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Libby - Milt Machlin
Libby - Milt Machlin
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Story of Libby Holman a torch singer in the 1930s in the US. She wanted to be an actress, and worked hard at learning how to act and sing, but her real talent was as a torch singer.
Smith Reynolds, the tobacco heir, who was 20 years old and younger than Libby fell in love with LIbby and pursed her until she agreed to marry him. Smith was one of four children, and the youngest son of R. J. Reynolds, the tobacco millionaire. Smith was a playboy.
She had many lovers, both male and female. She had a wonderful voice for singing the blues. She was a Broadway star of the 1930's, and had a charm that reached both men and women alike. Her friends and lovers included Tallulah Bankhead, Montgomery Clift and Jeane Eagels. She was involved with Montgomery Clift who was many years younger than Libby, and seemed to be looking for a mother figure.
She was pregnant with her son by Smith, when Smith committed suicide with a gun at the family home in North Carolina. The local sheriff investigated the death and tried to get Libby on a murder rap. She was Jewish and not from North Carolina, and the sheriff seemed to have it in for Libby.
Libby was into drugs and drank to much as well. After the death of her first husband, she remarried another younger man, Ralph Holmes, who went off to war in WW II as a pilot. When Ralph came back after the war, he had changed and they separated. Ralph then committed suicide.
Libby's son Topper by Smith Reynolds, was mountain climbing with a teen aged friend in California, when they fell and were both killed. She later adopted and raised two boys. She had one final marriage to a Jewish artist Louis Shanker.
She ended up taking her own life in 1971 at the age of 65 by carbon monoxide poisoning. An interesting woman with some tragic events in her life.
Smith Reynolds, the tobacco heir, who was 20 years old and younger than Libby fell in love with LIbby and pursed her until she agreed to marry him. Smith was one of four children, and the youngest son of R. J. Reynolds, the tobacco millionaire. Smith was a playboy.
She had many lovers, both male and female. She had a wonderful voice for singing the blues. She was a Broadway star of the 1930's, and had a charm that reached both men and women alike. Her friends and lovers included Tallulah Bankhead, Montgomery Clift and Jeane Eagels. She was involved with Montgomery Clift who was many years younger than Libby, and seemed to be looking for a mother figure.
She was pregnant with her son by Smith, when Smith committed suicide with a gun at the family home in North Carolina. The local sheriff investigated the death and tried to get Libby on a murder rap. She was Jewish and not from North Carolina, and the sheriff seemed to have it in for Libby.
Libby was into drugs and drank to much as well. After the death of her first husband, she remarried another younger man, Ralph Holmes, who went off to war in WW II as a pilot. When Ralph came back after the war, he had changed and they separated. Ralph then committed suicide.
Libby's son Topper by Smith Reynolds, was mountain climbing with a teen aged friend in California, when they fell and were both killed. She later adopted and raised two boys. She had one final marriage to a Jewish artist Louis Shanker.
She ended up taking her own life in 1971 at the age of 65 by carbon monoxide poisoning. An interesting woman with some tragic events in her life.
