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- Vassourinha was born on 16 May 1923 in São Paulo, Brazil. He was an actor, known for Fazendo Fitas (1935). He died on 3 August 1942 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Was born in Moscow. Mother - Lyarskaya Akulina Lukjianovna. The wife - Vanda Frantsevna Gavrilova.
In 1938 he had been selected on a leading role in first two films under Maxim Gorky's trilogy. This role became his unique work on cinema. Upon termination of shootings the first set he had presented the camera, and after completion of the second set had awarded with a medal.
In 1939 Alexey had a rest in Artek.
With the beginning of war he had left on front. After the short period of study he had been directed on Northwest front to area Lychkovo - Lyubnitsa. In structure of 365-th a separate artillery battalion was at war on Demjanski Battle and was lost on February, 8th, 1943.
Alexei was buried in village Kipino of area Demjansk of the Novgorod area. Pupils of the Kipino school had created in it a corner of memory of A.Lyarsky.
Nowadays the Kipino school are not present, it has merged with other, larger school as the village in Russia, in fact, dies out. The monument to 800 fighters who had lost at Kipino, still stands. Also Alesha Lyarsky was buried there. - Actor
- Soundtrack
Kent Rogers was born on 31 July 1923 in Houston, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Horton Hatches the Egg (1942), All-American Co-Ed (1941) and The Heckling Hare (1941). He died on 9 July 1944 in Pensacola, Florida, USA.- Kim Malthe-Bruun was born on 8 July 1923 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Kim was a writer, known for Quest (1961). Kim died on 6 April 1945 in Ryvangen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Irma Grese was born on 7 October 1923 in Wrechen, Feldberger Seenlandschaft, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. She died on 13 December 1945 in Hameln, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Actress
Beverly Andre was born on 29 November 1923 in Riverside, California, USA. She was an actress. She died on 6 December 1948 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Steve Drake was born on 12 December 1923 in Wichita, Kansas, USA. He was an actor, known for Black Hills (1947), The Gallant Legion (1948) and The Westward Trail (1948). He died on 19 December 1948 in Burbank, California, USA.
- Actress
Jean was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1923. She graduated from Franklin High School in Los Angeles in 1941. Soon, Jean was working as a model for a local clothing firm. Later, she was a dancer with the Earl Carroll Theatre. Jean got married to Dexter Benner, and they had a daughter, Christine, in 1944. Two years later, in 1946, she had a bitter court battle with her ex-husband regarding the custody of their young daughter. In 1948, ruling a daughter's place is with her mother, a judge awarded full custody to Jean. Sultry and statuesque, Jean, a divorced mother and nightclub dancer, struggled to make it as an actress; she was a bit player and uncredited extra in movies and early television. In 1949, she met Kirk Douglas on the set of Young Man with a Horn (1950), which was released February 9, 1950. On October 7, 1949, when she was 3 months pregnant, she disappeared. A note was found in her purse that read: "Kirk, Can't wait any longer. Going to see Dr. Scott. It will work best this way while mother is away." All the police found was her purse and this cryptic note -- Jean had vanished without a trace. Her disappearance is still an unsolved mystery.- Jim Rigsby was born on 6 June 1923 in Spadra, Arkansas, United States. He died on 31 August 1952 in Dayton, Ohio, United States.
- Music Artist
- Music Department
- Composer
Hank Williams was born in September 1923 in a small Alabama farming community about 70 miles south of Montgomery. His father was a railroad engineer who was also a victim of shell shock after a year of fighting in France in 1918 during World War I and spent many years in veterans hospitals. Hank's mother, Lillian Skipper Williams, played the organ in their local church and taught him gospel songs when he was six. When Hank turned 10 he taught himself to play the guitar, mostly by watching other guitarists.
