Let me save you some time. Fast forward to 17 minutes and the narrator finally tells you that Jean Spangler had a note in her handbag saying Kirk can't wait, going to see doctor...she was 3 months pregnant. Kirk Douglas denied being the man referred to in the note and nothing further came of it. They also reveal that Kirk Douglas may have been the man who assaulted Natalie Wood at an audition when she was 16 years old...but nothing is known for sure. You're welcome. 😊

Just because someone's famous, doesn't mean they're not a scumbag.

I remember him on a talk show stating that its ok for men to cheat but its a different matter with women and the audience actually started booing him

Lesson here is: never put people on the pedestal, especially actors .

How about poor Natalie Wood...........Kirk was Evil.

He was my favorite actor while growing up and then some of the horrible things he did to young women came out and I lost all respect for him.

It doesn’t remain unsolved , it remains covered up like the Black Dahlia , which LA covered up effectively

He was a powerful predator. The Studio's Fixers who were part of the Mob, protected him from the law and any gossip. All of the top stars enjoyed this protection that the studios provided. As time goes on and these stars pass away, people feel freer to talk about what they witnessed and experienced with these celebrities.

Hats off to the women ( and children) of Hollywood during the ‘40’s and ‘50’s. What they endured at the hands of producers, actors and other rich and powerful men, handed around like they were playthings, is quite simply unspeakable.. and yet they still gave wonderful, memorable films to the public, put the bravest of faces on things, and never let on. It cost these people their mental health, and in many cases their lives, dying far too young. The best way to avenge these past stars is to reveal the truth of the predators and destroy their ‘star’ status.

I highly doubt Natalie was his only r victim.

In 2006 I was his personal waiter at the Autry museum dinner where he was the guest of honor. I had to watch him constantly for whatever he needed. At one point he looked over at me with the most disgusting disturbing expression I'd ever seen anyone make. I just smiled back at him and I think it made him furious.

This man was a monster to women. He was so evil. That sinister smirk he gleamed showed his immoraless soul. How women found him irresistoble is beyond me.

Why do they wait for the actors to die before they bring out the filthy truth

Rip Natalie Wood

After a hard day on the set of Spartacus, Kirk was exhausted and he had to go to a party for the studios, he didn't bother changing out his costume and make-up and jumped into the back seat of the limo and told the driver not to bother him, so he could sleep. The driver stopped for petrol and to stretch his legs, Douglas noticed the car stopped and went looking for the driver, somehow they missed each other and the driver got back in the car and drove off not wanting to wake up Douglas, not stopping till Los Angeles. Kirk found himself , at a gas station in the middle of nowhere dressed as Spartacus full makeup, with no money, no wallet, and no ID.

Never understood what his appeal was. Not very good looking in my opinion.

More than a passing resemblance between Jean Spangler and the woman known as Black Dahlia, Elizabeth Short just two years earlier. Hollywood is a rough town for ambitious young actresses.

If he assaulted Natalie Wood, I wouldn't be surprised he made that other actress "disappear". The cops were to lazy to investigate her disappearance & sided with him

His legacy is VERY sketchy.

This made it sound like he was the first one to come up with the idea of and act in breaking free of the studio contact system by starting his own company. This completely ignores the earlier history of Hollywood and breakaways like Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin who truly were among the first to do this very thing.

If it's true what he did to Natalie Wood when she was very young, i don't care who he was, he will answer to God.

I think we all know that men in Hollywood in that era and particularly immensely powerful ones like Douglas treated females as play things used and abused to a horrible extent . The idea that the note found in that poor girl's purse could refer to anyone other than Kirk Douglas is ludicrous . Where would she have gone without the purse , and was her disappearance down to murder or suicide . We will never know .There have been so many awful scandals , so many abortions too and so dangerous in those days .

After Kirk Douglas' death, his son Michael was confronted with the allegation that his father had raped Natalie Wood. Michael Douglas was said to have paused, looked away pensively, and then quietly say; "May they both rest in peace." before he walked away. Pretty disturbing to say the least. And it is an unsettling fact that Kirk Douglas was an extraordinary actor and screen presence. But then again, so is Kevin Spacey.

Jean Spangler been missing over 70yrs. This is heartbreaking. What happened to her? Just 26 yrs old & family who loved her.

Kirk is an unusual name, its obvious Hollywood covered for him

I always thought he had a creepy buffoonery to him, along with that annihilating dead eyed stare. Just creepy.

No desire to watch any of his movies after knowing about Natalie Wood.

His son Michael is a cheater too

Now the majority off these actors that have passed are in Helllywood

Kirk Douglas, had a really dark side and was accused of rape. Which was mirrored on his appearance as commander Eddington in "In harms way".

What he did to Natalie Wood was pure evil

Kirk Douglas has always given me the creeps ! And I honestly could never understand all these women who found him to be so attractive ... I mean - to each his own but - Damn ! YUCK !!! 🙄🤮

Natalie's sister told enough of what happened to her when she met Kirk to let you know he was so evil and should have gone to jail. I've despised him since I read what he did. My husband looked almost exactly like him, dimple and all, and he wasn't much either.

