Episode list

Burn Hollywood Burn

Peg Entwistle

Wed, Oct 31, 2007
Welsh-born starlet Peg Entwistle sought fame and fortune in 1930s Hollywood. She found only alcoholism and depression. Frustrated that her hoped-for career was seemingly going nowhere, she committed suicide by jumping from the Hollywood sign. In death she found a form of stardom she could never have anticipated - the infamy of being the first person to kill themselves by jumping from the famous Los Angeles landmark
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Rachel Roberts

Wed, Nov 07, 2007
The sad story of the tumultuous life of acclaimed Welsh actress Rachel Roberts, a star of stage, screen and television, who committed suicide in Hollywood on November 6 1980.
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Mervyn K. Griffths
A profile of Mervyn K. Griffiths, the ex-army sergeant from Swansea, South Wales, who for 11 years was the trusted confidante of Mary Pickford, the silent screen goddess. On Pickford's death in 1976 Griffiths self-published a scurrilous tell-all memoir entitled 'Mary and Me - an under butler's story'.Lambasted as the 'Jeeves turned Judas', he was driven out by Hollywood and ended his days as an alcoholic derelict.
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Richard Marquand
The life and early, tragic death of director Richard Marquand who enjoyed huge success with Return of the Jedi only to succumb to a heart attack a few years later.
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