The Godless Girl
1929
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Prevost died on January 21, 1937, at the age of 40, evidently from the combination of acute alcoholism and malnutrition stemming from anorexia nervosa. [18] [19] [20] Her body was not discovered until January 23 after neighbors complained about her dog's incessant barking.
Jan 27, 2017 · “Marie dragged on until 1937, when her half-eaten corpse was discovered in her seedy apartment on Calhuenga Boulevard. Her dachshund had survived by making mincemeat of his mistress.”
At the young age of 40, Marie prevost had died from alcoholism and malnutrition. She'd stopped eating in an effort to drop some weight, but combined with her drinking problem, this only led to her demise.
Oct 31, 2013 · But in 1926, while starring in one of her six films with the original movie star Harrison Ford (you didn’t know there were two, did ya?), Marie’s mother died in a car accident. It hit Prevost pretty hard, and that, coupled with her divorce from Harlan, sent Marie straight to the bottle.
- Dixie Laite
Nov 8, 2012 · The first of these happened when her mother was killed in a car accident, an event that left Marie Prevost inconsolable. When the Depression started, she was let go by the Producers, and she found herself without a contract or a studio.
Miss Prevost was trying desperately to lose weight. She had virtually stopped eating and had replaced food with alcohol. Reports at the time felt she had died on January 21, 1937, but was not found until January 23.
Apr 17, 2014 · Tragedy followed Marie Prevost from her Sarnia hometown to Hollywood where she found, and lost, fame as a moving picture star. She was born Mary Dunn in Sarnia in the late 1890s, shortly before...
