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Actresses Margaux and Mariel and The Hemingway Curse (Part Two)

cultfilmalley December 11, 2019 2

*contains spoilers Margaux appeared on an April 1996 instalment of tabloid host Geraldo’s show talking about her bulimia and alcoholism at length and the time in the mid-70s when she slit her wrists after a long night drinking at Studio 54. She showed off the scars on her arms. She was talking suicide, something which…

Actresses Margaux and Mariel and The Hemingway Curse (Part One)

cultfilmalley December 11, 2019 1

*contains spoilers The Hemingway sisters Margaux (1954-96 suicide by drug overdose) and Mariel (1961-) are actress sisters and granddaughters of writer Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961 suicide by gunshot). Their family is said to have been affected by mental illness, alcoholism and suicide – something termed The Hemingway Curse. I will use a couple of books in…