Dead in Hollywood is a true-crime web series of strange and tragic Hollywood deaths.
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Billy Daniels is an American singer who was most notable for his hit recording of "That Old Black Magic" and his pioneering performances on early 1950s television. He died at the age of 73 in Los Angeles, and was buried at the El Camino Memorial Park in Sorrento Valley, San Diego, California. He was one of the first African-American entertainers to cross over into the mainstream and his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame lies alongside that of Jerry Lewis.
David Bowie and Marlene Dietrich appear together in the 1978 movie "Just a Gigolo." "Gigolo" is a West German film starring David Bowie. It also features Sydney Rome, Kim Novak and, in her last screen appearance, Marlene Dietrich. The hostile reception the film receives leads Bowie to quip that it is "My 32 Elvis Presley movies rolled into one."
Marlene Dietrich's life is transformed in 1929 when she is cast as the tawdry cabaret singer who starts Emil Jannings on his descent into madness in the German film "The Blue Angel." American audiences are introduced to her in the film "Morocco," with Dietrich playing a wayward chanteuse who sings her first number in a gender-bending top hat and tails and kisses another woman full on the lips. Theater critic, Kenneth Peacock Tynan, describes Dietrich as βSex without gender.β From the start her sexuality was at the core of her stardom. "Morocco" earns Dietrich her only Academy Award nomination.
Dietrich's show business career ends on September 29, 1975 when she falls off the stage and breaks her thigh during a performance in Sydney, Australia. The following year, her husband, Rudolf Sieber, dies of cancer. An alcoholic dependent on painkillers, Dietrich withdraws to her apartment at 12 Avenue Montaigne in Paris. She spends the final 11 years of her life mostly bedridden, allowing only a select few to enter the apartment. During this time, she is a prolific letter-writer and phone-caller. Her autobiography, Nehmt nur mein Leben (Take Just My Life), is published in 1979.
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