THE
QUEEN IS DEAD - The Album Cover
In
1986, actor Alain Delon is on the cover of THE QUEEN IS DEAD. ...
In 1986,
actor Alain Delon appears in only one movie, LE PASSAGE. ...
In LE PASSAGE, Alain Delon
stars as Jean Diaz,
who is killed in a car crash. ...
Likewise, the "queen of hearts," Princess
Diana, will be killed
in a car crash. ...
LE PASSAGE was
the only film ever in which Alain Delon played someone whose name contains a cluster of the five letters
needed to spell
Diana. ...
Jean Diaz
Diana
In 1986, actor Alain Delon appears on the cover
of the album THE QUEEN IS DEAD. In 1986, Alain Delon stars in LE PASSAGE,
playing Jean Diaz, who dies in a car crash.
It was the only time
Alain Delon ever played someone whose name
contains a
cluster of the five letters needed to spell "Diana."
Diana -
queen of hearts -
will die in a car crash. ...
In LE
PASSAGE, Jean Diaz (Alain Delon) enters the afterlife where he learns that
his fatal car crash was computer-programmed by Death. ...
LE
PASSAGE was released the same year as THE QUEEN IS DEAD, the album that
mysteriously foreshadows the death of Princess Diana. ...
In LE PASSAGE, the entity "Death" computer-programmed the car crash that would
kill Jean Diaz (played by Alain Delon). ...
The album whose title announces that
THE QUEEN IS DEAD has a cover photo of actor Alain Delon - a
French man named Alain. ...
The first public announcement of the death of Diana, Queen of Hearts, is made by
Doctor Alain Pavie - a French man named Alain. ...
"Diana, Princess of Wales, died at 4 a.m. ... The death was announced
at 6 a.m. by Dr. Alain Pavie, head of the cardiology department."
- cnn.com
The cover of THE QUEEN IS DEAD is a photo of actor Alain Delon in
the film L'INSOUMIS playing the character Thomas
Vlassenroot. ...
The film concludes with an on-screen message informing audiences
that the
character played by Alain Delon lived from 1933 to 1961. ...
thomas vlassenroot
1933 - 1961
Jayne Mansfield was born in 1933. ...
Princess
Diana was born in 1961. ...
The cover of THE QUEEN IS DEAD shows a film character
who lived from 1933-1961. Jayne Mansfield was born in 1933. Princess
Diana was born in 1961. ...
In
1967, Jayne Mansfield was killed in her mid-30's (34) in a car crash along with
her boyfriend and their temporary driver for the night. ...
In 1997, Princess Diana was killed in her mid-30's
(36) in a car crash along with her boyfriend and their temporary driver for the
night. ...
Those were the only two car crashes ever in which the only
people killed were a
world-famous woman, her boyfriend and their driver. ...
Actress
Jayne Mansfield
and Princess Diana were victims of the only two car crashes in
history in which the only three people killed were a world-famous woman, her
boyfriend and their driver. ...
The memory of Jayne
Mansfield has been revived for decades by her appearance on the cover of
an international best-seller, HOLLYWOOD BABYLON. ...
HOLLYWOOD BABYLON - about Hollywood
scandals - has been reprinted around the world in English, French, German,
Italian, Japanese and Spanish. ...
The first edition ever of
HOLLYWOOD BABYLON was published in 1959 in Paris - in the year of Morrissey's
birth and in the city of Princess Diana's death. ...
In 1975,
HOLLYWOOD BABYLON was updated - including the death of Jayne Mansfield -
and it is the updated edition that is the international best-seller. ...
The first edition of HOLLYWOOD BABYLON (top left) was published in 1959 in Paris - in the
year of Morrissey's birth and the city of Princess Diana's death.
HOLLYWOOD
BABYLON was updated in 1975 - including the story of Jayne Mansfield's death -
and the updated edition became an international best-seller ...
HOLLYWOOD BABYLON wasn't
published domestically in England until 1986. ...
England's 1986
edition of HOLLYWOOD BABYLON is the only one in the world with a green cover. ...
Morrissey and The Smiths released their album THE QUEEN IS DEAD in 1986. ...
