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Sex, Death & The Hollywood Mystique

May 02, 1999 | IMDB 0

155 min Watch Now

Documentary

Larry Wessel presents darkest Hollywood and explores some of tinsel town's most grisly tragedies, including the murders of Sharon Tate and The Black Dahlia.

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Jonathan Gilmore, Curtis Harrington, Forrest J. Ackerman, Kelly Monroe, Nicholas Fruktow, Eva Ford, Kerine Elkins, Goddess Bunny, Jacque Lawson

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