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January 1, 2012 
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Elizabeth Short
January 15th marks the 65th anniversary of one of the most infamous crimes in US history, and the public’s lingering fascination with Elizabeth Short – the woman who came to be known as ‘The Black Dahlia’. When her horribly mutilated body was discovered in a vacant lot at 39th and Norton in Los Angeles on the morning of January 15th 1947, no one suspected that nearly a century later, people would still be asking the question “Who is the Black Dahlia?” A transient, wannabe actress with few (if any) concrete ties in the city, Short’s movements in the years leading up to her death – and especially in the ‘lost week’ immediately preceding the discovery of her body – have been the subject of much speculation. Ironically, this woman who couldn’t get an acting gig to save her life became the obsession of millions when her photo was plastered across every newspaper in the country, and dozens of books, movies and television specials have expounded their own theories as to who Elizabeth Short was, and who killed her, both of which are still a mystery.
Lucie Arnaz as Elizabeth Short
Of all the films made about the case, only one attempts to portray her as a real person, as opposed to a peripheral character (as in Brian DePalma’s adaptation of James Ellroy’s book of the same name, or the Robert DeNiro/Robert Duvall vehicle True Confessions), even though it is as schmaltzy as they come: the 1975 TV movie Who Is The Black Dahlia?, starring Lucie Arnaz (much to her mother Lucille Ball’s objections!). The film has been long unavailable and sought-out by collectors, but is available in full on the TVTERRORLAND Youtube channel HERE:
Also for an example of Black Dahlia Canadiana, check out Deco Dawson’s experimental short film Elizabeth Short HERE (warning: graphic imagery):
– Kier-La Janisse
About the author:
Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, cialis generic drug publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).
