Old Hollywood’s Dirty Secrets

“I gathered up all the bottles and locked them up. Then I began the search for pills,” he claimed. “You wouldn’t believe the cleverness of that woman in stashing her drugs so nobody could find them. And there were all kinds. Uppers, downers, and some I didn’t even recognize. They were stuffed into a hole she’d cut under the mattress and in rubber fingers tied at the top with the string tied again around the faucet of the washbasin. The pills were down in the crook of the pipe, and when she wanted them she just pulled them up by the almost invisible string. I dumped all that junk down the toilet and flushed it away.”

When Garland discovered what Otash had done, she demanded an explanation. He responded: “Narcotics and alcohol are the best evidence he [Luft] could ever produce in court. Believe me.”

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