Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Accidental Deaths
Nick Adams
Sonny Bono
Jeff Chandler
Laird Cregar
Linda Darnell
James Dean
Eric Fleming
Janet Gaynor
Buck Jones
Grace Kelly
Ernie Kovacs
Brandon Lee
Carole Lombard
Jayne Mansfield
Audie Murphy
Rick (Ricky) Nelson
Will Rogers
Trinidad Silva Jr.
2 Alcohol and Drugs
John Barrymore
John Belushi
Montgomery Clift
Bobby Driscoll
Chris Farley
W. C. Fields
Judy Garland
John Gilbert
William Holden
Veronica Lake
Barbara La Marr
Bela Lugosi
River Phoenix
Wallace Reid
Gail Russell
3 In Obscurity
Jean Arthur
Agnes Ayres
Theda Bara
Edwina Booth
Clara Bow
D. W. Griffith
Hedy Lamarr
Florence Lawrence
Mary Pickford
Martha Raye
Norma Shearer
4 Murders
Dominique Dunne
Phil Hartman
Sal Mineo
Dr. Haing S. Ngor
Ramón Novarro
Rebecca Schaeffer
Tupac Shakur
Carl “Alfalfa” Switzer
Sharon Tate
5 Natural Causes
Bud Abbott
Jim Backus
Lucille Ball
Suzan Ball
Louise Beavers
Amanda Blake
William Boyd
George Burns and
Gracie Allen
John Candy
Lou Costello
Joan Crawford
Brad Davis
Sammy Davis Jr.
Marlene Dietrich
Nelson Eddy
Redd Foxx
Clark Gable
Greta Garbo
John Garfield
Betty Grable
Edmund Gwenn
Susan Hayward
Rita Hayworth
Audrey Hepburn
Rock Hudson
Madeline Kahn
Michael Landon Liberace
Maria Montez
Warner Oland
Anthony Perkins
Susan Peters
Tyrone Power
Gilda Radner
Kate Smith
Lana Turner
Rudolph Valentino
Loretta Young
Robert Young
6 Puzzling Deaths
Russ Columbo
Bob Crane
Albert Dekker
Mario Lanza
Bruce Lee
Marilyn Monroe
Elvis Presley
George Reeves
Jean Seberg
Natalie Wood
7 Suicides
Pier Angeli
Pedro Armendariz
Don “Red” Barry
Scotty Beckett
Clara Blandick
John Bowers
Charles Boyer
Capucine
Dorothy Dandridge
Peter Duel
Peg Entwistle
Richard Farnsworth
Jon Hall
Rusty Hamer
Jon-Erik Hexum
Carole Landis
Dana Plato
Freddie Prinze
George Sanders
Romy Schneider
David Strickland
Lupe Velez
Hervé Villechaize
Gig Young
Appendix A
Necrology of Notable Hollywood Actors and Directors
Appendix B
Where Notable Hollywood Actors and Directors Are Buried in the United States
Bibliography
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