THE QUEEN IS DEAD is the only album released by The Smiths or Morrissey
with a
green cover. ...
In 1986, The Smiths released THE QUEEN IS DEAD,
the only album ever by The Smiths or Morrissey that has a green cover.
In 1986, the first edition of HOLLYWOOD BABYLON published in England is
the only one in the world that has a green cover. ...
The cover of THE QUEEN IS DEAD is a photograph of a dead film character named Thomas. ...
In HOLLYWOOD BABYLON, the first scandal recalled is the Paris death of
silent-film star Olive Thomas. ...
In HOLLYWOOD BABYLON, the
sample notice of her Paris death refers to Olive Thomas as a "queen." ...
Princess Diana was famously nicknamed the "queen of hearts" and
she died in Paris.
...
"The message made front page headlines:
OLIVE THOMAS DEAD FROM POISON
Olive Thomas, sprightly Ziegfeld
Follies' queen,
Selznick Pictures star and Mrs. Jack Pickford ...
The cablegram informed the head of Selznick Pictures that his top star had just
been found dead in Paris. ...
The sedate, renowned, Hotel Crillon, on
the Place de la Concorde, was a setting most unlikely for Hollywood's first
scandal."
- HOLLYWOOD BABYLON. Kenneth Anger.
In HOLLYWOOD BABYLON the first scandal reported is
the death of silent-film star Olive Thomas. The death notice refers to
Olive Thomas as a "queen" who is found "dead in Paris."
Thomas is the
name of the dead film-character (played by Alain Delon) on the cover of THE
QUEEN IS DEAD. Princess Diana, famously nicknamed the "queen of hearts,"
died in Paris. ...
The packaging of the vinyl
edition of THE QUEEN IS
DEAD has Morrissey's printed lyrics. ...
Morrissey's first
word for side 1 is "Farewell" and his first word for side 2 is
"Sweetness." ...
That says, "Farewell Sweetness." ...
Olive Thomas was nicknamed "Everybody's Sweetheart." ...
"Graphic stories about the wild parties
that lured Americans to Paris and now Olive Thomas to her death
threatened
to slander the name and reputation of a beloved star the public came to know as
'Everybody's Sweetheart.' "
- OLIVE THOMAS: THE LIFE AND DEATH
OF A SILENT FILM BEAUTY. Michelle Vogel. 2007.
Olive Thomas was nicknamed "Everybody's Sweetheart"
and she died while visiting Paris. ...
Princess Diana was nicknamed the "Queen of Hearts"
and she died while visiting Paris. ...
On THE QUEEN IS DEAD, Morrissey's first word on
side 1 is "Farewell" and his first word on side 2 is "Sweetness." That's
"Farewell Sweetness."
Olive Thomas was nicknamed "Everybody's
Sweetheart" and she died just weeks before the release of her film, EVERYBODY'S
SWEETHEART. ...
Princess Diana's funeral song,
CANDLE IN THE WIND 1997, was a hasty rewrite of a famous tribute to Marilyn
Monroe. ...
Marilyn Monroe was an elite Hollywood actress who died under
suspicious circumstances in the prime of her career. ...
"Marilyn Monroe, troubled beauty who
failed to find Happiness as Hollywood's brightest star, was discovered dead in
her Brentwood home of an apparent
overdose of sleeping pills Sunday.
The blonde 36-year-old actress was nude, lying face-down on her bed and
clutching a telephone receiver in her hand."
- LOS ANGELES
TIMES. August 6, 1962.
Olive Thomas was the first elite
Hollywood actress to die under suspicious circumstances in the prime of her
career. ...
"The cablegram informed the head of
Selznick Pictures that his top star had just been found dead in Paris. ... The
sedate, renowned, Hotel Crillon
on the Place de la Concorde, was a
most unlikely setting for Hollywood's first scandal. On that September
morning the valet used his passkey to
enter the hotel's royal suite
with a breakfast trolley. What he saw froze him in his tracks. A
sable opera cape was spread out on the floor, and on
it lay a nude
young woman. One hand still clutched a bottle of toxic bichloride of
mercury granules. ... The suicide of Olive Thomas made headlines
around
the world and touched off furious controversy. ... What could have made Olive
Thomas kill herself?"
