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15 year-old Harlan Carpenter caught scarlet fever at camp Chaton-ka,in the summer of 1926, that was followed by glomerulonephritis, a post streptococcal kidney infection that had induced high blood pressure hypertension and nephritis. Her kidneys had degenerated steadily ever since.
— Sep 30, 2026 02:06PM
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David Parker
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I wasn’t born an actress. Events made me one.
She literally learned on the job, mutating from wooden sexpot to sublime comic, to serious actress.
Elton John’s ‘Norma Jean’ could have easily been written about her.
— Sep 30, 2026 03:26PM
She literally learned on the job, mutating from wooden sexpot to sublime comic, to serious actress.
Elton John’s ‘Norma Jean’ could have easily been written about her.
David Parker
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After 42 movies, 3 marriages, 2 abortions, scandals, alcoholism, gonorrhea, and heartbreak, Harlow had lived too hard for a twenty-six-year-old.
At least acute nephritis would take her off the treadmill.
— Sep 30, 2026 02:00PM
At least acute nephritis would take her off the treadmill.
David Parker
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The mix; peroxide, ammonia, Clorox, and Lux flakes, made it letal.
— Sep 30, 2026 08:51AM
David Parker
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Bride at sixteen, a bit player at seventeen, a star at eighteen, a divorce at nineteen a mobster’s mistress at twenty, then a bride again at twenty-one (and a widow two months later), Harlow sought solace in liquor.
— Sep 29, 2026 06:38PM