Daily Deceased Fun Fact:

Lana Turner Home
730 North Bedford Drive
Beverly Hills, CA

It is here on the night of April 4, 1958 that mobster Johnny Stompanato was stabbed to death by Lana Turner’s daughter, Cheryl. Allegedly,  she had grabbed a kitchen knife after hearing Stompanato and her mother in a violent argument. The killing was ruled a justifiable homicide after the courts deemed Cheryl was attempting to defend her mother. 

This is the kind of sordid story that Los Angeles loves. There are a lot of theories about what happened that night. Cheryl claims that Stompanato walked into the knife. But, whatever the real story is….he got the point. 

Daily Deceased Fun Fact:

Monta Bell (February 5, 1891 – February 4, 1958)
Hollywood Forever, Hollywood CA

American film director, producer, and editor. He is best known for directing Greta Garbo’s first American film “Torrent.” 

No word if she “wanted to be alone” during the shooting of that film…

Daily Deceased Fun Fact:

Hannah Chaplin (August 11, 1865 – August 28, 1928)
Hollywood Forever, Hollywood CA

Charlie Chaplin’s mother who spent her life in and out of mental institutions. Eventually, Charlie and his brother moved her to Hollywood to look after her. It’s here she died in 1928 at the age of 63.

Daily Deceased Fun Fact:

Charles Boyer (August 28, 1899 – August 26, 1978)
Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City CA

Successful French actor who found acclaim in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976. In fact, his long career garnered him the nickname “The Last of the Cinema’s Great Lovers.”

This journalist is hoping to one day regain this title…