#SilentSundays; Belated Happy birthday to Dot King. While a figure of the Silent Era, Dot didn't get to make any movies, although she would inspire four. (thread follows)
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#SilentSundays; Belated Happy birthday to Dot King. While a figure of the Silent Era, Dot didn't get to make any movies, although she would inspire four. (thread follows) @ForeverLouiseB1 @miwi1010 @TinseltownTwins @CelluloidHisto2
#SilentSundays; Belated Happy birthday to Dot King. While a figure of the Silent Era, Dot didn't get to make any movies, although she would inspire four. (thread follows) @ForeverLouiseB1 @miwi1010 @TinseltownTwins @CelluloidHisto2
Known as the Broadway Butterfly from some chorus work along with some modelling, Dot parlayed that into a gig as a Speakeasy hostess and high-price courtesan until she was murdered in an unsolved 1923 tabloid murder aged 28. (2)
Known as the Broadway Butterfly from some chorus work along with some modelling, Dot parlayed that into a gig as a Speakeasy hostess and high-price courtesan until she was murdered in an unsolved 1923 tabloid murder aged 28. (2)
Known as the Broadway Butterfly from some chorus work along with some modelling, Dot parlayed that into a gig as a Speakeasy hostess and high-price courtesan until she was murdered in an unsolved 1923 tabloid murder aged 28. (2)
The case was made into the 1929 film "The Canary Murder Case" w/Louise Brooks in the King role & William Powell as Philo Vance. Originally shot as silent it's Brook's first talkie although her dialogue was actually dubbed by Margaret Livingston after Brooks refused to do it. (3)
The case was made into the 1929 film "The Canary Murder Case" w/Louise Brooks in the King role & William Powell as Philo Vance. Originally shot as silent it's Brook's first talkie although her dialogue was actually dubbed by Margaret Livingston after Brooks refused to do it. (3)
The case was made into the 1929 film "The Canary Murder Case" w/Louise Brooks in the King role & William Powell as Philo Vance. Originally shot as silent it's Brook's first talkie although her dialogue was actually dubbed by Margaret Livingston after Brooks refused to do it. (3)
The case was made into the 1929 film "The Canary Murder Case" w/Louise Brooks in the King role & William Powell as Philo Vance. Originally shot as silent it's Brook's first talkie although her dialogue was actually dubbed by Margaret Livingston after Brooks refused to do it. (3)
The case was made into the 1929 film "The Canary Murder Case" w/Louise Brooks in the King role & William Powell as Philo Vance. Originally shot as silent it's Brook's first talkie although her dialogue was actually dubbed by Margaret Livingston after Brooks refused to do it. (3)
The best scene is with Brooks swinging high above the audience as a canary (King was known as The Butterfly), the rest of it is slow and talky and mostly without Brooks. Honestly once Brooks gets bumped off it's pretty dull. (4)
In 1932 it was remade as a pre-code quickie "The King Murder" w/Dorothy Revier in the title role now renamed Miriam King & without Vance, which is paced better but suffers without Brooks. Both films show King as a blackmailer which was a theory at the time since dismissed. (6)
In 1932 it was remade as a pre-code quickie "The King Murder" w/Dorothy Revier in the title role now renamed Miriam King & without Vance, which is paced better but suffers without Brooks. Both films show King as a blackmailer which was a theory at the time since dismissed. (6)
In 1932 it was remade as a pre-code quickie "The King Murder" w/Dorothy Revier in the title role now renamed Miriam King & without Vance, which is paced better but suffers without Brooks. Both films show King as a blackmailer which was a theory at the time since dismissed. (6)
Another more loosely inspired film was "The Upper World" (1934) w/Ginger Rogers in a rare dramatic role. "The Naked City" (1948) was also loosely inspired with the unknown actress in the King role getting bumped off in the opening & only seen from the rear (7)
