S2 Ep34: Ramon Novarro: The Life and Death of a Screen Idol

Crimes of the Centuries

Amber Hunt and Audioboom

History, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.7 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

As Hollywood found its footing at the turn of the 20th century, so did a handsome young artist who'd soon be known around the world as Ramon Novarro. In his heyday, the Mexican-born actor was mentioned alongside leading men like Rudolph Valentino. But with the discovery of his battered body decades after his star had faded, Novarro became better known for the personal life he'd spent his whole life trying to keep private.

"Crimes of the Centuries" is a podcast from the Grab Bag Collab exploring forgotten crimes from times past that made a mark and helped change history.

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0:00.0	Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking that they earn the label crime of the century.
0:14.8	But the stories that made headlines in decades past are necessarily remembered today.
0:22.6	I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist and author.
0:26.4	In each episode of this show, I'll examine a case that's maybe less known today, but
0:32.3	was huge when it happened.
0:35.4	This is crimes of the centuries.
0:41.0	When police arrived at 3110 Laurel Canyon Boulevard in Studio City, California, they found
0:56.3	a disturbing scene.
0:58.2	The home's owner and the elderly man who lived alone was dead in his bedroom.
1:03.0	It was clear he'd been viciously beaten, his house appeared ransacked, his body tortured.
1:09.4	The man had been found face up and nude atop his bed, with his hands tied behind his back
1:14.7	with electrical cord.
1:16.6	This would have been a sad scene no matter who the victim had been, but there was something
1:21.2	extra heart-rending when his identity became known.
1:25.3	He was known worldwide as Raymond Navarro.
1:28.6	Once a top box office draw during the golden age of Hollywood and the first Mexican heartthrob,
1:35.0	the industry had ever produced.
1:36.9	They didn't tell him we were speaking to you from the box baby on the theater here at
1:40.0	my fortune, other street in Brooklyn.
1:42.0	Raymond Navarro, the internationally famous Fortune Sixty stars, is it feelings?
1:46.4	This is from a radio broadcast of a stage performance in 1937.
1:51.1	I don't believe other scenes are such a jam house here.
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