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(Marilyn? Miller)
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| 8 August 23 |
is born in Hollywood / Los Angeles, California
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is raised in San Francisco
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| Early 45 |
works as a department store clerk and showgirl before signing with 20th Century-Fox
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begins working at the famed Follies Bergere in San Francisco
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| 45 |
is a showgirl in Diamond Horseshoe
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is spotted by producer-director Ida Lupino who “gives her a first real break in pictures”
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| Early June 51 |
is heralded to start location filming for The Tanks Are Coming at Fort Knox, Kentucky
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| June 51 |
is replaced in Warner Brothers' The Tanks Are Coming because studio bosses decide that a girl so extraordinarily pretty should not be wasted in a war drama
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| February 52 |
the press claims she’s an Oakland girl
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columnist Harrison Carroll reports that she and Pat Wymore were kicked out of their own The Big Trees premiere at a Eureka, California, movie theater
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| September 52 |
tours the Hollywood late spots with Kirk Douglas and his old pal Captain Paul Caruso
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| July 54 |
meets young actor Glase Lohman
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| c. December 54 |
becomes engaged to Universal-International bit player Glase Lohman. He's about 29; she's 21.
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| 21 July 55 |
early in the day, she attempts suicide at her North Hollywood apartment after an argument with Lohman. When Lohman informs her that he won’t marry her until he’s financially stable, she stabs herself in the abdomen with a paring knife. Lohman tells the police that she brought up the subject of marriage and an argument ensued. Lohman says he tried to persuade her to keep calm, but when he started to leave her apartment she ran into the kitchen and exclaimed: “You will be sorry, because you will find me dead in the morning.”
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is rushed to North Hollywood Receiving Hospital for emergency treatment and then taken to General Hospital, where she undergoes four hours of surgery for her knife wound.
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| 17 August 73 |
as Eve Miller, she dies at age 50 in Van Nuys, California, by suicide
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Sources:
Kirk Crivello, Valley Morning Star, The Bridgeport Post, The New York Times, Humboldt Standard, Oakland Tribune, The Lethbridge Herald, The Daily Review, The Monessen Daily Independent, The Bridgeport Post, Picture Show Annual 1954, www.Ancestry.com |
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