Martha Mansfield was a silent film star and vaudeville actress, but she has gone down in history for meeting a terribly gruesome end.
A Promising Start
Born in 1899, Mansfield caught the acting bug at the age of 14. She fought for a role in a Broadway production of Little Women, and from there on out, there was no slowing down.
Mansfield worked as a model, appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies, and broke into Hollywood in 1920. She was on the fast-track to stardom, but little did she know, she only had three more years to make a name for herself.
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