I think he was very egotistical, and a narrsistic.

It was insinuated that he forced himself upon Natalie Wood. I tend to believe that.

Title story begins at 17:01

What the teacher did to Douglas was totally wrong and inappropriate, but you need to stop blaming everything Douglas later did on her. Women are not responsible for what men do. MEN are responsible for what men do.

Never liked him or his son Michael. The fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree.

I did not think he was handsome at all.. he reminded me as a creepy guy..

I always disliked him, he played a thug and a bully because that’s what he was. He lived so long because neither God or the Devil wanted him.

There is a common thread with all these Hollywarped predators, isn’t there (rhetorical question)?

He violated Natalie Wood viciously. He was a major predator.

Never considered him at all handsome.

Never idealize entertainers and sports figures.

Natalies mom said she had taken her daughter who was 16 to an audition and who was she to see it was kirk Douglas and he had ask the mother just to drop her off.. Natalie's mom knew what happened and never said nothing 😢😢

That chin could cut diamonds.

They got rid of her because she was pregnant.

I saw him for the first time in Spartacus, & took an instant hatred to him, I watched it through, but purely because at that time there were only three channels & the other two were showing some really boreing sport ! By the end of that film my hatred for him was fixed & I would turn the tv off rather than see his face in anything ! I've never had a reaction that strong to any other actor since, it's nice to know my instincts were right after all those years !

Kirk Douglas gave Amy Irving a hard slap in the movie The Fury and I knew right then that he was evil. And I was only a kid when I watched that movie. The movie also had Israeli propaganda so everyone attached to it was off.

Excellent as always. I am however, still bothered about the disappearance of Jean Spangler. I am very familiar with the case and would like to see it solved. If that purse of Jean's is still in evidence somewhere, or even the note itself, there is a small chance that the DNA of the person who made Jean disappear might be on either. I know it is a long shot, but doesn't it seem wrong that Jean Spangler's case has never been solved? She was a good girl and a very nice young lady too. She should have had the chance to make it big in Hollywood too. Missing person cases bother me, and this is one of the ones that really should be looked at again and hopefully, solved. If it was Kirk Douglas, that would be an explosive revelation. There had to be other Kirk's in the Los Angeles area at the time, but considering that they were recently working on the same film together, it seems a little far fetched. Thank you, for another excellent video and synopsis.

Great artists are not always nice people. People are more complicated than good or bad.

This facts are new to me , and are absolutely shocking !

See the Scott Michaels DEARLY DEPARTED video about the vanished Jean Spangler. Indeed, all ever found of her was that purse in Griffith Park. Like Scott, I can't reconcile that no other trace of this woman was found, after intensive searches by hundreds of police in the park. They find missing dogs and kids, but nothing of a vanished film actress. A friend of mine, Dick Anderson, worked w/Kirk in THE STORY OF THREE LOVES. Kirk played a trapeze artist in the segment titled EQUILIBRIUM. Dick was Kirk's catcher, Jacques, given screen credit as Kenneth Anderson, and had speaking parts w/Kirk. He said Kirk worked hard to learn the flying act, which he had taken over from Ricardo Montalban in an MGM shakeup. He actually did 3 simple tricks, called "girl tricks". Dick also said Kirk had a dark, brooding, silent side, and was consumed with his pursuit of the so-far unworldly Pier Angeli. Natalie Wood's attack occurred at the Chateau Marmont Hotel, and reportedly lasted some 6 hours. All ever said is that the man was a famous movie star, which her sister Lana now insists was Kirk Douglas. As stated in this clip, what is most likely may never be verified.

I never could stand him . . . to me he was nasty and arrogant!

It is interesting that KD has a reputation difficult to work with, as was his good friend and comtemprary A-Lister Burt Lancaster.

I seem to remember Shirley Temple all but accused Kirk Douglas as the person who abused her when she was still a teenager.

Jean Spangler had been in a custody battle with her ex husband, he would be a prime suspect.

Teenaged Natalie Wood's mother arranged the interview with Douglas, and she, along with her other, younger, daughter, waited in the car while Natalie "auditioned". The "audition" took a very long time, and Natalie finally came stumbling out to the car, clearly having been asaulted...

Douglas was a thug.

his "talent" was way over shadowed by his ego . lots of women liked him {almost as much as he himself did... imho} , me not so much , as glimpses of his ego always became apparent to me in his movies .

"17.56, doesn't Kirk look like tennis🎾 player....Boris-Becker?!"🎾🎾🎾🎾🎾

There's nothing but evil in the city of fallen angels.

Fascinating. Great job, thanks!

Poor Ms Spangler, to think her case just went cold. I wonder if police ever spoke to her doctor or friends to see if she had a thing with KD?

