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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
"with the trollop Barbara Payton." -austlar1
You know I love you all dearly, especially you Gaylord_Wilshire, but I'm a bit uncomfortable with the disparaging remarks
about Barbara Payton.
None of us can possibly understand what was going in her mind.
To me she seemed to be struggling with an undiagnosed bipolar disorder.
Give her the benefit of the doubt and let her rest in peace.
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I'm really not interested in Barbara Payton at all, other than as a sad noir footnote. I'm not sure why we're now expected to venerate her, and I definitely won't try to give her a psychiatric evaluation, any more than I would Mickey Cohen, Virginia Hill, Hazel Glab, Betty Short, Brenda Allen or any of the other characters we've discussed. Are there to be only genteel references to the dark side of Hollywood figures of the noir era on a thread called Noirish Los Angeles?