In his teens Hank learned to play and sing country songs that he heard on the family radio, and picked up some blues chords from a black friend who was a street musician named Tee-Tot (Rufe Payne). At the age of 14 Hank put together his own band, playing at hoedowns and other get-together, where he won a local talent contest competition with his composition "WPA Blues." At 17, Hank put together a group called 'Hank Williams' Original Drifting Cowboys' and they successfully auditioned for the manager of WSFS Radio in Montgomery, where they played regularly on the air. Hank met his first wife Audrey Williams during a traveling medicine show and they were married in December 1944 at an Alabama gas station. Audrey was a strong-willed woman who became Hank's booking agent, road manager and promoter. It was she who encouraged the stage-frightened Hank to perform on stage and helped book gigs outside of Alabama.
In 1946 Hank and Audrey traveled to Nashville to secure a music publishing contract with producer Fred Rose, head of the Acuff-Rose publishing firm, who asked Hank to write a song on the spot. The song, "Mansion on the Hill", landed Hank a publishing contract with Acuff-Rose. During the late 1940s Hank--a tall, thin man who alway wore a short-brimmed, white cowboy hat--had his peak years when MGM Records signed him for a recording contract and he became a regular on "Louisiana Hayride", a KWKH radio show in Shreveport, Louisiana. In 1949, after the birth of Hank and Audrey's son Hank Williams Jr., Hank was asked to join the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, where he made his stage debut on June 11, 1949.
From 1949 to 1950, Hank became country music's top artist, with hits like "Lovesick Blues," "My Bucket's Got a Hole in It," "Moanin' the Blues" and "Why Don't You Love Me." His 1951 hits included "Hey, Good Lookin'" "Cold, Cold Heart" and "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You)." Hits of 1952 were "Honky Tonk Blues," "Jambalaya," and "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive."
However, Hank's unprecedented success came with a price. A heavy drinker since his late teens, Hank proved to be an undependable performer when be began showing up for concerts drunk, and sometimes didn't show up at all. When Audrey divorced him in 1951 due to their constant fights over his drinking, his band began to become disillusioned with him, too, and the Grand Ole Opry suspended him from appearing at live shows. In October 1952 Hank married his second wife, 19-year-old Billie Jean Jones, who was no more successful than Audrey in protecting Hank from himself. Also, the Drifting Cowboys departed that same month due to Hank's violent mood swings and unpredictability. He was still in demand for live performances, though.
On the early morning hours on New Year's Day 1953, while traveling through West Virginia on the way to a show in Canton, Ohio, Hank Williams died in his sleep in the back seat of his Cadillac limousine at the age of 29.- Soundtrack
Jean Marco was born on 17 December 1923 in Istanbul, Turkey. He died on 25 June 1953 in Connerré, Sarthe, France.- David Johnston was born on 10 August 1923 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. He was a producer, known for Wings of the Hawk (1953). He died on 10 February 1954 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA.
- Onofre Marimón was born on 19 December 1923 in Zárate, Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina. He died on 31 July 1954 in Nürburgring, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
- Stig Dagerman was born on 5 October 1923 in Älvkarleby, Uppland, Sweden. He was a writer, known for German Autumn, Nattlekar and En natt på Glimmingehus (1954). He was married to Anita Björk. He died on 5 November 1954 in Enebyberg, Stockholms län, Sweden.
- Ira Hayes was a Pima Indian from Arizona who enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942. On February 23, 1945, Ira Hayes was one of six marines who raised the U. S. Flag on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. The event was immortalized by photographer Joe Rosenthal. For his actions, Ira Hayes was awarded the Medal of Honor.
- Ira H. Hayes was born on 12 January 1923 in Sacaton, Arizona, USA. He was an actor, known for Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) and To the Shores of Iwo Jima (1945). He died on 24 January 1955 in Bapchule, Arizona, USA.
- Barbara Graham was born on 26 June 1923 in Oakland, California, USA. She was a writer, known for I Want to Live! (1958) and I Want to Live (1983). She was married to Henry Graham, Charles Oldman, Al Bushnell and Harry Kleman. She died on 3 June 1955 in San Quentin, California, USA.
