July 27, 2020

S5 Ep176: Stranger Than Fiction: Starr Faithfull and "BUtterfield 8"

S5 Ep176: Stranger Than Fiction: Starr Faithfull and "BUtterfield 8"
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The life and tragic death of a young socialite in the 1930s inspires an Academy Award winning movie. But, Starr Faithfull's life was far from the glamorous treatment it would receive on the big screen.

Resources:
Ripped from the Headlines: The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movie's Most Memorable Crimes by Harold Schechter (Little A, 2020)

The Passing of Starr Faithfull by Jonathan Goodman (Piatkus, 1990).

Open Files: A Narrative Encyclopedia of the World's Greatest Unsolved Crimes by Jay Robert Nash (Rowman & Littlefield, 1983).

BUtterfield 8, (1960), directed by Daniel Mann for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Eddie Fisher, Laurence Harvey

Links:
www.haroldschechter.com