A cheap shot at Rita Hayworth. She may have had a drink problem but her daughter Yasmine Aga Khan finally put some preasure on her mother to seek help for drinking only to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease which had been misdiagnosed for many years thus giving her the appearance of being a drunk. You didn't mention anything about that!
Anyone ever notice how unhappy these "stars" seem to be? I guess fame and fortune don't equal happiness.
"ultimately ending in divorce in 1960". Like divorce ended her somehow. Betty Davis was a great actress
Most of these were part of the "Golden age of Hollywood " where actors and actresses were owned by the studios. The amount of work they produced is prodigious but the studios pushed liquor and drugs to get more work out of them.
Of all these victims of overindulgent lifestyles, Lee Marvin had as much a reason to do so likely more than most. His experiences during WWII, was fraught with any number of reasons to hide within the confines of a bottle. I realize that many soldiers coming home with such trauma found other ways to move on, but there was no counseling offered even remotely close to that of today. He was always close to his beloved Marine Corps
All 50 of them where phenomenal actors, so much talent on one screen at a time!
Lee Marvin and Audy Murphy may have had troubles with drinking and drugs, but if you saw, heard, or were involved in combat, you, too, would have troubles with alcohol/drugs. They suffered from PTSD. Audie was used by Hollywood.
I find it fascinating that with the odd exception most of the heavy drinkers lived to a rather advanced age …
Wouldn't it just be easier to tell us who wasn't an alcoholic in Hollywood?
Desi Arnaz was mentioned but not William Frawley??? He almost didn't get the role of Fred Mertz because of his drinking. But, because he agreed to always come to the set sober and to never drink while working, he got the role, knowing that if he drank on the set or came to work drunk he would be fired.