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Footage from Errol Flynn’s rape trial. A portion of transcripts from Charlie Chaplin’s divorce trial discussing sexual acts. Photos of Jayne Mansfield’s fatal car crash. Autopsy photos from actress Lupe Valdez’s suicide. And of actor Albert Dekker’s--he hanged himself amid his bad reviews, wearing a dress.
They’ll be part of a documondo from MPI Home Video of Oak Forest, Ill., the same folks who presented “Jackie Gleason’s Lost Honeymooners” and the Beatles’ films “A Hard Day’s Night” and “Help!” on videocassette. The new one’s due out this summer, tentatively titled “Hollywood Confidential.”
Producer Ray Atherton will also include “nude shots of stars, stars being released from jail, funerals, various strange, tacky things,” according to Darrell Moore, MPI’s director of original programming. He said all footage “will be in questionable taste.”
Prices are “negotiable” ($300 was paid for the Mansfield photos); the overall budget is $70,000. Contributors don’t like their names involved, Moore added: “They just want the money.”
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