Chaplin, it seems, sent a proportion of his money to Switzerland. People like Sennett, Chaplin, and W.C. Fields retained and concealed their money in obscure U.S. Mabel was, we can be certain, much wealthier than we suspect today. She had come to regard Mabel as a curse on the family.Īll of the revelations about Julia Benson have, somewhat, blackened her name, although Mabel was, in her lifetime, happy for her friends and supporters to have a share in her wealth. Of course, a large amount of Mabel memorabilia had been destroyed by Mabel’s sister-in-law, following the suicide of her husband, Claude Normand in the 1940s. A trunkful of Mabel memorabilia had been sold off before Stephen Normand arrived at the house. ![]() Bizarrely, she had also retained blood-stained nightdresses from Mabel’s last days at the sanatorium. As Stephen Normand discovered when he stayed at the house, Mrs Benson had almost as many of Mabel’s possessions there, as the Normand family had. Marilyn Slater, who often stayed at Mrs Benson house while a child, has claimed that the place was a shrine to Mabel. He points out that Mrs Benson was never a beneficiary of Mabel’s will, although the Normand family allocated $10,000 ($200,000 today) to her from the estate money, for services rendered. Julia Benson was always a friend and private nurse to Mabel, although Mabel’s great nephew, Stephen Normand, has stated that Julia was simply an employee. Both Julia and Mabel had realized this would be her last day, and Mabel’s last words were, reportedly, “Julie, don’t leave me.” Epilogue Julia was present in the room, when Mabel breathed her last at 2:25 a.m. By this time Mabel required a lot of support. ![]() Richard Jones, Julia Benson attended the Hal Roach Studios when Mabel was on set. In the following years Mabel became sicker and sicker, and along with Mabel’s new husband, Lew Cody, and F. Notably, Julia made many comments, in support of Mabel, during the Taylor and Dines affairs. “I found a little girl with pigtails, in bed wearing a flannelette nightdress” she later said. When Julia first visited Mabel, she was astonished as to how small she was. This seems to have occurred at the end of 1918, whilst Mabel was making ‘Sis Hopkins’ for Goldwyn. One of these selected patients was Mabel Normand, who had been badly burned by a mustard plaster that had been applied to treat a chest infection. On completing her training, Julia was assigned special duties, caring for the clergy, and other selected patients. While living at the convent, she trained for nursing at the hospital. Consequently, she was transferred to a convent in Los Angeles that was connected with a hospital. However, while still a novice, it was decided that Julia would be better suited to social service. Around the age of 14, Julia began training as a nun. She’d been brought up in New York, but was sent away at a young age to a convent. Julia was a few years older than Mabel, and almost the same age as Charlie Chaplin. Once the Farscape bonus episode is done we will be returning to the regular Stargate shows beginning with the Atlantis episode “The Return” and Miles joined us for that.Julia Benson (nee Brew) was a catholic nun, who, in around 1918, became Mabel’s part-time nurse. It was just Alan and myself this week and next week we have the final bonus episode and we’ll be looking at Farscape, we’ll let you figure out the episode in question but it’s a good one so we hope you join us for that. The beauty of this episode is that we are left not quite knowing the actual truth, there is evidence that it’s all in his imagination but also we are presented with enough evidence to believe he is the victim of a conspiracy and fighting for his life. It could be that once alone his overactive imagination kicks in combined with the smothering of his mother and her talk of “quarantine” all comes to a head and this alien invasion emerges to pretty much ruin his day. Sick is a season two episode of The Haunting Hour and stars Garrett Ryan as Alex the young lad who talks to himself way too much, has rather bad personal habits and seems to be quite a handful and may be a little too pampered and spoiled for his own good. It may be a case of him being delusional thanks to the illness and medication or maybe everything that is happening is exactly what it appears to be, has an alien lifeform taken residence in his home, do the government know all about it and the messages coming from the tv are genuinely offering support and a lifeline is his battle to save the world. ![]() Here we are again for another bonus episode, we are paying a second visit to the world of RL Stine and The Haunting Hour series for the episode “Sick” which tells the tale of a young lad who is feeling under the weather and finds himself alone in his home as some strange events take place in and around the house.
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