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A very good story about Hollywood

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A very good story about Hollywood

Ben Dreyfuss
Mar 9, 2022
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A very good story about Hollywood

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On May 29, 1942 a man who had once been the most famous actor in the world died. John Barrymore took his time kicking the bucket, as his final years became an increasingly dark cautionary tale about the dangers of alcoholism, but when he shuffled off in Hollywood that spring day much of the town that had first grown with him and then ultimately beyond h…

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