Dinner at Eight
1934
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Jan 29, 2024 · In The Fixers, Fleming says MGM covered up Wallace Beery’s role in Healy’s death, asserting that by 1937 Healy was down on his luck, all but bankrupt and drinking heavily. He had recently married a much younger woman, who, on Dec. 17, gave birth to his first child, a son.
Mar 20, 2021 · Healy's friends contested the findings, however, and alleged that he had been beaten to death by mobster Pat DiCicco, future James Bond producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, and fellow 1930s screen star Wallace Beery.
Dec 18, 2015 · On December 23 the Los Angeles Daily News reported that Ted Healy had fought with wealthy New Yorker Albert Broccoli. Extraordinary as it may seem, the man was never questioned by police and the case was quickly closed. Dr A.F. Wagner, the autopsy surgeon, declared that Healy had died ‘from nephritis and alcoholism’.
Good Old Soak lobby card with Wallace Beery and Healy Healy died on December 21, 1937, at the age of 41, after an evening of celebration at the Trocadero nightclub on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles.
Jun 21, 2013 · In the Ted Healy story, we investigated the claims that he was beaten to death by Wallace Beery and found that they were false. That’s skepticism. But what I also encountered on this journey, oddly enough, is “contrarianism”: the desire, the need, the hunger for another reason to replace the findings released by the Los Angeles County ...
Apr 4, 2002 · Imagine that the gravel-voiced, 1930s-era screen star Wallace Beery and one of New York mobster Lucky Luciano’s top henchmen beat and stomped to death one of the country’s most famous comedians...
Jun 12, 2013 · In case you just tuned in, we are nearing the end of a long journey that began in April, when I stumbled across a Wikipedia entry claiming that Wallace Beery was involved in beating Ted Healy to death in the parking lot of the Cafe Trocadero in December 1937.
Jun 13, 2013 · I emphasize this because Broccoli was swept up years later in the “Wallace Beery beat Ted Healy to death” yarn that appears in E.J. Fleming’s “The Fixers” and (at least at one point) Wikipedia. After receiving “a whale of a beating” from an unidentified man at the Trocadero, Healy took a cab.
Wallace Fitzgerald Beery (April 1, 1885 – April 15, 1949) was an American film and stage actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Bill in Min and Bill (1930) opposite Marie Dressler, as General Director Preysing in Grand Hotel (1932), as Long John Silver in Treasure Island (1934), as Pancho Villa in Viva Villa!
IN the early hours of December 21, 1937, comedy star Ted Healy staggered out of the Cafe Trocadero, on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, dazed, bruised and bleeding. Taken by taxi to his hotel, he told friends who saw him that he had been beaten up by three college boys.
