Re: RARA-AVIS: answers to big question-Dahlia

From: Stewart Wilson ( stewart@stewartwilson.com)
Date: 31 Dec 2001


Mark Sullivan wrote:
> This reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask. I had always
> assumed that the movie (Blue) took its name from the real life murder
> (Black), but I finally realized that they occurred in the opposite
> order. I know Elizabeth Short always wore black, but was her posthumous
> pseudonym a reference to the movie?

Yes, it was the movie, but not the name was not given posthumously: Short was the 'Black Dahlia' to some LA acquaintances prior to her death.

Stewart

--
# To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to
# majordomo@icomm.ca.  This will not work for the digest version.
# The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 31 Dec 2001 EST