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It's Thursday, February 2nd,

1922, shortly after 7 a.m.

an unusually cold morning in Los Angeles, California, but the town will heat up soon

enough because a body is about to be found over at the Alvarado Court Apartments, home

to some of the biggest names in Hollywood. You've probably

seen some of them in the moving pictures. Like romantic leading man Doug McClain, who was

fast asleep in apartment 406.

Doug is known as the man with a million dollar smile.

His wife Faith snuggled next to him as starred in films too.

She's certainly pretty enough.

But Doug's career is on fire right now.

Who knows if her turn will ever come.

Just across from the McClanes in 402A is the home of actress Edna Proviance. She's Charlie Chaplin's

leading lady both on and off screen if you get the drift. Edna is blonde and

luminous with the kind of chiseled features the camera loves.

She's still in bed too, getting her beauty sleep.

In 402B, actor and screenwriter Fred Fishbeck is up early again.

He's worried his connection to Fatty Arbuckle is going to cost him his career.

Arbuckle is the most highly paid comedy actor in the business.

Except now he's on trial for the rape and murder of a part-time

actress named Virginia Rapay.

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