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L.A. Confidential writer James Ellroy's celebrated true-crime novel of Hollywood in the '40s, The Black Dahlia, finally arrives on the silver screen September 15!
'The Black Dahlia' refers to ambitious, up-and-coming actress Elizabeth Short -- played in the movie by "The L Word" star Mia Kirshner -- a young beauty who was the victim of one of the most brutal crimes ever in Tinseltown. On January 15, 1947, her 22-year-old body was discovered in a vacant lot in a Los Angeles neighborhood, severed in half at the waist and mutilated, her mouth cut ear-to-ear. The crime remains unsolved to this day. Short earned her morbid nickname from the press as a play on the movie title 'The Blue Dahlia,' a then-current film featuring matinee idols Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd
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