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1247 W 37th Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90007
Inglewood Park Cemetery
Inglewood, Los Angeles County, California, USA
J. Marquis Busby (November 12, 1900 - March 8, 1934) was a bright-eyed, eager young reporter who lived with his widowed mother in Los Angeles.
Busby was born at Nokomis, IL, the son of Charles O. Busby (1866-1927), member of a pioneer family in Central Illinois, and Nellie L. Busby (1869-1959). He moved to Southern California with his parents, where he entered Manual Arts High School and later the University of Southern California.
After college, he began writing for the Los Angeles Times, as a member of the drama department and remained about three years. He moved over to the Examiner and finally to Photoplay and the Universal syndicate. Just in his early 20s when he began interviewing the stars, Busby was taken under the wing (and maybe the sheets, according to rumors) of William Haines and Edmund Goulding. "The marrying age for a man is 20 to 25," the 29 years old Billy Haines told Marquis Busby. "After that he becomes a little more "picky," less inclined to compromise between sheets and blankerts and take sheets." Busby's articles are intelligent and a bit sly, and he should have had a long and brilliant career. But he died in 1934 at age 31 of scarlet fever.
He died on March 11, 1934, at his home, 1247 West Thirty-seventh Drive, following a short illness. He was stricken with what was diagnosed as scarlet fever a few days before and failed to rally after a blood transfusion.
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