- Elsebeth Rex was born on 29 January 1923 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Carl Pedersen (1949), Lyn-fotografen (1950) and Cabaret la Blonde (1952). She died on 22 April 1957.
- Actor
- Writer
Gordon Urquhart was born on 24 September 1923 in Illinois, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Brain Eaters (1958), Female Jungle (1955) and Chicagoland Mystery Players (1949). He was married to Peggy Middleton. He died on 7 September 1957 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Writer
- Actor
Roy Erwin was born on 1 July 1923 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Jungle Jim (1955), Captain Midnight (1954) and Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers (1956). He was married to Nancy English. He died on 18 June 1958 in Baja California, Mexico.- Actress
- Soundtrack
The daughter of stage actress Laura R. Parrish, lovely slim-eyed brunette Helen Parrish was born on March 12, 1923 (references sometimes vary between 1922 and 1924), in Columbus, Georgia. She started out in movies at the ripe old age of four playing Babe Ruth's daughter in the silent movie Babe Comes Home (1927). She was also featured in "Our Gang" comedy shorts and was sometimes cast to play the lead character as a child/youngster. A couple of those femme stars were Loretta Young in Beau Ideal (1931) and Mary Brian in Song of the Eagle (1933).
Into her teens, Helen became established as a cinematic kid sister, neighborhood friend or rich young girl in such films as There's Always Tomorrow (1934), Straight from the Heart (1935) and A Dog of Flanders (1935). She was most notable, however, as the bane of sweet Deanna Durbin's existence in several of the singing star's musical vehicles -- usually a jealous, spiteful rival. In their first film, Mad About Music (1938), the two worked so well together that Universal decided to form a sort of teen Shirley Temple/Jane Withers stand-off between the two in a couple of other movie confections as well -- Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939) and First Love (1939).
Most of Helen's film offerings were quite pleasant but rather unexceptional and nominally in the "B" category, including X Marks the Spot (1931), When a Feller Needs a Friend (1932), A Dog of Flanders (1935), I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now (1940), Too Many Blondes (1941) and X Marks the Spot (1942) (same name, different plot from her earlier film). By her mid-20s Helen filmed her last picture as the second lead in the "B" western The Wolf Hunters (1949). Focusing on the smaller screen into the 1950's, she appeared in a number of TV anthologies, including "Fireside Theatre" and "Chevon Theatre," and ended her on-camera career as a guest on "Leave It to Beaver" and "The Danny Thomas Show."
Helen's older brother, Robert Parrish, was a minor child actor who later earned respect as a film editor and director; older sister, child actress Beverly Parrish, died suddenly at the age of 10 after filming only one movie. Helen married twice. Her first husband was actor/screenwriter Charles Lang and her second, TV producer, John Guedel, survived her. She had no children.
Helen's untimely death from cancer in February 22, 1959, at age 35, robbed Hollywood of a glowing actress with true potential.- Clorinda Alderette was born on 16 May 1923 in Grant County, New Mexico, USA. She was an actress, known for Salt of the Earth (1954). She died on 25 February 1959 in Denver, Colorado, USA.
- Ivor Bueb was born on 6 June 1923 in East Ham, London, England, United Kingdom. He died on 1 August 1959 in Clermont-Ferrand, France.
- Tulli Sjöblom was born on 6 February 1923 in Stockholm, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Ungt blod (1943). She died on 2 December 1959 in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Tall, regal, sultry, flame-haired (later blonde) Lynn Baggett is better remembered for her turbulent, unhappy private life than for her "B" level acting roles. Born Ruth Baggett in Wichita Falls, Texas, on May 10, 1923, her father, David L., was in the oil business and her mother, the former Ruth Simmons, was a stenographer. While in Dallas following her high school graduation, the pretty teenager was discovered by a Warner Bros. agent and signed. As a girl with no experience, Lynn (sometimes billed as Lynne) was promoted by the studio as a beauty queen and titleholder ("The Cobra Girl," "The Triple A Girl," etc.) while paying her dues in a slew of unbilled sexy starlet bits as chorines, nurses, waitresses, singers and party-girl types. For five long years she toiled obscurely in such WWII-era films as Manpower (1941), Air Force (1943), The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944), Roughly Speaking (1945), Mildred Pierce (1945) and Night and Day (1946).
