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On the cusp of breaking out in Hollywood, 27-year-old dancer, model, and actress Jean Elizabeth Spangler vanished on Oct. 7, 1949, leaving behind a purse, a mysterious note, and a young daughter. EW takes a look inside the still-open case.
There s a woeful, familiar Hollywood parable about the dark side lurking among the fragrant orange groves and endless sunshine: A young, talented woman seeks fame and fortune, only to find immortality through tragedy. Jean Spangler is one such amaranthine dame, a 1940s aspiring starlet whose unsolved disappearance has more noir twists and turns than an M. Night Shyamalan adaptation of a James Ellroy novel.