WHY??
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amandybug822 — 21 years ago(September 28, 2004 11:27 PM)
I'm watching The Secret of NIMH right now, and I thought I'd look up the movie to see what NIMH stood for.
Then I clicked on Elizabeth Hartman's name to see what else she'd been in.
Imagine how shocked I am to hear she jumped to her death from a window! No wonder I hadn't heard more from her.
Poor woman! That's one of the saddest things I've ever heard!
-Amanda -
xavrush89 — 21 years ago(February 17, 2005 01:18 AM)
If you want to add insult to injury, look up the IMDb biographies of these unfortunate souls (all gorgeous too):
Pier Angeli
Inger Stevens
Ona Munson (left a chilling note behind)
Capucine
Montgomery Clift (not a suicide technically, but)
Jean Seberg
Bridgette Andersen (Savannah Smiles)
Peg Entwistle
Outside the movie industry, look up cabaret singer Susannah McCorkle (
http://susannahmccorkle.home.mindspring.com/
), author Iris Chang, and punk rocker Wendy O. Williams.
Their stories are not as unbelievable to anyone who has dealt with depression or loved someone who has. I encourage everyone to get to know them and see how prevalent it is and how deep the problem can be.
KAKISTOCRACY (n.) - a society governed by its worst citizens. -
mcdoodad49 — 21 years ago(February 24, 2005 02:55 AM)
I read Ms. Hartman's obituary at the time of her death. It said that she was no longer able to secure work in the movie and entertainment business and was living on welfare. Her welfare stipend each month was only $350. This probably added to her depression and helped her make her final decision.
I don't kick people in the shins. I aim higher. -
mcdoodad49 — 21 years ago(February 28, 2005 02:04 PM)
sugar-bear, I searched the web and couldn't find any more information about Ms. Hartman than what is on this website. All of the bios on her are very brief. The obituary was in the Dallas Times Herald which has been defunct for over 12 years. If I manage to discover anything, I'll let you know.
I don't kick people in the shins. I aim higher. -
flkfrek-1 — 21 years ago(March 14, 2005 03:42 PM)
Greetings people.
Now I don't claim to be the "Elizabeth Hartman" expert, but I vividly remember two big articles that came out within 10 months of her tragic death. For people wanting answers to "what made her do it", sorry, but the answer is simply elusive. Her family would get upset at the suggestion that it was her career that caused her to jump out her window - they emphasized that there was so much more to it then that.
For me, the saddest part of one of the articles I read is when the article started. It explained that homocide detectives were interviewing people who lived in the area - cause nobody was really sure who this woman was. The neighbors who knew anything THOUGHT she was an unemployed actress who had been in some movie with Sidney Portier many years ago. Hartman would have hated that - until the day she died, when people asked her what she did, she would say "I'm a film actress." Some therapists thought it was one of her delusions - they didn't know she really was.
Keep in mind that she would not be diagnosed with any mental illness until well into the 1970s - and even then, no doctor was really truly sure exactly what it was she suffered from. My only theory as to "why" was she simply had another anxiety attack and said "Enough". I only hope now she has found the peace that she never found here.
She will live on in her film work - and Thank God we have that. -
hildy-1 — 20 years ago(August 11, 2005 09:02 AM)
I'm watching the Beguiled and looking at the info here on imdb and was a bit surprised to see the Ms. Hartman took her life on June 10, 1987 and Geraldine Page who co-starred in this movie with her died on June 13, 1987just an interesting tidbit.
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Jon_Quill — 20 years ago(April 12, 2005 07:20 PM)
Other Hollywood suicides:
Lupe Velez (Tried to photograph her own death.)
Chyenne Brando (Six time's a charm)
John Erik Hexum (It was a suicide and not horseplay with blanks as most commonly known.)
Gig Young (Killed wife, then self)
Margaret Sullavan (O.D.ed like Marilyn)
Anissa Jones (Family Affair's Buffy-see Margaret Sullavan)
Sylvia Plath (cooked herself)
Ernest and Margaux Hemingway (Father and daughter suicides-separate times)
Linda Darnell (Either a suicide or a final act of heroism when she ran back into that burning set.) -
Golgo-13 — 19 years ago(January 29, 2007 09:13 AM)
G13
Peace through strength.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtYnihTt3hg -
TheLightFantastic — 15 years ago(October 11, 2010 01:51 AM)
John Erik Hexum (It was a suicide and not horseplay with blanks as most commonly known.)
This is off topic and a years old message, but this "statement" is simply wrong, wrong, wrong. Jon-Erik Hexum's death was officially ruled
accidental
. His mother even received a settlement from Twentieth Century Fox Television due to negligence which would not be the case if his death were a suicide. You can debate all day long if you think he shot himself on purpose, but please don't state things as if they're official. Your opinion is not fact.
Sylvia Plath (cooked herself)
Wrong again (pathetically worded as well). Plath died of carbon monoxide poisoning due to gas inhalation. No fire was involved and her body was not "cooked".
Lupe Velez (Tried to photograph her own death.)
Lupe Velez did not try to photograph her own death. She did attempt to plan a beautifully staged suicide but no camera was involved.
Linda Darnell (Either a suicide or a final act of heroism when she ran back into that burning set.)
Geezyou should've really stopped with the other whoppers.
Ms. Darnell was staying at a friend's home. She was not on a set. She tried to get out of the home when the fire started but couldn't get out the door. She never went back into a burning house and she didn't intentionally burn herself alive.
You really shouldn't rely on gossip rags and unreliable books like Hollywood Babylon for your celebrity death information. Spouting nonsense like this as fact is a disservice to anyone who has the misfortune of stumbling upon your posts. -
namaGemo — 11 years ago(July 21, 2014 03:09 PM)
Interestingly enough, Inger Stevens also starred opposite of Poitier in The World, the Flesh, and the Devil, and both Hartman and Stevens appears in Rod Serling's anthologies.
Hagen also starred with Brenda Benet in Walking Tall. Brenda was married to Bill Bixby, they divorced after their son died of cardiac arrest, and Brenda committed suicide in the bathroom placing a pistol in her mouth.
Both tragic.