Tragic Stories About Old Hollywood's Legendary Actresses

Actress Elizabeth Short loved everything black, including her hair and the elegant dresses she wore. She also favored wearing dahlias in her hair, earning her the nickname "Black Dahlia," according to Find A Grave. But after all, the young starlet had watched her father leave his large family at the age of five, says Biography, and he faked his own death, according to the Black Dahlia web page. Growing up on public assistance, hampered by asthma and lung troubles, why couldn't Short wear black if she wanted to? Besides, she was very pretty, and when her father resurfaced and offered her a home in California, she went. She dreamt of being in pictures.

By the time she was 19-years-old, Short's life had unraveled a bit. In 1943, she got kicked out of her father's home for being lazy, was arrested for underage drinking, and went through a handful of relationships. On January 9, 1947, the last person to see her alive was Robert Manley who spent the night with her and last saw her in a hotel lobby. On January 15, according to FBI files, Short's body was discovered, cut in half at the waist, in the field of an otherwise typical Los Angeles neighborhood. The discovery was quite gruesome and horrifying, to say the least. And in spite of hundreds of leads and interviews, Short's killer has never been found.

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