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What does this have to do with Geena Davis?


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Yeah, I'd really like to know too. Geena is no longer on the A-list, but she is far from destitute.

Likewise I agree this has nothing to do with Geena Davis (for one, I am a big fan, and for another, she's been busy having kids, and is as busy with motion pictures as she wants to be. She'll return when she feels like it).

> example might be an Oscar winner, making
> tens of millions of dollars, who ends up homeless

Someone could put together a much better list than me. In a sense, falling out of the Hollywood scene almost always happens (life long careers are the rare exception); and some are lucky or cautious enough to have fallen out with friends and savings and an alternate career (or at least real estate investments to collect rent on).

A lot feel in 1930 from a combination of stock market crash (which wiped out many savings, and reduced ticket sales) and the arrival of sound (many silent actors had no experience or talent delivering lines).

Fatty Arbuckle (result of scandal; did some work after under a different name)

Mae Murray the girl with the "bee stung lips" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_Murray "Murray's finances continued to collapse, and for most of her later life she lived in poverty... She later moved into the Motion Picture House in Woodland Hills, a retirement community for Hollywood professionals"

Veronica Lake. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Lake "After breaking her ankle in 1959, Lake was unable to continue working as an actress. She and McCarthy divorced, and she drifted between cheap hotels in Brooklyn and New York City and was arrested several times for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct. A reporter found her working as a barmaid at the all women's Martha Washington Hotel in Manhattan. At first, Veronica claimed that she was a guest at the hotel and covering for a friend. Soon afterward, she admitted that she was employed at the bar. The reporter's widely distributed story led to some television and stage appearances."

Many more disappeared, but were financially very well off (Clara Bow among zillion of examples)

Likewise I agree this has nothing to do with Geena Davis (for one, I am a big fan, and for another, she's been busy having kids, and is as busy with motion pictures as she wants to be. She'll return when she feels like it).

> example might be an Oscar winner, making
> tens of millions of dollars, who ends up homeless

Someone could put together a much better list than me. In a sense, falling out of the Hollywood scene almost always happens (life long careers are the rare exception); and some are lucky or cautious enough to have fallen out with friends and savings and an alternate career (or at least real estate investments to collect rent on).

A lot feel in 1930 from a combination of stock market crash (which wiped out many savings, and reduced ticket sales) and the arrival of sound (many silent actors had no experience or talent delivering lines).

Fatty Arbuckle (result of scandal; did some work after under a different name)

Mae Murray the girl with the "bee stung lips" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_Murray "Murray's finances continued to collapse, and for most of her later life she lived in poverty... She later moved into the Motion Picture House in Woodland Hills, a retirement community for Hollywood professionals"

Veronica Lake. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Lake "After breaking her ankle in 1959, Lake was unable to continue working as an actress. She and McCarthy divorced, and she drifted between cheap hotels in Brooklyn and New York City and was arrested several times for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct. A reporter found her working as a barmaid at the all women's Martha Washington Hotel in Manhattan. At first, Veronica claimed that she was a guest at the hotel and covering for a friend. Soon afterward, she admitted that she was employed at the bar. The reporter's widely distributed story led to some television and stage appearances."

Many more disappeared, but were financially very well off (Clara Bow among zillion of examples)

I'm pretty sure movie theatres did alright during the depression. Escapism, people had a lot of free time, etc.

Another examples: Louise Brooks after being the highest paid actress in Hollywood in the 1920s, she ended up working at saks department store, Hedy Lamarr, one of the most beautiful actresses in Hollywood went to jail few times for shoplifting and the saddest case was Frances Farmer who was raped and lobotomized and end her days alone.