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[13] [10] [12] On January 18, 1923, he died from influenza in a sanatorium, aged 31, while attempting to recover from his addiction. [14] [15] [16] Wallace Reid was interred in the Azalea Terrace of the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. [17]
Making his last film for the studio, Thirty Days (1922), Wallace was barely able to stand, let alone act. He died at the sanitarium, in Dorothy's arms, on the 18th day of January 1923 at the age of only 31. Wallace was the third major Paramount personality to be involved in scandal in 1922.
- Actor, Director, Writer
- January 18, 1923
- April 15, 1891
Nov 14, 2023 · Wallace Reid was a shining light in Hollywood's roaring twenties silent film era, but he was a tragedy in waiting, succumbing to a life of addiction and excess.
Actor, Director, Writer. Born: April 15, 1891 (St. Louis, Missouri) Died: January 18, 1923 (Los Angeles, California) Notable Films: Old Heidelberg, The Affairs of Anatol. By 1915, Wallace Reid, young and handsome, had been a performer for twenty years, making films for five of them.
Nov 8, 2013 · Today all that is widely remembered of "Wally" Reid is that he died in a padded sanitarium cell, the victim of a fatal morphine addiction. Of all the actors who have enjoyed great fame only to vanish from the public eye, Reid perhaps fell the fastest and the hardest.
- E.J. Fleming
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Died Jan. 18, 1923 of drug addiction in Hollywood, CA. W allace Reid was a film star whose death at the height of his stardom shocked Hollywood. Gaining fame from his work in "silents,"...