Phantasmal Crime 35 - The Death of Paul Bern
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
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🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Jean Harlow was known as the "Original Blonde Bombshell." In 1932, she married Paul Bern, a screenwriter, director and assistant at MGM Studios. It was an odd match and would end when Bern apparently committed suicide. Or did he? Could he have been murdered? And by who? Could this be why his spirit is at unrest? Come with us as we explore the mysterious death of Paul Bern!
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| 0:00.0 | listener discretion is advised. True crime can be strangely fascinating. This true crime is odd, macabre, and haunted. |
| 0:22.4 | I'm Diane, your guide into the shadows. Welcome to |
| 0:26.5 | fantasmal crime. |
| 0:29.7 | Gene Harlow was known as the original blonde bombshell. |
| 0:35.0 | In 1932, she married Paul Byrne, a screenwriter, director, and assistant at MGM Studios. |
| 0:41.0 | It was an odd match. and would end when Byrne apparently committed suicide. |
| 0:47.0 | Or did he? Could he have been murdered? And by who? |
| 0:51.0 | Could this be why his spirit is at unrest? |
| 0:54.0 | Come with me as we explore the mysterious death of Paul Byrne. You're going to be here. |
| 1:03.0 | Oh, you know. |
| 1:05.0 | You're not. |
| 1:07.0 | And then. And then. |
| 1:08.0 | And then |
| 1:07.0 | And then |
| 1:08.0 | And then |
| 1:10.0 | And then And then |
| 1:12.0 | And that Paul Byrne was born as Paul Levy in Germany in 1889. The family moved to New York in 1898. |
| 1:30.0 | Paul's father died in 1908 and his mother drowned herself to death in 1920. |
| 1:35.0 | Paul studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and got started acting on the stage in New York. |
| 1:42.0 | He decided to take a stage name and changed |
| 1:44.4 | levy to Byrne. The acting was not going very well, so Byrne decided to jump |
| 1:49.0 | into stage managing and then in the early 1920s he moved to Hollywood. |
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