145: Ramon Novarro (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 19)

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• Episode: 145: Ramon Novarro (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 19)
• Website: You Must Remember This
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• Duration: 00:54:01
• Published: 2019-01-29 06:00

Ramon Novarro was a Mexican actor and singer whose stardom at MGM in the 1920s and 30s was not impeded by his offscreen life as a gay man. In Hollywood Babylon, Anger focuses only on Novarro’s grisly murder in 1968 -- which outed Novarro to a public that had largely forgotten him--and needlessly embellishes a crime scene that was already pretty horrible. Today, in our final episode of Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon, we will explore the life which Anger left out of Hollywood Babylon, and correct that book’s version of Novarro’s death.