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Jan 25, 2019 · As she began to explore the mystery surrounding her birth, she learned that her grandfather, Dr. George Hodel, was a suspect in the Black Dahlia murder case. The Fauna documentary features several clips from an unreleased 1991 movie about her youth titled Pretty Hattie's Baby, which starred Alfre Woodard.
- Did The Real Fauna Hodel Grow Up Poor in Nevada?
- Is Chris Pine's Character, Reporter Jay Singletary, Based on A Real person?
- Did Fauna's Cousin Die suspiciously?
- Who Was The Black Dahlia?
- Could Dr. George Hodel Have Been A Serial Killer?
- How Exactly Was Fauna Hodel Connected to The 1947 Black Dahlia Murder?
- Have There Been Any Other Movies Made About Fauna Hodel?
- Did Fauna Hodel Have Any Children?
Yes. A fact-check of the I Am the Nightminiseries confirms that Fauna grew up in poverty just outside of Reno, Nevada. Her adoptive parents were black. Her mother was a maid and her father was a shoe shine man. They raised her in Sparks, a town just east of Reno. When she was a child, she learned that she had been given away as a baby and had actua...
No. During an interview with CBS This Morning, director Patty Jenkins said that Chris Pine's character represents all of the males who were in the periphery of Fauna Hodel's story. So, at best, Jay Singletary is a combination of a number of different reporters and detectives who investigated the Black Dahlia murder, but there is no single person on...
Yes. Fauna and her husband Billy became even more suspicious that their phones were being tapped not long after Fauna's cousin Johnny called her out of the blue and asked if he could come visit. He kept telling her how attractive she was and called her "baby" and "sugar," telling her that he wanted to "feast his eyes on a sexy thang like herself." ...
The Black Dahlia was the name given to 22-year-old murder victim Elizabeth Short, an aspiring actress whose body was found on the chilly morning of January 15, 1947 in the Leimart Park area of South Los Angeles. What made the murder so shocking to the LAPD, all of Los Angeles, and indeed the world, was that Short's body was not just dumped on the s...
That's what his son, former LAPD homicide detective turned private investigator Steve Hodel (Fauna's uncle), believes. He is the author of the New York Times Bestseller Black Dahlia Avenger, a popular book on the infamous Black Dahlia murder case. He is confident that not only was his father the Black Dahlia murderer, Dr. George Hodel was linked to...
After Dr. George Hodel landed on the LAPD's radar when he was accused of molesting his 14-year-old daughter, Tamar, the police began looking at him as a suspect in the unsolved Black Dahlia murder case, which by then was over two years old. After the police tapped Dr. Hodel's phones and put him under surveillance, they overheard him making various ...
Yes. An unreleased 1991 film titled Pretty Hattie's Baby is based on the early life of Fauna Hodel. Alfre Woodard portrays Fauna's adoptive mother. The film deals with Fauna's adoptive family taking in a light-skinned child with a mysterious past, which includes her grandfather being a suspect in the Black Dahlia murder case. Fauna was heavily invo...
Dive deeper into the true story behind I Am the Nightby watching interviews with the real Fauna Hodel and her birth mother, Tamar Hodel.
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Jan 19, 2019 · I found a Nov. 24, 1990, feature in the Reno Gazette-Journal on “Pretty Hattie’s Baby,” which was being filmed on location in Reno. The film starred Alfre Woodard, Charles S. Dutton and Jill Clayburgh. For complicated reasons, it was never released. In the feature story by Sandra Macias, Fauna Hodel calls her biological mother, Tamar ...
Feb 25, 2019 · A film based on her life called Pretty Hattie’s Baby almost hit the big screen in 1991 but the film was never released, making I am the Night the first-ever adaptation of Fauna Hodel’s life.
With Alfre Woodard, Charles S. Dutton, Jill Clayburgh, Bobby Hosea. An unreleased film about a white girl adopted by a black family in 1950s Nevada. Based on the early life of Fauna Hodel whose grandfather is prime suspect in the Black Dahlia murder case.
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- Biography, Drama
- Ivan Passer
- Fauna Hodel, Rod McCall
Director. Ivan Passer. Synopsis. An unreleased film about a white girl adopted by a black family in 1950s Nevada. Based on the early life of Fauna Hodel whose grandfather is prime suspect in the...
An unreleased film telling the true-life struggle of Fauna Hodel, a white girl adopted by a black family in 1950s Nevada. The names have been changed to protect the guilty.
