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Marie Provost did not look her best
The day the cops bust into her lonely nest
In the cheap hotel up
On Hollywood West July 29
She'd been lyin' there
For two or three weeks
The neighbors said
They never heard a squeak
For hungry eyes that could not speak
Said even little doggie's have got to eat
She was winner
The became the doggie's dinner
She never meant that much to me
(But now I see) Oh poor Marie
Marie Provost was a movie queen
Mysterious angel of the silent screen
And run like the wind
The nation's young men steam
When Marie crossed the silent screen
Oh she came out west from New York
But when the talkies came
Marie just couldn't cope
Her public said Marie take a walk
All the way back to New York
Those twin balms didn't help her sleep
As her nights grew long
And her days grew bleak
It's all downhill
Once you've passed your peak
Marie got ready for that last big sleep
The cops came in
And they looked around
Throwing up everywhere over
What they found
The handy work of Marie's little dachshund
That hungry little dachshund
Poor Marie, poor Marie, poor poor Marie
Poor Marie
The day the cops bust into her lonely nest
In the cheap hotel up
On Hollywood West July 29
She'd been lyin' there
For two or three weeks
The neighbors said
They never heard a squeak
For hungry eyes that could not speak
Said even little doggie's have got to eat
The became the doggie's dinner
She never meant that much to me
(But now I see) Oh poor Marie
Mysterious angel of the silent screen
And run like the wind
The nation's young men steam
When Marie crossed the silent screen
Oh she came out west from New York
But when the talkies came
Marie just couldn't cope
Her public said Marie take a walk
All the way back to New York
As her nights grew long
And her days grew bleak
It's all downhill
Once you've passed your peak
Marie got ready for that last big sleep
The cops came in
And they looked around
Throwing up everywhere over
What they found
The handy work of Marie's little dachshund
That hungry little dachshund
Poor Marie, poor Marie, poor poor Marie
Poor Marie
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A few creative liberties taken here. She died in January, not July; Lowe misspells her surname; and her dog didn’t nibble on her corpse, but only sent out an alert by barking. Lowe, as many of us did, took the tall tales in ‘Hollywood Babylon’ as gospel. Still, when the fact becomes legend, print (or record) the legend. Poor Marie.
About the silent film actress Marie Prevost, who was eaten by her pet after being dead for days. True story.