his birth, John's father would die leaving his mother, aunt...
Dominique Dunne was a beautiful and promising young actress most known for her performance as the older sister on the hit movie Poltergeist (1982). Five months after the release of the movie, with her career beginning...
On June 16, 1959, George Reeves gave millions of children worldwide firm evidence of why it's important to separate fantasy from reality ... because on that day, in the world of make-believe, Superman was not faster than...
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Few actresses conjure up as much admiration, emulation and yet anguish and accusations as a troubled young starlet the world would come to know as Marilyn Monroe. Born Norma Jean Mortenson...
The Marilyn Monroe Death Bed Photo - WARNING: Graphic Photo
Below is the well-known police investigatory forensics photo showing Marilyn Monroe deceased on her bed. A policeman, to theft of the photo, is pointing to an empty Nembutal bottle on Marilyn's night stand, next to where she was found dead ...
The Marilyn Monroe Morgue Autopsy Photo
The below photo is widely known and accepted to be that of Marilyn Monroe upon the conclusion of her autopsy performed by L.A. County Coroner Thomas Naguchi, the so-called coroner to the stars. Dr. Noguchi also performed the same procedures on Natalie Wood, Robert F. Kennedy, Janis Joplin, John Belushi, Sharon Tate and others. Basically if you died in Los Angeles during the '60s, '70s, or '80s, you were ...
Marilyn Monroe Nude Photos - Graphic Warning: The photos below are not safe for work
Throughout her career, Marilyn Monroe participated in several nude photography shoots, including the now famous Tom Kelley "Red Velvet" Calendar shoot and the Vogue Magazine "Last Sitting" session with Bert Stern at the Bel Air Hotel in Los Angeles in 1962. In that shoot, the actress posed for some 2500 photos behind a semi-see-through, silky cloth that did little to mask the seductress's beauty.
Of all the notorious celebrity deaths, suicides, and murders that have occurred throughout the annals of Hollywood history, none was as bizarre and gruesome as the murders that occurred on a warm night...
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Morbidly Hollywood©
Where we feature the events, places, and timelines of many of Hollywood's Most Notorious Deaths... Including all the Morbid Details!
America loves her movie stars. We adore the movies they bring to life. We enjoy dreaming of one day becoming a movie star and living the jet-set lifestyle. But most of all, we love it when their wheels come off and they crash back down to earth like a skeleton hitting a gym floor.
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Morbidly Hollywood
- Colorado Street Suicide Bridge
- Death of a Princess - The Story of Grace Kelly's Fatal Car Crash
- Joaquin Phoenix 911 Call - River Phoenix - Viper Room
- Screen Legend Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79
- Suicide and the Hollywood Sign - The Girl Who Jumped from the Hollywood Sign
- The Amityville Horror House
- The Black Dahlia Murder - The Death of Elizabeth Short
- The Death of Actress Jane Russell
- The Death of Brandon Lee
- The Death of Chris Farley
- The Death of Dominique Dunne
- The Death of George Reeves - the Original Superman