Wallace Reid (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 6)
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Babylon is a podcast dedicated to exploring the secret and or forgotten histories of hollywood's first century. This week we look at an actor who was one of the biggest stars of his day, but whose legacy has been taken over by his death. Wallace reed was a silent action star, and for a while, he was held up as the ideal image of the american mal. But then an injury led him to opiate addiction. He died while in a facility trying to kick the ediction. And after his death, his wife, in an effort to change the conversation about drug ediction, became a film maker in Hollywood.
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