- HOLLYWOOD BABYLON. Kenneth Anger.
The very first example of an elite Hollywood
actress found dead under suspicious circumstances is Olive Thomas.
The
prime example of an elite Hollywood actress found dead under suspicious
circumstances is Marilyn Monroe.
Princess Diana's funeral song, CANDLE IN
THE WIND 1997, is a rewrite of a tribute to Marilyn Monroe. ...
The death of actress
Olive Thomas is the first scandal reported in HOLLYWOOD BABYLON, the best-seller
that has the cover-photo of Jayne Mansfield. ...
The first
Hollywood actress with the surname "Mansfield" was Martha Mansfield who
performed with Olive Thomas in The Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway. ...
Martha Mansfield later signed with Selznick Pictures to be Olive Thomas'
Hollywood understudy less than three months before the death of Olive Thomas.
...
"In June 1920 Lewis J. Selznick signed
Martha [Mansfield] to be groomed as an 'understudy'
for his biggest
star, Olive Thomas (ironically, Thomas would be dead within three months)."
- GOLDEN IMAGES: 41 Essays on Silent Film Stars. Eve Golden.
2001.
Three years later, Martha Mansfield died
when a discarded match ignited the costume she was wearing for a film
titled, THE WARRENS OF VIRGINIA. ...
"Olive [Thomas] was not the only Ziegfeld
girl whose life came to a tragic, early end. ...
Martha
Mansfield was fatally burned on a film set during the making of The Warrens of
Virginia.
A carelessly tossed match ignited her Civil War
costume of billowy hoop skirts and flimsy ruffles
and within seconds
she was engulfed in flames."
- OLIVE THOMAS: THE LIFE AND
DEATH OF A SILENT FILM BEAUTY. Michelle Vogel. 2007.
Martha Mansfield died from being set on
fire with a discarded match while making THE WARRENS OF VIRGINIA. ...
Thirty-five years later, a novelty matchbook mocking Jayne Mansfield
was manufactured in the state of Virginia. ...
Significantly,
it seems the only matchbook ever relating to Jayne Mansfield is the
one manufactured in Virginia. ...
In 1923, the first Hollywood actress ever surnamed
"Mansfield" (Martha) was burned to death when a discarded match ignited the
costume she was wearing for the film THE WARRENS OF VIRGINIA.
In 1958,
Hollywood's most famous "Mansfield" (Jayne) was mocked with a novelty matchbook
that seems to be the only matchbook ever regarding Jayne Mansfield and it was
manufactured in Virginia. ...
Princess Diana was England's
"Princess of Wales." ...
England's first-ever "Princess of Wales" was
named Joan of Kent. ...
On THE QUEEN IS DEAD, the only death mentioned
is Joan of Arc. ...
"and now I know
how Joan of Arc felt
now I know how Joan of Arc felt
as the flames rose to her roman nose"
- BIGMOUTH STRIKES AGAIN. Song 6 on THE QUEEN IS DEAD.
Joan of Arc was burned at the stake,
meaning she was set on fire. ...
In 1923, actress Martha
Mansfield died after being set on fire with a discarded match while making THE
WARRENS OF VIRGINIA. ...
In 1958, actress Jayne Mansfield
was mocked with a novelty matchbook manufactured in the state of Virginia. ...
In Princess Diana's
funeral song, it is famously said that she lived her life "like a candle." ...
Hollywood's first actress surnamed "Mansfield" - Martha Mansfield - died
"like a candle." ...
Princess Diana died in a car
crash along with her boyfriend and her driver. ...
Jayne Mansfield
died in a car crash along with her boyfriend and her driver. ...
Martha Mansfield died like a candle when her costume
was set on fire with a discarded match. In Morrissey's lyrics on THE QUEEN
IS DEAD, the only death is Joan of Arc who was set on fire.
Diana is
famously said to have lived "like a candle" in her funeral song (CANDLE IN THE
WIND 1997). Diana died like Jayne Mansfield - in a car crash along with
her boyfriend and her driver.
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