Another more loosely inspired film was "The Upper World" (1934) w/Ginger Rogers in a rare dramatic role. "The Naked City" (1948) was also loosely inspired with the unknown actress in the King role getting bumped off in the opening & only seen from the rear (7)
Another more loosely inspired film was "The Upper World" (1934) w/Ginger Rogers in a rare dramatic role. "The Naked City" (1948) was also loosely inspired with the unknown actress in the King role getting bumped off in the opening & only seen from the rear (7)
A year later a friend & neighbor Louise Lawson, another Broadway Showgirl/Pianist turned speakeasy hostess/courtesan who had appeared as an extra
in Griffith film "Way Down East" was murdered in a very similar way. Lawson was 24 & her murder was also unsolved. (8)
A year later a friend & neighbor Louise Lawson, another Broadway Showgirl/Pianist turned speakeasy hostess/courtesan who had appeared as an extra in Griffith film "Way Down East" was murdered in a very similar way. Lawson was 24 & her murder was also unsolved. (8)
A year later a friend & neighbor Louise Lawson, another Broadway Showgirl/Pianist turned speakeasy hostess/courtesan who had appeared as an extra in Griffith film "Way Down East" was murdered in a very similar way. Lawson was 24 & her murder was also unsolved. (8)
Another one of King's tragic party girl pals was recent former roomie Hilda Ferguson, a showgirl/model known as "The Shimmy Girl". Considered one of the most beautiful of all the Ziegfeld Girls she was actually offered a movie deal but passed it up for Broadway (9)
Another one of King's tragic party girl pals was recent former roomie Hilda Ferguson, a showgirl/model known as "The Shimmy Girl". Considered one of the most beautiful of all the Ziegfeld Girls she was actually offered a movie deal but passed it up for Broadway (9)
Another one of King's tragic party girl pals was recent former roomie Hilda Ferguson, a showgirl/model known as "The Shimmy Girl". Considered one of the most beautiful of all the Ziegfeld Girls she was actually offered a movie deal but passed it up for Broadway (9)
Another one of King's tragic party girl pals was recent former roomie Hilda Ferguson, a showgirl/model known as "The Shimmy Girl". Considered one of the most beautiful of all the Ziegfeld Girls she was actually offered a movie deal but passed it up for Broadway (9)
Another one of King's tragic party girl pals was recent former roomie Hilda Ferguson, a showgirl/model known as "The Shimmy Girl". Considered one of the most beautiful of all the Ziegfeld Girls she was actually offered a movie deal but passed it up for Broadway (9)
Hilda enjoyed some fame in New York before dying in 1928 of peritonitus aged 30 when her own partying lifestyle caught up with her. (10)
Yet another actress neighbor was Ethel Winthrop, who had appeared in major stage productions & 4 films including one with early screen scandal queen Clara Kimbal Young. The staid Ethel was no flapper though. She would live a long quieter life dying in 1972 aged 81. (11)
Yet another actress neighbor was Ethel Winthrop, who had appeared in major stage productions & 4 films including one with early screen scandal queen Clara Kimbal Young. The staid Ethel was no flapper though. She would live a long quieter life dying in 1972 aged 81. (11)
Yet another actress neighbor was Ethel Winthrop, who had appeared in major stage productions & 4 films including one with early screen scandal queen Clara Kimbal Young. The staid Ethel was no flapper though. She would live a long quieter life dying in 1972 aged 81. (11)
Yet another actress neighbor was Ethel Winthrop, who had appeared in major stage productions & 4 films including one with early screen scandal queen Clara Kimbal Young. The staid Ethel was no flapper though. She would live a long quieter life dying in 1972 aged 81. (11)
Some tabloid clippings of the cases; (12)
Some tabloid clippings of the cases; (12)
Some tabloid clippings of the cases; (12)
Some tabloid clippings of the cases; (12)
Two more (finis)
Two more (finis)
Two more (finis)
One more addition; A video someone made about the Dot King case (although she oddly misses the Lawson case);
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