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15 Premature Curtain Calls For These Actors

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7. Martha Mansfield

Possibly one of the craziest and most unfortunate deaths on this list, Mansfield’s death in 1923 while on the set of The Warrens of Virginia seems unfathomable today. Dressed in a highly-flammable Civil War-era gown, a passerby flicked a cigarette and set her on fire. She succumbed to complications from severe burns the next day.

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  1. bob

    June 21, 2016 at 2:29 am

    This is incorrect. It was pulling the stingray “out” that killed him … NOT the stings.

  2. Diana

    July 19, 2016 at 11:11 pm

    Tyrone Power looks incredibly like George Clooney Or should I say that George Clooney bears a very strong resemblance to Tyrone Power? Because it’s true. Could there have been a tiger in the wood shed?

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