Watch: The Death of Hollywood’s ‘Most Beautiful Girl in the World’

This was the the first fatal scandal to strike down a Hollywood starlet.

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ary Pickford once described her as having “the loveliest violet-blue eyes I have ever seen.” Many must have agreed: Olive Thomas rose from modest beginnings to stardom in just a few years. But stars fall, and her abrupt end was horrible, the harbinger of a new, darker age in Hollywood.

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