Gone With the Wind
1940
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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]
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."
Jun 23, 2021 · Ona Munson was born Owena Elizabeth Wolcott on June 16, 1903 in Portland, Oregon. She took singing and dancing lessons when she was a child. She took singing and dancing lessons when she was a child. At the age of fourteen, Ona moved to New York City with her mother.
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
Sep 14, 2005 · When Munson committed suicide in 1955, Berman moved to Rome, where he died in 1972, heartbroken and bitter because his brand of hyper-theatrical Surrealism had fallen out of fashion.
Munson was married three times, to actor and director Edward Buzzell in 1927, to Stewart McDonald in 1941, and designer Eugene Berman in 1949. 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.
Portrait of Ona Munson and Eugene Berman. (Original Caption) Former screen star Ona Munson, 50, was found dead in her New York home today near a note declaring death was the only way she knew "to be free again." In this recent photo the ex-actress is shown with third husband, painter-scenic designer Eugene Berman, at their luxurious West 84th ...
