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In Part 2 of our two-parter on the demise of the biggest and most pernicious tabloid of the 1950s, we’ll explore what happened after Confidential magazine claimed that redheaded star Maureen O’Hara was caught having sex at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. O’Hara positioned herself the “Joan of Arc” of Hollywood, single-handedly defending a cowardly industry against the existential threat posed by the tabloid. As we’ll see, this is one story where the Kenneth Anger version is more credible than the version related by one of the subjects.
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