The studio did little to increase her stature in Hollywood, and she eventually was released from her contract in 1946. After signing with Universal, she finally received her first role of substance in The Time of Their Lives (1946), an above-average Abbott and Costello haunted-house comedy. Following her marriage to the Austro-Hungarian producer Sam Spiegel ("On the Waterfront") in 1948, she acted less frequently, showing up in a few secondary roles, that of a shady lady of mystery in the classic film noir D.O.A. (1949)) probably being her best-remembered one and those in The Flame and the Arrow (1950) and The Mob (1951) being her most prominent.
The Spiegel-Baggett marriage was quite stormy, marred by adultery and nasty fighting, and they separated in 1952. Three years later, she finally received a divorce. With her career now in shambles, Lynn found work as an Arthur Murray dance teacher. In 1954, she was the direct cause of a fatal two-car accident in which a 9-year-old boy, on his way home from a summer camping excursion, was killed. Another young boy in the same car was seriously injured. Overcome by fear and acute anguish, she "blacked out" and was later charged with leaving the scene of an accident and was convicted of felony hit-and-run.
A failed comeback attempt at acting led to severe depression, mental problems and acute substance abuse. She attempted suicide by pills in 1959 before succeeding a year later on March 22, 1960, dying of acute barbiturate intoxication. She had been released from a private sanitarium several weeks earlier. She was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Never close to showing her true potential, Lynn(e) Baggett became one of Hollywood's sadder statistics.- Danna McGraw was born on 31 July 1923 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Cases of Eddie Drake (1952) and Sky King (1951). She died on 14 April 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor
- Music Department
Gino Mattera was born on 14 March 1923 in Taranto, Puglia, Italy. He was an actor, known for Faust and the Devil (1949), Hercules (1958) and The Lost One (1947). He died on 25 April 1960 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Gordon Polk was born on 17 May 1923 in Kootenai, Idaho, USA. He was an actor, known for Inherit the Wind (1960), Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1956) and Steve Canyon (1958). He died on 9 June 1960 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Edward J. Ruppelt was born on 17 July 1923 in Grundy Center, Iowa, USA. He was married to Elizabeth Ann Clay. He died on 15 September 1960 in Long Beach, California, USA.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Nani Fernández was born on 22 February 1923 in Madrid, Spain. She was an actress, known for Don Quijote de la Mancha (1947), Noventa minutos (1950) and ¡Fuego! (1949). She died on 9 November 1960 in Madrid, Spain.- France Asselin was born on 13 March 1923 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France. She was an actress, known for Classe Tous Risques (1960), The Good Time Girls (1960) and The Count of Monte Cristo (1954). She was married to Robert Vernay. She died on 16 November 1960 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.
- Hank Gobble was born on 21 April 1923 in San Diego, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Westerner (1960). He died on 19 May 1961 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- James Parnell was born on 9 October 1923 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor, known for One Step Beyond (1959), U.S. Marshal (1958) and Gun Fight (1961). He was married to Gloria Hamilton. He died on 27 December 1961 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Ron Flockhart was born on 16 June 1923 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He died on 12 April 1962 in Kallista, Victoria, Australia.
- Actor
Jackie Lowe was born on 21 September 1923 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor. He died on 30 August 1962.- Patti Brill was born on 8 March 1923 in San Francisco, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Live Wires (1946), Music in Manhattan (1944) and Sing Your Way Home (1945). She was married to Perry Rigsby Osborne, Max Egbert Albright, Hugo Edward Fredlund and Red Knight. She died on 18 January 1963 in North Hollywood, California, USA.
