![]() ![]() This and some of the other surprising aspects of her eventful life are listed below. In the years since her tragic demise, her legacy has been reassessed, with fans drawing attention not just to her magnetic presence on screen but her considerable intellect and outspokenness about the sexism of Hollywood, at a time when doing so was almost impossible. She is unlikely ever to be forgotten, even if she is not always remembered quite how she would have liked. They showed her to be someone with creative flair, literary passions, and a desire to make her craft be its very best, even though her unhappy childhood, fraught personal life, experiences of sexual abuse and struggles with addiction ultimately proved to be her undoing, contributing to her death from a drug overdose in 1962. However, the discovery of her archive of letters and diary entries, "Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters," has shed light on the turbulent thoughts and desires of a woman who was always so much more than what she appeared. One of the great tragedies of her life was that she never quite became the serious thespian she so longed to be. ![]()
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