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Actress Rosamond Pinchot 1938 suicide...
Actress Rosamond Pinchot 1938 suicide...
Item # 722674
January 25, 1938
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, January 25, 1938
* Rosamond Pinchot suicide death
* Stage & film actress - socialite
The top of the front page has a one column heading: "Pinchot's Niece Kills Self" with subhead. (see images)
Complete with 28 pages; light toning at the margins, some small binding holes along the spine, 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.
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