Feb 2
On this day seventy years ago (2 February 1956), wildly scurrilous and irresponsible scandal rag Whisper ran a lurid cover story exposé accusing television horror movie hostess Vampira (aka Maila Nurmi) of casting a voodoo hex on James Dean and causing his fatal 1955 car crash! My inquiring mind also needs to know what the Eartha Kitt story “In the Pit” alleges! Scan via The Drunken Severed Head blog.
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