- Jorge Daponte was born on 5 June 1923 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He died on 9 March 1963 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Alpo Vammelvuo was born on 26 August 1923 in Riihimäki, Finland. He was an actor, known for Tähtisilmä (1955), Pää pystyyn Helena (1957) and Tanssi yli hautojen (1950). He was married to Seija Silfverberg and Eila Pennanen. He died on 27 April 1963.
- Mac Hyman was born on 25 August 1923 in Cordele, Georgia, USA. Mac was a writer, known for No Time for Sergeants (1958), The United States Steel Hour (1953) and Cissie (1959). Mac was married to Gwendolyn Holt. Mac died on 17 July 1963 in Cordele, Georgia, USA.
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Brendan Behan was born on 9 February 1923 in Dublin, Ireland. He was a writer, known for Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), Borstal Boy (2000) and The Quare Fellow (1962). He was married to Beatrice Ffrench-Salkeld. He died on 20 March 1964 in Dublin, Ireland.- Ladislav Ryslink was born on 9 June 1923 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Expres z Norimberka (1954), Hrdinové mlcí (1946) and Tenkrát o vánocích (1958). He died on 14 June 1964 in Plzen, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Music Artist
- Actor
- Music Department
Jim Reeves was one of the best of the "Nashville Sound" style country and western singers. His fame was widespread, not only in the USA, but also in Britain, India, Scandanavia and South Africa. Born in 1923 in Panola County, Texas, Jim after college began to pursue a professional baseball career but was sidelined by an injury to his leg while a pitcher with the Houston Buffaloes. He also for a brief period was a full-time radio announcer. He began his recording career in 1945, and also composed his own songs. The peak of his career came in late 1959-early 1960 with the success of the single "He'll Have To Go", which reached number 2 in the U.S. hit record charts and number 12 in Britain, ultimately reaching three million in sales. After his success he made successful tours of the U.S., Scandinavia and South Africa, where he starred in a film, Kimberley Jim (1963) (released in the U.S. in 1965) and recorded songs in the local Afrikaans language. Jim was well known as the singer with the velvet voice and the gentlemanly manner. Jim had been planning more tours and television appearances at the time his Beechcraft Debonair aircraft went down in bad weather on July 31, 1964, in Hendersonville, Tennessee, near Nashville - taking the lives of Jim and his business manager. Jim's widow, Mary Reeves, kept many of the recordings unreleased after his death in backlog and had them released, little by little over the years, to great success - so much so that younger executives in the record business had to be reminded that Jim has been gone for over 35 years! He even had an album reach Gold status in Denmark in 1999! It is a source of great frustration to Jim's fans and family that his great catalog of music does not get equal airplay today in the U.S. compared with other artists who have gone on such as Patsy Cline. But Jim's legacy still lives on, as one of the greatest voices in recorded music, country or otherwise.- Costume and Wardrobe Department
- Costume Designer
Frank R. Budz was born on 4 May 1923 in Illinois, USA. Frank R. was a costume designer, known for War Party (1965). Frank R. died on 7 September 1964 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Blanca Rosa Otero was born on 23 June 1923 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. She was an actress, known for Águila o sol (1938), The Hawk (1940) and La dama de las camelias (1944). She died on 29 September 1964 in Houston, Texas, USA.
- Magda Tihanyi was born on 28 July 1923 in Cluj, Romania. She was an actress, known for Mágnás Miska (1949). She was married to Zoltán Kõrössy. She died on 19 October 1964 in Miskolc, Hungary.
- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Andrey Babaev was born on 27 December 1923 in Msmna, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR [now Aghbulag, Khojavend district, Azerbaijan]. He was a composer, known for Ya vstretil devushku (1957), Ogonok v gorakh (1958) and A Poet's Fate (1959). He died on 21 October 1964 in Moscow, Russia, USSR [now Russia].- Lilly Christine, a.k.a. "The Cat Girl," was a famous and beloved burlesque exotic dancer and men's magazine model of the late 1940's up until the early 1960's with a mesmerizing stage presence, a wild mane of long peroxide blonde hair, and a simply spectacular 37C-22-35 voluptuous bombshell body. Lilly was born as Martha Theresa Pompender on December 17, 1923 in Dunkirk, New York. Although there were rumors that she had a Norwegian father and a Swedish mother, Christine in reality was actually of Italian-Polish descent. She first began dancing in 1948 and proved to be a major headliner performing her trademark voodoo love potion dance at Prima's 500 Club in New Orleans, Louisiana. Lilly was prominently featured doing her other signature stalking cat dance in the Broadway stage production of the musical revue "Michael Todd's Peep Show," which ran from June 28, 1950 to February 24, 1951 at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City. Moreover, Christine graced the covers and/or posed for centerfolds in such adult publications as "Rogue," "He," "Modern Man," "Gala," "Tempo," and "Cover Girls." She had uncredited minor parts in the movies "Two Guys from Texas," "My Wild Irish Rose," "Two Guys from Milwaukee," and "Irish Eyes Are Smiling." Lilly Christine was still dancing and drawing huge crowds in nightclubs down south when she died from peritonitis at the tragically young age of 41 on January 9, 1965 in Broward County, Florida.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Linda Darnell, one of five children of a postal clerk, grew up fast. At 11, she was modeling clothes, giving her age as 16. At 13, she was appearing on the stage with little theater groups. Her mother encouraged her to audition when Hollywood talent scouts came to Dallas. She went to California and when the studio found out how young she really was, she was sent home and told to come back when she was 15. Her fourth film, Star Dust (1940), was based on this real life experience. It was Star Dust (1940) that Darnell was watching the night of April 9, 1965, at the home of her former secretary, located in Glenview, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. The house caught on fire in the early hours of the next morning and Darnell died that afternoon in Cook County Hospital. The character she played in one of her best known roles, Forever Amber (1947) survived the London fire, the plague and the perils of being the mistress of the English king, Charles II.- Lubomír Mozný was born on 12 April 1923 in Habrúvka, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was a writer, known for Dnes o pul jedenácté (1949), Váhavý strelec (1957) and U nás v Mechové (1960). He died on 28 June 1965 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Bobby was raised in Flatbush, Brooklyn. By the time he was four and a half, he could act, tap dance and play the Saxophone. He made his stage debut in 1930 and film debut at Warner Bros./Vitaphone in 1931. He also reportedly had a bit part in the 1934 Eddie Cantor film, "Kid Millions". He then appeared on Broadway in "Dead End", which opened on October 28, 1935. He left the show in mid-November 1936 to appear in the The Samuel Goldwyn Company film version of "Dead End". Warner Brothers studios signed the all of the Dead End Kids to contracts. At the peak of his career, Bobby made $1,500 a week, owned a $150,000 home in Beverly Hills and was the sole support of his mother, two brothers a sister and a niece. In 1940, Bobby returned to Universal to appear with several other Dead End Kids in The Little Tough Guys series. Later the same year, Monogram featured him in his first East Side Kids film, "Boys of the City". In 1943, Bobby was drafted. He served as a foot soldier in the 97th Infantry until 1945 with his only film appearance being the East Side Kid's "Bowery Champs" (1944), playing himself in a running gag. In 1946, Bobby appeared in the first Bowery Boys picture, "Live Wires". But, after eight films he left because he was forced to take a backseat to Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall. In March of that year, he married Lee, and in 1949, they had a son, Robert Jr. Bobby worked sporadically in film and television afterwards. He tried a nightclub act, then he found additional work as a bartender, door-to-door photograph salesperson and he later worked as an oil driller in Coalinga. In 1957, he and Lee divorced, and in 1958, he declared bankruptcy when he failed to pay alimony and child support. On August 25, 1965, Bobby collapsed at the home of a friend he had been living with. Already a heavy drinker, he was admitted to a Veterans Administration Hospital in Los Angeles for treatment for Cirrhosis of the liver.