But Arthur never talked about her USMC service. Did she think it would hurt her career in liberal Hollywood? Or did something bad happen while she was serving, and she didn’t want to revisit it? No one really knows.
But Arthur never talked about her USMC service. Did she think it would hurt her career in liberal Hollywood? Or did something bad happen while she was serving, and she didn’t want to revisit it? No one really knows.
She was brutally raped by one of her superior officers when she was in the Marines. She contracted a sexually transmitted disease and was discharged as a result. She was too traumatized to report it.
https://www.classicactresses.org/2019/12/bea-arthurs-secret-rape.html
Tikes! If not for the little USMC pins, that could be a mugshot or booking foto.
Jennifer Lawrence looks her!