Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969 Paperback – October 29, 2002
by William J. Mann
Wilfred H. Petitt (October 21, 1910 - December 8, 1948), screenwriter of such spectacles as A Thousand and One Nights (1945) and The Bandit of Sherwood Forest (1946), hanged himself aboard his yacht on December 8, 1948, wearing his wife's clothes. The Los Angeles Times reported all the salacious details, and Hedda Hopper dutifully clipped it out and saved it in her files, just in case it might ever come in handy.
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