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Sex, Death & The Hollywood Mystique

Sex, Death & The Hollywood Mystique

1999•2h 35m
Documentary

Larry Wessel presents darkest Hollywood and explores some of tinsel town's most grisly tragedies, including the murders of Sharon Tate and The Black Dahlia.

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Jonathan Gilmore

Jonathan Gilmore

Himself (as John Gilmore)

Curtis Harrington

Curtis Harrington

Himself

Forrest J. Ackerman

Forrest J. Ackerman

Himself

Kelly Monroe

Herself

Nicholas Fruktow

Himself

Eva Ford

Herself

Kerine Elkins

Herself

Goddess Bunny

Goddess Bunny

Herself

Jacque Lawson

Herself

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