I remember watching some old tv talk show kirk talked about how he went home with Joan it was around the time her daughter Christina book he described how the inside of her house and how her wondered around her house and saw the children asleep and that they were bound up tied down in their beds like Christina discribed in her book when asked what did he do he said he crawled out a window since Joan had looked the doors and had the keys

He gave me the creeps a scary vibe!

That was a fun listen. Good job.

Very interesting - but why so many clips that have NOTHING to do with Kirk Douglas. So many clips of Lauren Bacall films. WHY?

My favorite movie of his, is The Final Countdown. My late Mom's favorite movie of his, was his favorite movie Lonely Are the Brave.

Hollyweird has always had these monsters. Sucks because some of my favorite actors, actresses and musicians are pitiful horrible people. Once i found out about them i can't see them in the same light. Big deal he ended the blacklist after possibly getting away with murder or having something to do with it and raping a very young Natalie Wood. Natalie's mom should be ashamed bringing her and her sister around trying to make money off of them. Today we still have big time jerks that don't get treated the same way others do like Alec Baldwin. A real winner there. It all starts at the top though. Look at our present government. Pretty sad state of things. Good job revealing these things. Only the good die young i guess.

Had the privilege of working security detail at the Douglas home when he passed some of found it found it strange that a condition of the sale of the home the new owner couldn't tear up the backyard for renovation could a secret be hiding there?🤔

He might have given his money away at the end but what a creep

Kirk Douglas was a very good actor and gave very powerful performances in many excellent films .... whatever else is implied.

He will answer to God.

Pigs will be pigs

He son followed in his footsteps.

I remember those desks! We had them in PS6 in The Bronx!

Movies and even the popcorn are a paycheck. You get to hear people on their cellphones, the screens are tiny and the sound earsplitting. For this, actors get rich and then share the anguish of fame on a talk show. Curl up with a good book.

Never meet your heroes and don’t idolize anyone.

I love how Lauren Bacall set up another women to marry an abuser like Douglas! She has a lot in common with Ghidlaine!

I was never a fan of him. Watched only few movies he played in. I never found him to be good looking either. Something about him turned me off. Never knew what it was. But reading this about him, certainly turned me off completely. The few times I watched his movies, was when my husband wanted to watch him in the movies. I sure hope that he repented of all his wrong doings before he died. Some of these movie stars have a very dark way about them. The are charming when the preform, but that is their profession. I'm actually not to shocked hearing this. I knew from the beginning somethings was off with him.

I read his autobiography then gave it to my husband to read. He said he never read so much self pitying whining - a whine-butt.

I never understood his appeal. I never found him attractive or even a particularly good actor. He gave off a slimy vibe. That whole Douglas clan have a history of sex addiction, violence and substance abuse. When I heard he was the one who violently raped and assaulted Natalie Wood, it confirmed a lot of suspicions I always had about him. So when his son and grandson came out with addiction issues, I wasn't surprised in the least.

Not many people named Kirk…….

Jean Spangler: Going by her note, and the fact that she was three months pregnant, and she was going to see a doctor, it sounds as though she was going for an abortion. That's why she couldn't wait. Her mom was away but probably slated to come back soon. If things went wrong, as they sometimes did, the doctor might have "disappeared his mistake". Her family said she didn't have a friend named Kirk. Maybe they didn't think fellow actor.

Kirk was both a great actor and a misogynist. Like many people, you get the good with the bad. The problem with Kirk is that he was dangerous to women - how dangerous is debated still to this day.

I always thought there was a sinister side to him

Around 15:30 all I could think of was the South Park line, "I broke the dam." I mean, the narrator says it right around the point where the "I'm Spartacus" scene is playing. 😆

Not a "real man" at all. Total narcissist. Cruel should have been his name. He was given a false narrative of being a great guy, great actor, etc......could not be futher from the truth .......

Some women are attracted to " dangerous men". I always thought Kirk Douglas had a 'dangerous aura' about him. While I can see and recognize masculine beauty in him, I'm not attracted to that 'dangerous-ness' at all.

Thank you for sharing. 💞🌟🕊🌺💯 I never thought that he was that good looking.

He wasn't acting In Harm's Way.

I was never a huge fan of Kirk Douglas. His acting was overboard, but that's my opinion and nobody else has to like it.

He had her, the threat, neutralized.

Could never watch this man just never liked him and his Son is just like him .

Good documentary on Kirk Douglas.

Natalie Wood🙏

Kirk Douglas was my favorite actor.

Great video

Firstly, I don't see how he ever became a "heartthrob." I don't find him attractive at all at any age. When he was an old man he tried to hit on me. I was walking down Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs on a sidewalk. When he saw me he lit up like a light. Big smile clear across his face. He stopped to talk but I just smiled and kept on going. When I looked over my shoulder there he was turned around with that same smile watching me walk away. So yes, I totally believe he was a major womanizer. As far as the actress who disappeared goes, I find it highly suspicious. It sounds as if he may have impregnated her and made her disappear. If true, womanizing was the least of his crimes. 🧚✨💫