Now for something a bit noirish.
Arrested, October 15, 1948
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below: I'm hoping someone can help decipher was this says.
Something about...Earl Carroll...vagrancy....marijuana.
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I believe it mentions that one of the girls (Vicki Evans on the right) was involved in the notorious drug arrest with Robert Mitchum a month earlier. (see below)
http://framework.latimes.com/2014/10...na-charges/#/0
Sept. 1, 1948: Scene after police took four people into custody on charges of marijuana use. From left: policeman, actress Lila Leeds,
real estate agent Robin Ford, actor Robert Mitchum and dancer Vickie Evans with her back to the camera.
This photo was published in the Sept. 2, 1948, Los Angeles Times.
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From the Times article:
Sept. 1, 1948: Actor Robert Mitchum, age 31, and starlet Lila Leeds were reportedly caught smoking marijuana
during a police raid at the actress’ Hollywood Hills home. Two others were also arrested.
Mitchum told police that he and another friend were in the neighborhood looking to buy a house when they stopped
to visit Leeds and her roommate, dancer Vickie Evans.
The actor said he had trouble finding the home on Ridpath Drive, which one narcotics agent described
as “ideally situated to be a ‘reefer resort.’ It is perched on a hillside, with no near neighbors, and well-screened by shrubbery.”
Mitchum said: “The girls let us in and five minutes later Vickie went to answer the door and the police entered.”
Following his arrest, the actor “was by turns as full of remorse as one would expect from a top-bracket star,” the newspaper said.
“At other times he was full of philosophy as one might expect from an up-from-the-ranks player who once said he arrived in California
by bus with his wife and only $26.”
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Does anyone know the address of the house on Ridpath Drive? (the one the police referred to as a "reefer resort")
Ridpath Drive in Red
Google_Earth
I realize we've covered bit and pieces of this ordeal earlier in NLA, but it's been years ago.
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