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Actress Rosamond Pinchot suicide...
Actress Rosamond Pinchot suicide...
Item # 719290
January 24, 1938
NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM, January 24, 1938
* Rosamond Pinchot suicide death
* Stage & film actress - socialite
The front page has a four column headline: "ROSAMOND PINCHOT FOUND DEAD; HOSE IN GARAGE INDICATES SUICIDE" with subhead and nice photo. (see images) First report coverage continues inside with another related photo.
Complete with 32 pages; light toning and minor wear at the margins, generally nice.
background: Rosamond Pinchot (1904–1938), daughter of reform lawyer Amos Pinchot, was celebrated in the 1920s as one of the most beautiful women in America, achieving sudden fame when cast in Max Reinhardt’s stage spectacle The Miracle in 1927 and later appearing in a handful of films and Broadway productions. Though admired for her striking presence, her acting career proved brief, and she became better known in New York society as a glamorous hostess and figure in artistic and political circles. Despite outward success, her personal life was marked by dissatisfaction and strain, including a troubled marriage to the playwright Francis Bowes Sayre Jr. and difficulties reconciling her public image with private unhappiness. On January 24, 1938, at the age of 33, she was found dead in her car near Old Westbury, Long Island, an apparent suicide by gas asphyxiation. Her death shocked both theatrical and social worlds, and when her father Amos took his own life only weeks later, it underscored a tragic chapter in the history of the prominent Pinchot family.
Category: The 20th Century
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