June St. Clair was a beautiful burlesque star who tragically committed suicide in 1949 She was born Geraldine Margaret Ford on October 1, 1913 in Avon, Massachusetts. Her father, Jeremiah Ford, worked as a janitor. June and her siblings grew up in a very conservative household. When she was a teenager the family moved to […]

Olive Thomas was a Ziegfeld Follies showgirl who became a movie star before her mysterious death at age twenty-five She was born Oliveretta Elaine Duffy on October 20, 1894, in Charleroi, Pennsylvania. Olive was the oldest of three children. Sadly her father,  steelworker, died in a 1906 accident. Soon after the family moved to McKees […]