Gone With the Wind
1940
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Plagued by ill health stemming from an unnamed surgical procedure, 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.
In 1955, she was plagued by ill health and committed suicide at the age of 51 with an overdose of barbiturates in her New York City apartment. Actress. She is best remembered for her role of southern madam Belle Watling in the classic 1939 film, "Gone With the Wind."
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 ...
- June 16, 1903
- February 11, 1955
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
At the time of her suicide in 1955, she had begun appearing in television. Blessed with a distinctive voice and clear American diction, she was among the better vocal actresses of the late 1920s.
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."
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.
