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Bathing Beauty Thelma Hill was one of Mack Sennett's more talented comedy heroines in the 1950s. She epitomized the high energy, vivacious comedic flapper. She vivacious in real life, too. A little too much. In the 1930s, as her career faltered, she became a raging alcoholic. She was also dieting herself to death hoping for a comeback that never came. In 1938, she succumbed at the age of 31 in a Culver City sanitarium. Newspapers barely reported it. One death notice said that she died from a stomach ailment. Wikipedia states that she died from a brain hemorrhage, although the latter claim is not footnoted. Let's just say that she died from complications due to alcoholism.

My name is Craig Owens, a photographer/blogger for the popular Facebook Page "Bizarre Los Angeles" and the author of the book, "Haunted by History Vol. 1," separating the facts and legends of eight historic, haunted hotels in Southern California. I have always been in love with Old Hollywood. I love it for its glamour, its style, its mythology and its decadence, which always seems to be bubbling just below its surface. I'm a firm believer that its history should not be forgotten even if its architecture and carbon footprints are slowly being replaced.