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Plagued by ill health stemming from an unnamed surgical procedure, [12] Munson committed suicide at the age of 51 with an overdose of barbiturates in her apartment in The Belnord on Manhattan's Upper West Side. [12] Her body was discovered by her husband Berman on the afternoon of February 11, 1955. [12]
Her suicide note read, "This is the only way I know to be free again." NOTES: "Ona Munson Emerges," NY Times (Nov 28, 1926), X:2. "Ona Munson, Star of 'Tip-Toes'," LA Times (Jun 23, 1926), A:8. LA Times (Sep 17, 1931). "Ona Munson to Star in Films,' LA Times (Feb 26, 1931).
On February 1955 she committed suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills. She was fifty-one years old. Ona left a note that said "This is the only way I know to be free again ...
- January 1, 1
- Portland, Oregon, USA
- January 1, 1
- New York City, New York, USA
During the early 1950s Ona appeared in a few television shows. Unfortunately she was plagued by health problems and became very depressed. On February 1955 she committed suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills. She was fifty-one years old. Ona left a note that said "This is the only way I know to be free again ... Please don't follow me."
- June 16, 1903
- February 11, 1955
Sadly, Ms. Munson felt her role as the tainted Belle Watling typecast her, thus ruining her Hollywood career. She tragically made mention of this fact in her suicide note sixteen years later, when she died at the age of forty-nine.
In 1955, plagued by ill health, she committed suicide at the age of 51 with an overdose of barbiturates in her apartment in New York. A note found next to her deathbed read, "This is the only way I know to be free again...Please don't follow me."
Due to uffering from depression for years, the 51 year old actress died by suicide on February 11, 1955 in her New York apartment from an overdose of barbiturates, leaving the note, "This is the only way I know to be free again...Please don't follow me."
